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"Jane Austen" (16 results)
Four-part adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Emma Woodhouse persuades new friend Harriet Smith that she is too good for her suitor, the farmer Robert Martin.
First of six of this dramatisation of the classic novel by Jane Austen. Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is removed from her impoverished Portsmouth h...
Five-part television series adapted from Jane Austen's classic novel. When Mr Bingley comes to live in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet considers him...
Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world.
Film adaption of Jane Austen's novel about the enduring power of love. England 1814. Having been ''persuaded'' several years earlier to reject the prop...
Dramatisation of Jane Austen's novel. Mrs Dashwood is devastated when her husband dies. His estate and fortunate are bequeathed by law to his so...
Earliest existing BBC dramatisation of Emma (from 1972).
Earliest existing BBC dramatisation of Pride and Predjudice.
Dramatised for radio in six parts by Denis Constanduros.
Colin Firth stars as Mr Darcy in this iconic BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by writer Andrew Davies. The arrival of the wealthy Mr Bingley ...
The earliest BBC dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility. Mrs Dash wood and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are faced with the prospect o...
Tracey Childs plays 16-yr- old Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience and Irene Richard plays her sister Elinor, outwardl...
Wealthy Emma Woodhouse needs a new companion when her beloved governess Miss Taylor gets married. She settles on Harriet Smith, and becomes determined to make a ...
Fanny Price and her wealthy cousin Edmund seem a perfect match, but their lives on a country estate are complicated by the arrival of the glamorous Cra...
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet ...
Five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions. Keira Knightley stars alon...
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