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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

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

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

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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

Dakota Johnson feels 'incredibly lucky' to star in 'dream' Jane Austen film

It's the Summer of Dakota as Fifty Shades Star Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth and the updated adaptation of Jane Austen's love story Persuasion - and she says she bares her soul in every role

Daily Mirror

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

Persuasion review – a travesty of Jane Austen

Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

The Guardian - UK

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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

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

Persuasion film review: Just so tame

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

Evening Standard

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

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

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

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

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A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

The Independent UK

Like ‘Bridgerton’? Wait till you catch ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’

Years before “Bridgerton” and the Regency-era fashion moment it helped inspire, director Emma Holly Jones was dreaming of an early 19th century romantic comedy with a diverse cast

The Guardian - UK

Chris Evans may need to rein in TFI Friday reboot

He suggests that the chat and music show could be livestreamed, but will celebrities today be as much fun?

The Independent UK

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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The Conversation

Art, freedom and drag invasions: the history of New York's Fire Island as a gay sanctuary

Recently screened at the Sydney Film Festival, Fire Island is a rom-com inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the film breaking traditional conventions to feature gay romance as the plot.

Los Angeles Times

How queer Asian American rom-com 'Fire Island' became summer's sexiest breakout hit

Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang remember that first trip, years ago, to the beachy New York LGBTQ resort that would inspire the Hulu rom-com, "Fire Island." Before playing BFFs Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang) in the film, who find unexpected romances while vacationing at the Long Island party destination,…

The Times of India

A visit to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England

I was visiting my grandmother in England when we planned a day in Bath with my best friend who was doing a Ph.D. in Southampton. Both of us being bookworms, we were excited for the Jane Austen Centre. We booked our tickets in advance online, though I looked it up…

Evening Standard

Why does the trailer for Netflix’s Persuasion adaptation feel like a personal affront?

The new trailer for Netflix’s Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson frames heroine Anne Elliot as a quippy, messy rom-com lead - a move which undercuts everything that’s so moving about the original novel

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: ‘Fire Island’ star Margaret Cho on wearing all white and experiencing a truly crappy situation

The Hulu romantic comedy “Fire Island” takes Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and puts a modern gay spin on it, both fizzy and incisive about classism and racism. Margaret Cho co-stars in a role that is part den mother, part provider of vacation housing.

Daily Mirror

Netflix unveil trailer for Jane Austen drama Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson

Persuasion is an upcoming period drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, and stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Richard E. Grant

The Conversation

Five books to read while in the Derbyshire countryside

The Derbyshire countryside, in England’s East Midlands, is a region that has inspired writers – both classic and contemporary. The juxtaposition of rolling hills, stark moorland and craggy summits play backdrop to numerous novels in a variety of genres.

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