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 Welcome to our Jane Austen Adaptations selection. I have had the pleasure of working on most of the TV & Film adaptations mentioned, sourcing locations on behalf of the production companies involved. I am sure you will enjoy this trip down the literary screen trail visiting various productions and interpretations of Austen's most timeless and treasured work, and in turn I hope this may make your future journeys across the UK even more enjoyable by being able to recognise and recount the famous scenes along the way!
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Mansfield Park
Author Jane Austen  Language English Genre(s) Bildungsroman Publisher Mr. Egerton Publication date July 1814 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback
The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows his real kindness. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into romantic love.
Locations
Mansfield Park 1991 (Miramax)
Charlestown, Cornwall, England, UK
(Portsmouth)
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Pride and Prejudice
 Author: Jane Austen Country: United Kingdom Genre(s): Novel of manners Publisher: T. Egerton, Whitehall Publication date: 28 January 1813
The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England...
Locations
Pride & Prejudice - 1995 - BBC
Twenty-four locations, and eight studio sets were used for filming The first location that the producers agreed on was Lacock in Wiltshire to represent the village of Meryton. Luckington Court, which was in close proximity, served as the interior and exterior of Longbourn during 10 weeks of filming. Lyme Hall in Cheshire was chosen as Pemberley, but management problems forced production to film Pemberley's interiors at Sudbury Hall in Sudbury, Derbyshire.
The London streets and coaching inn were filmed in Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick, Warwickshire. Wickham's and Georgiana's planned elopement in Ramsgate was filmed in the English seaside resort Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.
Wiltshire, England, UK
The Guardian declared the lake scene "one of the most unforgettable moments in British TV history".
Reception
Between 10 and 11 million people watched the original six-episode broadcast on BBC One on Sunday evenings from 24 September to 29 October 1995.
The final episode of Pride and Prejudice had a market share of about 40 percent in Britain, by which time eight foreign countries had bought the rights to the serial.3.7 million Americans watched the first broadcast on the A&E Network, which aired the serial in double episodes on three consecutive evenings beginning 14 January 1996.
Pride & Prejudice - 2005 (Dir: Joe Wright)
Wilton House,  Salisbury, (Pemberley's drawing room)
Chatsworth House, Edensor, Derbyshire, England, UK (Pemberley exteriors/Pemberley's grand staircase/Pemberley's sculpture gallery)
North Lees Hall, Hathersage, Derbyshire, England, UK
Rutland, England, UK
Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
(Meryton village/Milliner's shop)
Stanage Edge, Hathersage Moor, Hathersage, Derbyshire, England, UK
(Elizabeth standing on precipice)
Pride & Prejudice Box Office
The movie took the number one spot in the UK its first week, earning £2.5 million ($4.5 million) while playing on 400 screens. It stayed on the top spot for two more weeks, earning a total of over £14 million at the UK box office at that time and was featured on 1,335 screens at its widest domestic release.
The film debuted with an opening weekend of US$2.9 million on 215 screens. Two weeks later, this was increased to 1,299 screens, and box office returns increased to $7.2 million. The film has grossed over $121,147,947 worldwide at the cinema box office.
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Sense & Sensibility
Author Jane Austen Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Thomas Egerton, Military Library (Whitehall, London) Publication date 1811
The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.
Film & TVSense and Sensibility (1981 TV serial)
Sense and Sensibility (1995 film) starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet
Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000 film) a modern Tamil adaptation starring Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, Ajith and Mammootty.
Sense and Sensibility (2008 TV serial), BBC serial starring Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield
Locations
Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)
Mompesson House, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
(Mrs Jenning's London town-house)
Berry Pomeroy Church, Berry Pomeroy, Devon, England, UK (Marianne and Brandon's wedding) Blickling Hall, Blickling, Norfolk, England, UK
Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Cornwall, England, UK
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England, UK
Sense & Sensibility..Box Office
The film was budgeted at US$16,500,000. It grossed US$42,993,774 in the US and US$92,000,000 in foreign markets for a worldwide box office total of US$134,993,774
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Author Jane Austen 
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher John Murray
Publication date December 1815;
title page says 1816
Media type Print
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among her characters
TV & Film
1972: Emma (BBC 1972 television), starring Doran Godwin as Emma.
1996: Emma, Film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma.
1996: Emma, BBC TV starring Kate Beckinsale as Emma.
2009: Emma, starring Romola Garai as Emma.[3]
Emma - TV 2009
Chilham, Kent, England, UK
(village of Highbury)
Kent, England, UK
Emma - TV Film Meridien 1996
, Oxfordshire, England, UK
(Donwell Abbey Great Hall)
Thame Park, Thame, Oxfordshire, England, UK
(Abbey Mill Farm, Hartfield interiors, Donwell strawberry beds, derelict cottages, gypsy camp, the sea at Weymouth)
Emma - 1996 (Dir: D McGrath) Miramax
Came House, Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK (Hartfield)
Dorset, England, UK
Evershot, Dorset, England, UK
(Highbury village)
London, England, UK
Mapperton, Beaminster, Dorset, England, UK
(Randalls, and the garden behind Hartfield)
St. Michael's Church, East Coker, Somerset, England, UK
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Persuasion
Author Jane Austen  Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher John Murray Publication date 1818 Media type Print (Hardback and Paperback) More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, Anne's father is dissatisfied with her choice. Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former fiancé Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories . However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him. Persuasion 1995 (BBC Films)
Bath, Roman Baths & Street (the kiss took place)
Gloucestershire, England, UK
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Somerset, England, UK
Wiltshire, England, UK
Persuasion 1971 (TV Mini Series)
Frampton Court, Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, UK (Upper Cross)
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Film Clips & Quotations
Pride & Prejudice 2005
Persuasion 1995
Sense & Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
"THE SCENE" Darcy
Ouch...
Garth Pearce of The Sunday Times did not observe any significant impact of Macfadyen's Darcy, noting in 2007 that "Colin Firth will forever be remembered as the perfect Mr Darcy."
Mansfield Park
"Sarah you are holding up a multi-million pound production and Harold Pinters on standy-by"
Bill Darby, Location Manager, to Sarah Eastel regarding a request to light a fire at short notice within Kirby Hall.
Sense & Sensibility loss
On an episode of the popular quiz show QI, Emma Thomson revealed that she lost the screenplay on her faulty computer. When a repairman could not retrieve the file, she took the computer in a taxi to friend Stephen Fry, who, along with flatmate Hugh Laurie, spent seven hours retrieving the missing file.
Six, Sense & Sensibility actors went on to appear in at least one Harry Potter film: namely
Alan Rickman Emma Thompson Robert Hardy
Imelda Staunton Gemma Jones & Elizabeth Spriggs
Jane Austen in her words...
"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. "
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, first line
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