The tragic true stories that would have saved Netflix's smug and stupid Persuasion - The Telegraph

The Battle of Waterloo is crucial to Jane Austen’s novel, so why are adaptations so reluctant to include it?

When the book was first published in 1817, however, that collision would have cast a dark shadow over the romantic storyline. In the minds of many Austens earliest readers as they reached the novels … [+2355 chars]

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