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I quite enjoy Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice is my favourite - even though it was one of the set books for my O level Eng. Lit. many years ago. The TV productions are usually extremely good and though I thought Northanger Abbey was too abbreviated and should have been done over 2 episodes it was still worth watching.

The stories are a bit Catherine Cookson-ish in that there's always a heroine and a prospective bridegroom but there's a fair bit of commentary about life in the early 19th century, among the middle class, and they make good dramas.