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Persuasion: 11 stately homes from TV and film you can visit in real life

From Bridgerton to Lara Croft, stately homes are a fixture in TV and cinema

The Independent UK

Netflix Persuasion adaptation starring Dakota Johnson jettisons Jane Austen’s class concerns in favour of contemporary appeal

Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion stars 50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson as a messy millennial who swigs wine from the bottle while lusting after her ex.

ABC News

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘torture’ to watch and ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK

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Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: Why Netflix’s Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot. But it's a distinctly modern rom-com in terms of tone.

The New Daily

Sanditon star Rose Williams: ‘It’s the fans who saved the show’

After ITV’s Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled, Rose Williams said goodbye to her character Charlotte Heywood. But then the fans mobilised, with petitions, letter writing and sand art, and the producers had a change of heart

Evening Standard

'Crawdads,' 'Persuasion': Movies to see (or skip) this weekend

A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.

Tribune News Service

Review: Dakota Johnson is bewitching in Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion'

Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

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The Bridgerton effect: The rise in modern Regency novels

There’s a rift in the world of romance novels between ‘Bridgerton’ stans and purists committed to a questionable version of historical accuracy, writes Amanda Whiting

The Independent UK

Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: why Netflix's Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

The Conversation

Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

Los Angeles Times

‘Persuasion’: Breezy romance updates Jane Austen novel with modern language and rhythms

Likable Dakota Johnson stars as the 19th century heroine reunited with the suitor she jilted.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Dakota Johnson Brings a Modern Spark to ‘Persuasion’

The new adaptation of "Persuasion," coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

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Dakota Johnson feels 'incredibly lucky' to star in 'dream' Jane Austen film

It's the Summer of Dakota as Fifty Shades Star Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth and the updated adaptation of Jane Austen's love story Persuasion - and she says she bares her soul in every role

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion review – a travesty of Jane Austen

Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

The Independent UK

Persuasion star Ben Bailey Smith says he ‘couldn’t give two s***s’ about film’s critics

Film has not gone down well with Jane Austen traditionalists

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Persuasion by Jane Austen audiobook review – Juliet Stevenson stars in this reading of ‘the perfect novel’

Actors including Tim Brierley and Sorcha Cusack narrate this version of the great writer’s final novel originally created for radio

Evening Standard

Persuasion film review: Just so tame

Modern Austen adaptations have done justice to the author’s wit. This one, not so much

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

The Conversation

Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music

Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about ten. Her family inherited some of her books of sheet music, including hundreds of manuscripts in her hand as well as printed music.

The Guardian - UK

Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby review – a page-turning Austen romp

This fictionalised life of the governess employed by Jane Austen’s brother wittily toys with the conventions of the genre

The Guardian - UK

A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

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