Career and Successes

Jane Austen is a well know and much enjoyed English author. Even though she just published six novels, her works have become the basis for true romance stories since early 1800’s. Jane published her first novel, Sense and Sensibility in 1811. She followed up with Pride and Prejudice in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, Emma in 1815. She also had two of her novels published after her death. They were Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in 1817. She also had many minor writings which include Juvenilia. Juvenilia were mainly written for her family’s enjoyment before she started writing her novels. Several were incomplete and had miscellaneous fragments (Jane Austen Biography).
Her novels have been turned into great motion pictures. The first release was a TV production in 1938 of Pride and Prejudice. In 1995, Sense and Sensibility was made into a film. In 1996, Emma was made, and then in 1998 Mansfield Park was released. In 1995 Pride and Prejudice, TV mini-series was a successful adaption and was viewed by over 10 million British views. There have been many releases and remakes of Jane Austen’s novels into both movies and TV series. Since the days of motion pictures, screenplay writers, directors and actors have tried to portray the spirit and essence of Jane Austen’s work with some being successful while others falling short (Jane Austen Info Page).



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