The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on novels by Jane Austen. The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007, with "Mansfield Park". The following week, "Northanger Abbey" was aired. The season ended with the airing of "Persuasion" on Sunday 1 April 2007. A repeat of the 1996 feature-length film "Emma" was broadcast on Friday 6 April 2007. The combined ITV and BBC series was shown in the United States by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology television series from January through March 2008. The following
Jane Austen in popular culture was translated as "Gurur ve Önyargı" by Hamdi Koç, who at present is engaged in translating the rest of Austen's novels into Turkish. "Gurur ve Önyargı" sold out in its first year, and a second edition was issued in 2007, which Tekcan used to argue that many Turks wanted a proper version of Austen in their own language. Austen's status in modern Turkey can be seen in the Wikipedia-like website "Ekşi Sözlük" ("The Sourtimes Dictionary"), when anonymous contributors write articles on various subjects; typing Jane Austen on the "Ekşisözlük" produces comments such as “Jane Austen is for those who are