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I’ve read maybe two or three books that can be classified as reimaginings of Austen novels. I’ve watched many more. And guess what?<\/p>\n
I’m a nerd who loves Jane Austen retellings!<\/p>\n
This comes as a big surprise to absolutely nobody ever.<\/p>\n
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There are some really well-done webseries based on Austen’s works. Like, would 10\/10 recommend to everybody. I mean, could they be more diverse? Sure! But they were faithful and well-acted adaptations, and I stan.<\/p>\n
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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRe-tellings, of course, can be hit or miss. They’re either really well-done, or they completely just miss the mark. In these cases, well, I’ve been lucky in finding good ones.<\/p>\n
What about you? Any Austen re-tellings you adore? Any you think were completely horrible and wish you could erase from your memory?<\/p>\n
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I’ve read maybe two or three books that can be classified as reimaginings of Austen novels. I’ve watched many more. And guess what? I’m a nerd who loves Jane Austen retellings! This comes as a big surprise to absolutely nobody ever. There are some really well-done webseries based on Austen’s works. Like, would 10\/10 recommend to everybody. I mean, could they be more diverse? Sure! But they were faithful and well-acted adaptations, and I stan. I can’t say I’ve ever come across a book re-telling of Northanger Abbey – and I can’t say I’ve ever read the source material – but there have been two webseries based on it that I have adored. Northbound was the first that I saw, and the acting was natural and the chemistry was off the charts, and I fell in love. The Cate Morland Chronicles takes the characters in a little bit of a different direction, and it was a lot more diverse in casting, and equally as fun. Henry\/Catherine are quickly becoming one of my favourite ships because of these two webseries. There are probably a lot of books that can be said to be loosely based on Pride & Prejudice, but at the moment I’m blanking on them. Instead, of course I’m going to talk about The Lizzie Bennet Diaries! It spawned a lot more webseries adaptations than I think anybody expected, it was fun, and I was watching it from my lecture halls and writing meta. Persuasion is another story that adapts really well. I have yet to read the novel, but I read For Darkness Shows The Stars by Diana Peterfreund and it was AMAZING. I also think Persuasion will adapt into a Bollywood movie really well? I’m waiting for the day that happens. Re-tellings, of course, can be hit or miss. They’re either really well-done, or they completely just miss the mark. In these cases, well, I’ve been lucky in finding good ones. What about you? Any Austen re-tellings you adore? Any you think were completely horrible and wish you could erase from your memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[248,429,428,59],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instant-to-read","tag-instant-to-read","tag-instant-to-read-the-austen-edition","tag-the-austen-edition","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}