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All sorts of women can be musical – or not – in Austen’s novels, it tells us something about each of them

Persuasion is now available to watch on Netflix

After ITV’s Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled, Rose Williams said goodbye to her character Charlotte Heywood. But then the fans mobilised, with petitions, letter writing and sand art, and the producers had a change of heart

A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.

Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

There’s a rift in the world of romance novels between ‘Bridgerton’ stans and purists committed to a questionable version of historical accuracy, writes Amanda Whiting

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

Likable Dakota Johnson stars as the 19th century heroine reunited with the suitor she jilted.