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Explore this section of the JASNA Southwest website for our definitive guide to Austen adaptations — from the classic to the modern take. Or download our Austen Adaptations guide.
Vote for your favorite version, take our adaptations quiz, compare film locations and much more.
And if you are aware of something we missed, let us know!
Click on the links below to explore the range of adaptations of each of Austen’s works.
Left column, from top: The militia come to Meryton in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice; Greg Wise (Willoughby) and Kate Winslet in the 1995 Sense and Sensibility; Michelle Ryan (Maria Bertram) and Rory Kinnear (Mr. Rushworth) in Mansfield Park (2007); Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary; Rose Williams and Crystal Clarke in Sanditon (2019)
Middle column, from top: Paul Rudd and Alicia Silverstone in Clueless; Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 mini series Pride and Prejudice; Sophia Myles (Susan Price) and Frances O’Connor (Fanny Price) with an uncredited Price sibling in the 1999 theatrical version of Mansfield Park; Joanna Sotomura (Emma Woodhouse) and Brent Bailey (Alex Knightley) in Emma Approved; Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey (2007); Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse in Emma (2020)
Right column, from top: Gwyneth Paltrow (Emma Woodhouse) and Jeremy Northam (Mr. Knightley) in the 1996 theatrical version of Emma; Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan in Love and Friendship; Mia Goth (Harriet) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Emma) in the 2020 film adaptation of Emma; Amanda Root (Anne Elliot) and Ciarán Hinds (Capt. Wentworth) in the 1995 Persuasion; Hattie Morahan (Elinor Dashwood), Anna Madeley (Lucy Steele) and Dan Stevens (Edward Ferrars) in the 2008 Sense and Sensibility mini series; Romola Garai (Emma Woodhouse) and Rupert Evans (Frank Churchill) in the 2009 Emma mini series; Rupert Penry-Jones (Capt. Wentworth) in the 2008 version of Persuasion