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Sweet Jane: 'The Complete Austen' comes to PBS

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From: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
Date: 20080112
Author:Rick Porter

"The Complete Jane Austen" schedule:

Jan. 13: "Persuasion"

Jan. 20: "Northanger Abbey"

Jan. 27: "Mansfield Park"

Feb. 3: "Miss Austen Regrets"

Feb. 10, 17 and 24: "Pride and Prejudice"

March 23: "Emma"

March 30 and April 6: "Sense and Sensibility"

"Masterpiece Theatre" airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on WCBB-Channel 10 Sweet Jane: "The Complete Austen comes to PBS

As seems to happen every few years, Jane Austen got hot again in 2007, with one feature film ("Becoming Jane") depicting her life and another ("The Jane Austen Book Club") about fans of her novels.

Starting Sunday, Jan. 13, though, Austenites ...

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