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When I was a junior in high school, I came to the startling realization that I had been quite deprived of the classics...which made me sad (#nerdproblems). Anyway, that summer, instead of being a normal teenage girl tanning and swimming and watching tv, I was curled up in our living room proverbially holding up my pinky and wearing a corset (i.e.: making my way through all the Jane Austen novels). It began my love affair with all things Austen, and well really, England in general. But Pride…

TD and I toddled up to 23rd Street to see The Young Victoria , the new movie starring Emily Blunt about the early life of Queen Victoria o...

How a Minor Character Controls the Story’s Action: Jane Austen’s Use of George Wickham On Monday, I interviewed our favorite Austen bad boy, Mr. George Wickham. Actually, I held a celebrity interve…

There are so many versions of Jane Austen's books available to watch on the big and little screen, that it would take more viewing time than I currently have to do justice to all of them. But over the years, I've given it my best shot! Today's post is all about Pride and Prejudice and some of it's screen adaptations. My love affair with Jane on the screen began during my HSC year when our local ABC TV replayed the 1980 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice starring Elizabeth Garvie and David…

Rupert Friend (George Wickham) - "Pride and Prejudice" (2005)

Elizabeth with Mister Wickham - deleted scene

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina (2012).

If the majority of people are to be believed, the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is The One. The definitive, one, the perfect one. It is the reason Colin Firth has a career, and the rea…