Lost in Austen

The house representing the Bennets' home, Longbourn, was an empty, abandoned building called Bramham Biggin on the Bramham Park Estate in West Yorkshire, England. Because the building had long been out of use, the production team was allowed to make numerous changes to the property, including adding a porch to the front entrance and planting a new garden.

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At the ball, the Bennet sisters tell a story about how they made a bet to get Mr Darcy to say three words to them, and how they failed when he replied, "You lose." This exchange is supposed to have actually happened in history, and the famous reply was uttered by United States President Calvin Coolidge. The story has also been attached to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

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A scene featuring the Bennets' pig, Lady Ambrosia, was written for the screen, but an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease prevented the scene from being filmed.

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Amanda Price takes her name from Fanny Price, the protagonist of Jane Austen's 1814 novel "Mansfield Park."

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This was Florence Hoath's ("Kitty Bennet") last role before she retired from acting.

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Christina Cole, who plays Caroline Bingley, appeared in the film What a Girl Wants (2003). Her on-screen mother was Anna Chancellor, who played Caroline Bingley in the 1995 miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995).

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Tom Riley (Mr Wickham) and Elliot Cowan (Mr Darcy) first worked together five years later on the series Da Vinci's Demons (2013). They play Leonardo Da Vinci and Lorenzo Medici, respectively.

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On 11 February 2009, The Guardian reported that a film version of the series was in development. Oscar®-winning director Sam Mendes was attached as executive producer. Nora Ephron was working on the project when she died in 2012. Two years after Ephron's death, Carrie Brownstein was tasked with finishing the rest of the screenplay.

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Caroline Bingley (Christina Cole) falls in love with Amanda (Jemima Rooper). In Hex (2004), Jemima Rooper's character Thelma is a lesbian with unrequited romantic feelings for Christina Cole's character Cassie.

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The flesh-coloured costume Spencer wears when Jemima Rooper's Amanda Price travels to Hammersmith with Mr and Mrs Bennet is the same costume Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) wore while reading Mr Darcy's letter in Pride and Prejudice (1995).

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The crimson ruffled bonnet Jemima Rooper (Amanda Price) wears at Longbourn is the same hat Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) wore when leaving Hunsford in Pride and Prejudice (1995).

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Amanda Price's workplace was filmed in the disused Yorkshire Bank building on Westgate in Wakefield. The Beluga Lounge on Market Street, also in Wakefield, served as the set for a London wine bar. The production used various areas inside and outside Cannon Hall at the Cannon Hall Museum near Barnsley, including the oak-panelled ballroom. Leeds-based Screen Yorkshire told the production company Mammoth Screen about the potential of certain landscapes in the Wetherby area as locations for Lost in Austen (2008). Filming took place at locations including Bramham Park, parts of York and Leeds City Markets. Harewood House near Leeds was the location for Pemberley.

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The white polka-dot dress with an ornate floral-patterned bodice that Ruby Bentall (Mary Bennet) wears to the Meryton Assembly Ball is the same costume Julia Sawalha (Lydia Bennet) wore while watching Wickham ride in Pride and Prejudice (1995) and the same costume Dagmara Dominczyk (Mercedès Iguanada) wore in Monsieur Villefort's office in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).

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The tall green hat with peacock feathers that Christina Cole (Caroline Bingley) wears at the shooting contest at Pemberley is the same hat worn by an extra in the Covent Garden coffee house in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

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The black velvet-striped day dress Lindsay Duncan (Lady Catherine) wears at Longbourn is the same costume Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) wore at Netherfield Hall in Pride and Prejudice (1995). The same costume was also worn by Janine Duvitski (Mrs Bute Crawley) when Becky and Rawdon return to Queen's Crawley in Vanity Fair (1998) and by an extra in a London street scene in Little Dorrit (2008).

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The dark empire-waist jacket worn by Alex Kingston (Mrs Bennet) is the same costume worn by a mourner in the opening scene of David Copperfield (1999), by Maxine Peake (Miss Wade) in Little Dorrit (2008) and by Phyllida Law on her way to church in Miss Austen Regrets (2007).

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Lost in Austen (2008) is a four-part 2008 British television series written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice for the ITV network. Amanda, a young woman living in modern London, enters the novel's plot through a portal in her bathroom to join the Bennet family and generally affects events disastrously.

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The green linen jacket with pink flowers at the waist worn by Morven Christie (Jane Bennet) is the same costume worn by Lucy Davis (Maria Lucas) when leaving Hunsford in Pride and Prejudice (1995), by Amanda Hale (Mary Musgrove) on the long walk to Winthrop in Persuasion (2007) and by Daisy Haggard (Anne Steele) in London in Sense & Sensibility (2008).

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The flesh-coloured muslin day dress with a black pattern worn by Alex Kingston (Mrs Bennet) at Hunsford is the same costume worn by Gemma Jones (Mrs Dashwood) at Barton Cottage in Sense and Sensibility (1995), by Janet Dale (Miss Briggs) on Park Lane in Vanity Fair (1998), by Penny Downie (Lady Milbanke) at dinner in Byron (2003) and by an extra at the Meryton Assembly Ball in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

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The sheer brown dress with red and blue dots that Christina Cole (Caroline Bingley) wears while playing cards at Netherfield Hall is the same dress Jackie Smith-Wood wore while discussing a play in Mansfield Park (1983).

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The green-caped coat Michelle Duncan (Charlotte Lucas) wears to the wedding is the same costume Mali Harries (Anne Rood) wore at Six Mile Bottom in Byron (2003).

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The white muslin day dress with a medallion pattern that Perdita Weeks wears while sewing cushions for the church is the same costume Susan Edmonstone (Mrs. Grant) wore when the Crawfords first arrived at the parsonage in Mansfield Park (1983).

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The blue jacket with 12 fabric-covered buttons on the bodice that Ruby Bentall (Mary Bennet) wears at Longbourn is the same costume Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wore in London in the film Byron (2003).

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The white dress with beaded embellishments on the sleeves and front that Morven Christie (Jane Bennet) wears to the wedding is the same costume worn by a guest at the party where Brummell meets Byron in Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006).

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The white dress with a purple floral pattern that Michelle Duncan (Charlotte Lucas) wears while doing needlework at Longbourn is the same costume worn by Emilia Fox (Clara Copperfield) in David Copperfield (1999) and by Francesca Annis (Mrs. Kirkpatrick) at the Towers in the opening scenes of Wives and Daughters (1999).

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The green velvet dress with gold and white trim worn by Christina Cole (Caroline Bingley) is the same costume Emma Thompson (Elinor Dashwood) wore to the London ball in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

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The short-sleeved gold evening gown Christina Cole (Caroline Bingley) wears to the Meryton assembly ball is the same costume worn by Jackie Smith-Wood (Mary Crawford) at Fanny's ball in Mansfield Park (1983).

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The navy Spencer that Jemima Rooper (Amanda Price) wears to the wedding is the same costume Laura Pyper (Jane Fairfax) wore on the cliff at Weymouth in Emma's (2009) fantasy in Emma. Jemima Rooper and Laura Pyper appeared together in season 2 of Hex (2004).

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The red-print dress worn by Alex Kingston (Mrs. Bennet) is the same costume worn by Susan Fleetwood (Lady Russell) at the party at Camden Place in Persuasion (1995); by Catherine Bigg in The Real Jane Austen (2002); by Sheila Gish (Mrs. Norris) while reading a newspaper aloud to Fanny in Mansfield Park (1999); by a guest at the London ball in Byron (2003); by Elizabeth Devonport in The Regency House Party (2004); by Hayley Atwell (Mary Crawford) in Mansfield Park (2007); and by Daisy Haggard (Anne Steele) at the London ball in Sense & Sensibility (2008).

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The green pelisse with striped front and back panels that Alex Kingston (Mrs. Bennet) wears on the coach to the Netherfield ball is the same costume Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) wore when she was visited by Jane Bennet on Gracechurch Street in London in Pride and Prejudice (1995), and that a guest wore in the London salon in Byron (2003).

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The peach and sea-blue cloak worn by an extra at the wedding is the same costume Samantha Bond (Maria Bertram) wore at her wedding in Mansfield Park (1983).

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The grey checked Spencer that Gemma Arterton (Elizabeth Bennet) wears in Amanda's bathroom is the same costume worn by Susannah Harker (Jane Bennet) while riding to Netherfield in the rain in Pride and Prejudice (1995), by Sarah Crowden (Lady Blanche) in Brussels in Vanity Fair (1998), and by Vicki Hopkins while riding a horse in The Regency House Party (2004).

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