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Stop adapting Jane Austen! Five other 18th-century writers perfect for the screen

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par Amy Louise Blaney, Knowledge Exchange Coordinator, University of Wolverhampton

With new adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility arriving on our screens this autumn, television’s long-running love affair with Jane Austen shows little sign of abating. But there are other 18th-century writers with whom TV could have a wonderful love affair, too.

One writes about a woman who disguises herself as four different people to pursue the same man. Another writes about a woman becomes so obsessed with romance novels that she struggles to distinguish fiction from reality.…

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