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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ review: Writing and living her own private rom-com

The Paris bookseller in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” likes her men in the Darcy mold, and writer-director Laura Piani obliges.

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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’: Modern love with a Regency twist

Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance.

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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: It’s Not Me, It’s Jane

Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy. So no wonder filmmakers have tackled copious direct adaptations of Austen’s novels — many of which are modern classics of cinema,

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Did Jane Austen's Sister Really Burn the Author's Private Letters?

Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra. History has not ...

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‘Miss Austen’ Ending Explained: What Is Addison’s Disease? What Was Jane Austen’s Cause Of Death?

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ultimately chose to stay with her ailing sister. Jane Austen did in fact die young ...

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Behind the Scenes with Miss Austen’s Synnøve Karlsen

Miss Austen’s rising star Synnøve Karlsen opens up about her role as Jane Austen’s younger sister and what she learned on set ...

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‘Miss Austen’ review: The mystery of Jane Austen’s burned letters

Decades after Jane Austen’s death ... PBS Masterpiece series “Miss Austen” offers a theory: Much later in life, Cassie decided they were just too private. Too revealing.

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