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Happy New Year 2025!

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Wishing all the  P&P/Jane Austen fans  around the world, frequent  visitors , and faithful  readers  of this blog a Happy New Year 2025 !  This year, September (UK) and November (USA)  2025 is the 20th anniversary of Joe Wright 's   Pride & Prejudice  (2005) film starring  Keira Knightley  &  Matthew Macfadyen !

Merry Christmas!

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Wishing all the devoted  Pride & Prejudice Fans ,  v isitors , and all the faithful  P&P Blog Readers  here today a very...

Brenda Blethyn’s ‘Vera’ series to end after Season 14 with the final season premiering January 1, 2025!

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The final season of ITV’s Vera series starring  Brenda Blethyn   (in the title role as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope ) premieres in the coming New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2025  with 2 part episodes on ITV! The last season will be its final 14th (season) for the hit crime detective series.

Happy Birthday Jane Austen!

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Happy 249th Birthday  to the lovely, genius and way ahead of her time, beloved English novelist, the one and only,  JANE AUSTEN ! Worth re-posting every year (and slightly edited and updated) for your FYI... Remembering and  celebrating her birthday  today,  Jane Austen , the woman who wrote the original  Pride and Prejudice   novel (which had been made into  several TV and Film adaptations  including the  2005 film,  Pride & Prejudice ), which was her first (can you believe  unsuccessful ?!) submission to a publisher back in  1797  ( 227  years ago) titled  "First Impressions"  (later changed to  "Pride and Prejudice" ). She revised " First Impressions " and published it entitled " Pride and Prejudice " in  1813  ( 211  years ago, 11 months ago this year!).

'The Ballad of Wallis Island' starring Carey Mulligan to premiere at Sundance Film Festival January 2025!

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Focus Features has shared the first look still of  Carey Mulligan  in her upcoming film, 'The Ballad of Wallis Island , which will be premiering at Sundance Film Festiva l on January 23, 2025! Read more info. below...