Jane Austen: The World’s Most Beloved Novelist ~ by: Leslie Truex

Jane Austen is more famous, loved and regarded today than when she was alive writing her witty stories of love in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Some suggest the resurgence has to do with the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that propelled Colin Firths career. That same year, Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay, for which she won an Oscar, and starred in Austens Sense and Sensibility also starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman (most…