Passion persists in the United Kingdom by the writer Jane Austen

Bath. The English writer Jane Austen, whose birth is 250 years old in 2025, continues to enjoy immense popularity in the United Kingdom, where various events are scheduled to celebrate the event.

To the readers of their works, among which the novels stand out Sense and sensitivity, Pride and prejudice y Emmathey will not lack acts to honor the writer born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, a small town near Oxford.

In September, a festival on Jane Austen will see hundreds of people with period dresses parade through the streets of Bath, in southwest England, where the writer lived a few years and two of her novels are set.

There will also be dances on the themes of his books. Getting tickets, at a price of almost 200 pounds (just over 5 thousand pesos), is a difficult task.

BBC series

The BBC is broadcasting a series more dedicated to the writer, Miss Austenwhich allows you to discover the character of his sister Cassandra, who burned Jane’s letters after her death, letting the secrets of her life van.

Southampton, in southern England, where the writer lived two years, has scheduled from March 29 to October 31, at the Seacy Museum, an exhibition that will show paintings, letters, books and personal objects related to the writer and her circle of friendships in the city.

Jane Austen’s six novels, who died at 41 in 1817, have had millions of readers worldwide.

Women’s condition

His works explore the condition of women in the English rural nobility of the early nineteenth century, when marriage was a matter of social survival. Through his heroines, he criticizes the situations of the time.

Pride and prejudicewith the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, she is the subject of a particular cult, who was even a source of inspiration for the literary character of Bridget Jones fiction, according to her author, Helen Fielding.

Lauren Falconer, Guide of the Jane Austen Center in Bath, plays the role of Lizzie Bennet against tourists from around the world and states that tourists from the United States, Australia, China, Japan and Germany arrive, among other countries.

The stories are captivating. My students like them a lot, especially girlsMaria Letizia D’Annibale, Italian Professor of English Literature in the city of Pescara points out, during her visit the center.

It is well known in Italy, partly thanks to moviescontinues.

Moa Aashacka, a 23 -year -old Swedish student, says he saw the movie for the first time Pride and prejudicemade in 2005, starring actress Keira Knightley, and then read the book in Swedish.

It is about women who take powerexplains Moa, to go then to buy the novel Persuasionwhich will read this time in English.

More popular than ever

For Kathryn Sutherland, a professor of English literature at Oxford University, Jane Austen is more popular than ever.

Now is a phenomenon rather than a simple writersays.

The turning point, according to her, dates back to the adaptations of her books for television and cinema, in the 90s, which they show beautiful decorations, costumes and dances.

In the movies the heroes are handsome, while in the books They do not appear particularly attractivesays the teacher.

All this transforms the films into something that Jane Austen’s books are not, something more romantic, as long as their works are mainly interested in broader moral issueshe explains.

You can read your books several times and you always find something new in themdice Kathryn Sutherland.

As for all Jane Austen specialists, the year of this professor at the University of Oxford promises to be busy.

The teacher will publish a book about the writer called Jane Austen in 41 objectsin addition to preparing an exhibition in Oxford entitled Dancing with Jane Austenwhich will include movie suits and various documents.