Persuasion
Jul 27, 2022
3 minutes
by Jane Austen
N audible groan rose up in certain quarters at news of the dramatisation of yet another Jane Austen novel. What, not Austen again? The latest film of was launched on Netflix this month to decidedly lukewarm reviews, although these could reasonably be put down to critic fatigue and wonderment at why the works of many other classic authors remain so neglected. Undeniably, however, Austen remains box office. Prof John Mullan, an authority on the 18th- and 19th-century novel, asserts that only Shakespeare and Dickens among other English writers ‘can rival her
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