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 College Jane Austen College Jane Austen College is a secondary free school located in Norwich, owned by the Inspiration Trust, that opened in September 2014. The school's Principal is Claire Heald. Plans for the school were announced in March 2013 with the intention to locate in central Norwich. Jane Austen was approved by the Department for Education, on 22 May 2013, to open in September 2014. The school will eventually have places to educate 1,100 pupils aged 11–18. The school specialises in English and humanities, and all pupils are required to study a language until age 16. There are also classes