Posts Tagged ‘Lost in Austen’

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the vexing but also adorable Mr Bennet. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Donald Sutherland (2005), Benjamin Whitrow (1995), Moray Watson (1980), Edmund Gwenn (1940) and Hugh Bonneville (lost in Austen).

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the ‘oddity’ that is Mr Collins. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Tom Hollander (2005), David Bamber (1995), Malcolm Rennie(1980), Melville Cooper (1940) and Guy Henry (Lost in Austen).

In Lost in Austen, Mr Wickham’s character is redeemed in a bold but fairly plausible way, at least on first viewing. Amanda Price discovers that Georgiana Darcy is not as innocent as Jane Austen would have had us believe. After refusing Georgiana’s sexual advances toward him, Mr Wickham chooses to hide this truth and [...]

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all-time Top 10 Darcy screenshots for your drooling pleasure. We have Matthew Macfayden (2005), Colin Firth (1995), David Rintoul (1980), Laurence Olivier (1940) and Elliot Cowan (Lost in Austen 2008.) They’re in no particular order, so we’ll leave it up to you to rank them according to your preferences!

Lost in Austen is a British Pride and Prejudice-inspired TV series that aired in 2008. A runaway success in the UK and overseas, it is available internationally on DVD and will be made into a movie in 2011, although details about the Lost in Austen movie are disconcertingly scarce. Excitingly, however, it looks set to [...]

As you may have been aware, it was recently announced that the wonderfully distracting ITV series Lost in Austen is to be made into a movie. The series brings every Pride and Prejudice fan’s dream to life, by transporting Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) directly into Longbourn, the Bennet family home. Here she lives through [...]