One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. It turned out that she had Addisons disease. Jane Austen – a portrait by her sister Cassandra. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! As far as anyone knows she didn’t keep a diary (though her family may have destroyed it), and her family mysteriously burned most of her letters when she died. Surangama, or Sue, as she is called by many, has been writing on films, television, literature, social issues for over a decade now. RELATED: 10 Best Movie Adaptations Of 19th-Century Novels (That Aren't Jane Austen), According To Rotten Tomatoes. Jane Austen will always be relevant and new movie adaptations and retellings are proof of that. O'Connor made quite a name for herself in a repertoire of period films including The Importance of Being Earnest and Madame Bovary. Her books have never been out of print since they were first published. One wonders at the restraint in that, considering that Jane Austen is indisputably one of the greatest English writers – some say the greatest after Shakespeare – and certainly the greatest English novelist and one of the most famous English women who ever lived. She had six brothers and one sister, Cassandra, to whom she was very close. PoemAnalysis to read their analysis of Jane Austen’s poetic works, Famous Authors: The 30 Greatest Writers Of All Time, Dante (Durante degli Alighieri): A Biography, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky: A Biography, Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro): A Biography, The 20 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: An Overview, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: An Overview, The Dream Of The Red Chamber: An Overview, https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/literature/best-english-authors/jane-austen-biography/. We all know Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightly, and poor little Catherine Morland. Between 1900 and 1975, there were more than 60 radio, television and stage productions of Austen novels. Twenty-five years on, and yet the BBC adaptation of this Austenian classic remains the best. The first film adaptation was of "Pride and Prejudice" in 1940, although there had been a television version two years previously. And also when one thinks about how many novels have been written since hers. With that narrative style she is able to reveal and ridicule the manners of her society. Supremely unaware of her own condescension, Emma floats around interfering with everyone she thinks is in desperate need of her help.