Screenwriter points to parallels between two worlds while academic says some of author’s characters ‘would make perfect reality show contestants’ If Jane Austen’s novels run on closed social worlds, courtship rituals, status anxiety, gossip and relentless scrutiny of who’s coupling with who, it f...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/14/andrew-davies-made-in-chelsea-jane-austen-adaptation)