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JaneAustenremainsoneofthegreatestwritersofalltime.Almosttwohundredyearsafterherdeath,hernovelssuchas“PrideandPrejudice”and“MansfieldPark”continuetoentrancegenerationsofreaderstheworldover.ThisfilmshattersanyassumptionthatAustenherselflivedtheelegantRegencylifeofherfinanciallycomfortableheroineswhoultimatelyfindtheirtruelove.InsteaditrevealstherealJaneAustenaspartofstrataofRegencysocietymuchcruellerinitstreatmentofwomenandharsherinitseconomicrealitiesthanhernovelsandtheircurrenttelevisionadaptati“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree. The pen is in their hands.” Jane Austen changed all that. Great writers take us by surprise. Never married, never rich, Jane Austen wrote with precision and passion of dream lovers and brilliant marriages. She armed her herorines with wit and courage to take on a world ruled by men and money. As she did, she herself, a women, single and poor, became one of the world’s great novelists.