Category:Austen, Jane (1775-1817), writer

Jane Austen (1775-1817), writer

Best adaptations

Pride & Prejudice (1995) <TV miniseries>
Pride & Prejudice (1940) <feature film>
Sense & Sensibility (1995) <feature film>
Sense & Sensibility (2008) <TV miniseries>
Emma (1996) <TV film>
Persuasion (1995 <TV film)
Northanger Abbey (2007) <TV film>
Love & Friendship (2016) <feature film>
Mansfield Park (1999) <feature film>

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Year	Elinor Dashwood	Marianne Dashwood	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1971	Joanna David	Ciaran Madden	David Giles	Denis Constanduros	TV miniseries
1981	Irene Richard	Tracey Childs	Rodney Bennett	Alexander Baron	TV miniseries
1995	Emma Thompson	Kate Winslet	Ang Lee	Emma Thompson	Feature film [#2] {our favorite with the 2008 miniseries}
2008	Hattie Morahan	Charity Wakefield	John Alexander	Andrew Davies	TV miniseries {our favorite with the 1995 version}

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Year	Adaptation	Elizabeth Bennet	Fitzwilliam Darcy	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1938	Pride and Prejudice < lost >	Curigwen Lewis	Andrew Osborn		Michael Barry	This TV film is believed to be lost; it was performed live before the camera, and never recorded.
1940		Greer Garson	Laurence Olivier	Robert Z. Leonard	Aldous Huxley Helen Jerome Jane Murfin	Feature film
1952	Pride and Prejudice < lost >	Daphne Slater	Peter Cushing	Campbell Logan	Cedric Wallis	This TV miniseries is believed to be lost; it was performed live before the camera, and never recorded. The first role of Prunella Scales.
1957		Virna Lisi	Franco Volpi	Daniele D'Anza	Edoardo Anton	TV miniseries -- Orgoglio e pregiudizio: An adaptation in Italian.
1958	Pride and Prejudice < lost >	Jane Downs	Alan Badel	Barbara Burnham	Cedric Wallis	This TV miniseries is believed to be lost; no copies are known to exist.
1961		Lies Franken	Ramses Shaffy	Peter Holland	Cedric Wallis Lo van Hensbergen	De vier dochters Bennet, an adaptation in Dutch. It used the screenplay by Cedric Walles, which was also used for the 1952 and 1958 BBC adaptations.
1966	Orgullo y prejuicio < lost >	Elena María Tejeiro	Pedro Becco	Alberto González Vergel	José Méndez Herrera	An adaptation in Spanish. This TV miniseries is believed to be lost; no copies are known to exist.
1967		Celia Bannerman	Lewis Fiander	Joan Craft	Nemone Lethbridge	TV miniseries
1980		Elizabeth Garvie	David Rintoul	Cyril Coke	Fay Weldon	TV miniseries
1995		Jennifer Ehle	Colin Firth	Simon Langton	Andrew Davies	TV miniseries [#1] {our favorite}
2005		Keira Knightley	Matthew Macfadyen	Joe Wright	Deborah Moggach	Feature film [#3]

Mansfield Park (1814)

Year	Adaptation	Fanny Price	Edmund Bertram	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1983	Mansfield Park Television miniseries	Sylvestra Le Touzel	Nicholas Farrell	David Giles	Kenneth Taylor
1999	Mansfield Park Feature Film	Frances O'Connor	Jonny Lee Miller	Patricia Rozema	Patricia Rozema	#8
2007	Mansfield Park Television Movie	Billie Piper	Blake Ritson	Iain B. MacDonald	Maggie Wadey	[#14] bad

Emma (1815)

Year	Adaptation	Emma Woodhouse	George Knightley	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1948	Emma Feature film	Judy Campbell	Ralph Michael	Michael Barry	Judy Campbell
1960	Emma Television miniseries	Diana Fairfax	Paul Daneman	Campbell Logan	Vincent Tilsley
1967	Emma Television miniseries	Lola Cardona	Arturo López	Manuel Aguado	Hermogenes Sainz	A five-episode adaptation in Spanish. Likely the earliest surviving screen adaptation of the novel.
1972		Doran Godwin	John Carson	John Glenister	Denis Constanduros	TV miniseries
1996		Gwyneth Paltrow	Jeremy Northam	Douglas McGrath	Douglas McGrath	Feature film [#5]
1996		Kate Beckinsale	Mark Strong	Diarmuid Lawrence	Andrew Davies	TV film [#10]
2009		Romola Garai	Jonny Lee Miller	Jim O'Hanlon	Sandy Welch	TV miniseries[#9]
2020		Anya Taylor-Joy	Johnny Flynn	Autumn de Wilde	Eleanor Catton	Feature film [#11] not good

Northanger Abbey (1817)

Year	Adaptation	Catherine Morland	Henry Tilney	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1968	La abadía de Northanger Television miniseries	Lola Herrera	Pepe Martín	Pedro Amalio López	Ricardo López Aranda	A Spanish TV adaptation loosely based on the novel. This ten-part series is also likely to be the earliest screen adaptation of the book.
1987	Northanger Abbey Television film	Katharine Schlesinger	Peter Firth	Giles Foster	Maggie Wadey
2007		Felicity Jones	J. J. Feild	Jon Jones	Andrew Davies	TV film [#7] our favorite adaptation of the novel

Persuasion (1817)

Year	Adaptation	Anne Elliot	Capt. Frederick Wentworth	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1960	Persuasion Television Miniseries	Daphne Slater	Paul Daneman	Campbell Logan	Barbara Burnham Michael Voysey	This TV series is believed to be lost; no known copies exist
1971	Persuasion Television Miniseries	Ann Firbank	Bryan Marshall	Howard Baker	Julian Mitchell
1972	Persuasión Television Miniseries	Maite Blasco	Juan Diego	Federico Ruiz	Hermógenes Sainz	A ten-episode adaptation in Spanish.
1995	Persuasion Television Film	Amanda Root	Ciarán Hinds	Roger Michell	Nick Dear	Originally a Television movie, it was released in US theatres by Sony Pictures Classics. [#4] our favorite
2007	Persuasion Television Film	Sally Hawkins	Rupert Penry-Jones	Adrian Shergold	Simon Burke	[#12] not good
2022	Persuasion Feature Film	Dakota Johnson	Cosmo Jarvis	Carrie Cracknell	Ronald Bass & Alice Victoria Winslow