What then, besides Colin Firth’s dripping wet shirt, has inspired droves of readers over the ages to return to Austen time and time again? Many modern readers admit to discovering Austen through her film adaptations-being taken in by Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth and Keira Knightley and discovering entirely new delights in the original source material. via Jameleh and licensed under Creative Commons 3.0
Being an Austen fan has become such a distinctive obsession, that the original Queen of Satire has inspired another layer of skewering in films like Austenland (2013) that lovingly mock women obsessed with finding their Mr. Since the mid-1990s and Colin Firth’s decidedly non-canon jump in a lake, Austen has spawned a lucrative cottage industry, inspiring everything from a publishing sub-genre to web series to travel itineraries to merchandise littered with her quotations, silhouette, and characters. This has made Austen a rich source for film and television adaptation from traditional iterations like the Laurence Olivier Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility (1995) to modern retellings like Clueless (1995) and Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) to the newest take on her work, Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship. Since the publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811, Jane Austen’s characters and heroines have captured the imaginations of readers-and those readers have related to them in their realness. Long before women were debating whether they were a Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha or Miranda, they were contemplating whether they were more an Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, Anne Eliot or Emma Woodhouse.
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