Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

BBC Two Northern Ireland

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Monday 26 May

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Juliet Stevenson narrates a dramatised documentary examining how Jane Austen became one of the world's most well-known and critically acclaimed novelists. At the age of 17, Jane lives in Steventon, Hampshire where her father owns a library of over 500 books. Immersed in the classics, history and the emerging genre of the novel, she decides to tell her own stories