I tweet about this occasionally but ... the IRONY of so many people coming to Jane Austen through mini-series adaptations written by the same white guy

Jane specifically wrote women’s lives and then women come to her writing through a man’s lens, good lord

Watch the Emma Thompson-penned, Ang Lee-directed Sense and Sensibility starring Thompson and Kate Winslet. Thompson did things Davies can’t dream of.

Also Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park dared to capture Jane’s commentary on slavery and white feminism.

I was really critical of Rozema’s film when it came out because she substituted Jane Austen for the character of Fanny, essentially, but when I got older and realized the slavery and white feminism thing went over people’s heads I was very pleased

Also there’s a comment in there about how it didn’t matter what her personality was because she was still a woman

anyway what if adaptations of dead women’s writing led to living women getting writing jobs instead of ... men?

a thought

Wait also I gotta give props to Amy Heckerling for her masterful adaptation of Emma, also known as Clueless. I firmly believe Jane Austen would have loved it.

“But why have you thought so deeply about Jane Austen, white feminism, and race?”

It’s a family hobby. See my grandmother’s book: https://www.akpress.org/ladiesandthemammies.html