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Today in History: Jane Austen released her novel Emma on this day in 1815. "The novel centres on Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures." (Britannica) If you've seen the 1995 movie Clueless with Alicia Silverstone, then you've seen a modern adaptation of Austen's Emma. The most recent Emma movie with Anya-Taylor Joy was disappointing to me, and I much preferred the 1996 Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow. I am an Austen fan and my wife and I did an entire Jane Austen movie marathon one weekend a few years ago...and I still have not seen every Jane Austen film adaptation.
A few of the movies we've seen are watchable for free on Youtube, but who knows how long they will last there.
The classic 1995 movie Sense & Sensibility is available to stream for free on Starz. Emma is on HBOMax.
Oh, and don't make the mistake of calling Jane Austen's stories "Victorian." Austen died 2 years before Queen Victoria was born. All of Jane Austen's novels are set against the background of daily life in English "Georgian" society at the turn of the 19th century.
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