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Pride and Provocation; A New Film Imagines Jane Austen in Love. It's Stirring All Sorts of Passions.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070729
Author:Monica Hesse - Washington Post Staff Writer

Call it the return of romance or just a love of Empire waistlines, but it seems you could make anything Jane Austen wrote - - a captioned doodle? a grocery list? a penmanship exercise? -- into a box office smash. All six of her novels have become feature films or miniseries; in January a "Masterpiece Theatre" project will introduce new adaptations of four; and Friday brings yet another Austen-related work to the screen.

This time, it's personal.

"Becoming Jane," starring Anne Hathaway, is a romantic dramedy based on the life of the author herself. To which fans might say: Holy Mr. ...

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