When I was in my 20s, my favorite Jane Austen novel was Sense and Sensibility. I loved it for the way it made me laugh and made me think. I delighted in its comedy and the elegance of Austen’s ...

Every 10 or 15 years, a new attempt is made to adapt “Persuasion,” Jane Austen’s emotionally nuanced final novel. The latest iteration, directed by Carrie Cracknell and written by Ron Bass ...

“Jane Austen Turns in Her Grave,” a headline in the Daily Mail read. Cracknell, 41, speaking on a video call from her London home, doesn’t see it that way.

London — In “Persuasion,” a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel made for Netflix, protagonist Anne Elliot speaks directly to the camera, addressing the audience like an old friend.

Jane Austen certainly wrote some plucky, sassy protagonists. Anne Elliot was not one of them. The first chapter of “Persuasion,” Austen’s final novel, describes Anne as having “an elegance ...

As a vehicle for Johnson and a film oozing with aesthetic pleasures, however, “Persuasion” unquestionably triumphs. “Persuasion” premieres on Netflix US July 15.

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...