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 West-End style musical theatre production based on the life of Jane Austen. The musical, directed by Geetika Lizardi, focuses on Austen as a modern heroine, a woman who chose art and integrity over the security of a loveless marriage. Jane Austen features as an amateur sleuth in Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen series of historical mystery novels. Kate Beaton, cartoonist of webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant", devoted one of her comic strips to Jane Austen. Jane Austen (voiced by Eden Riegel) is revealed as the narrator of 2013's "Saints Row IV" in a bonus cutscene, and the game's antagonist Zinyak reads the