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‘Persuasion’: Breezy romance updates Jane Austen novel with modern language and rhythms

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

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 13, 2022

Review: Dakota Johnson Brings a Modern Spark to ‘Persuasion’

The new adaptation of "Persuasion," coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 12, 2022

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2022

Persuasion star Ben Bailey Smith says he ‘couldn’t give two s***s’ about film’s critics

Film has not gone down well with Jane Austen traditionalists

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Persuasion by Jane Austen audiobook review – Juliet Stevenson stars in this reading of ‘the perfect novel’

Actors including Tim Brierley and Sorcha Cusack narrate this version of the great writer’s final novel originally created for radio

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2022

Persuasion film review: Just so tame

Modern Austen adaptations have done justice to the author’s wit. This one, not so much

Evening Standard · Jul 8, 2022

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2022

Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music

Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about ten. Her family inherited some of her books of sheet music, including hundreds of manuscripts in her hand as well as printed music.

The Conversation · Jul 3, 2022

Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby review – a page-turning Austen romp

This fictionalised life of the governess employed by Jane Austen’s brother wittily toys with the conventions of the genre

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022