Posts on Jane Austen’s novels, Regency-era fiction, and the challenge of adapting Austen for screen — including the Austenian character series, adaptation analysis by novel, and Austen-adjacent reading.

Posts on Jane Austen’s novels, the Regency world she wrote in, and the ongoing challenge of adapting her work for screen and stage — plus my own Jane Austen-inspired fiction. For the Space Austen concept art and outtakes, see The Worlds of Jaglion Press. For AI-assisted Austen fanfiction, see Fanficcing with Claude.

Austenian

An ongoing series on the supporting characters and families of the novels, with particular attention to the parents: the people whose choices set the plot in motion before the first chapter begins.

• Austenian: The Introduction
• Austenian: the Bennets and Related Families; or, Longbourn, The Early Years
• Austenian: the Rest of the P&P Parents
• Austenian: the Parents of Sense and Sensibility, Part I
• Austenian: The Parents of Sense and Sensibility, Part 2
• Austenian: The Parents of Mansfield Park, Part 1
• Austenian: The Parents of Mansfield Park, Part 2
• Austenian: The Parents of Emma Woodhouse, and Their Friends, The Knightleys
• Austenian: The Other Parents in Emma
• Austenian: Harriet Smith and the Case of the Missing Parents
• Austenian: The Elliots, the Musgroves and the Hayters

Adapting Jane Austen

What works and what doesn’t when putting Austen on screen: my thoughts as an opinionated viewer on how I would approach each novel if I were a TV producer.

Pride & Prejudice

• Introduction
• The Bennets and Their Friends and Family
• Bingleys and Darcys and Wickham, Oh My!
• The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 1
• The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 2
• The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 3

Mansfield Park

• Thoughts on Mansfield Park
• The Characters of Mansfield Park
• Mansfield Park: the Princess Bride Version

Sense & Sensibility

• The Dashwoods and Ferrarses
• The Rest of the Characters
• The Story in Sussex
• The Story in Devonshire
• The Story in London
• The Rest of the Story

Persuasion

• Weird Wednesday: Adapting Persuasion

Adaptation News & Commentary

Tracking the endless stream of Austen adaptations, with commentary. For my general views on what makes a good adaptation of print fiction into film/TV, see The Golden Age of Adaptations.

• Weird Wednesday: The Austenland Decoder Ring (2023)
• Sign of the Times, Austen Edition (2024)
• That Horrifying Moment… (2025) career choices by Jane Austen cast members, and their influence on Pride and Planetoids
• Angry All Over Again (2025)
• So…Netflix Pride and Prejudice (2025)
• Minireviews of Sense and Sensibility Adaptations (2025)
• Gee, Thanks, You BBC Turkeys (2025)
• Sense and Sensibility 2026? Wut? (2025)
• S&S 2026 Is Apparently Mostly Cast… (2025)
• More News on Netflix P&P (2025)
• First Images from S&S 2026 (2025)
• Andrew Davies Strikes Back (Maybe) (2025)

Austen-Adjacent Reading

• The Novels of Marie Belloc Lowndes: The Jane Austen Fanfics
• Belinda, By Maria Edgeworth
• Ranking Georgette Heyer’s Period Pieces: The Introduction
• Ranking Georgette Heyer’s Period Pieces: High Rotation
• Ranking Georgette Heyer’s Period Pieces: Medium Rotation
• Ranking Georgette Heyer’s Period Pieces: Low Rotation

Fanficcing with Claude

My AI-assisted Austen fanfiction project — currently a retelling of Sense and Sensibility set in New Orleans, 1813–1814, with more Austen-adjacent projects in the pipeline. See the Fanficcing with Claude hub page for the full list.