{"id":4167,"date":"2025-10-12T02:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/introducing-jane-austen-rise-of-a-genius\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:03:41","slug":"introducing-jane-austen-rise-of-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/introducing-jane-austen-rise-of-a-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7Sik1DtAik?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;I shall be eternally grateful to Jane Austen because I stole her plot for Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary and learned most of what I know about writing by trying to imitate her. Her voice is so strong, and funny, and perceptive.&#8221; &#8211; Helen Fielding<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jane Austen did what she wanted to do. She has shown me that through her characters and her way of living. She makes me feel like I can always do what I want to do.&#8221; &#8211; Candice Carty-Williams<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is telling young women, &#8216;I see you, and I hear you&#8217;, which is so modern.&#8221; &#8211; Charity Wakefield<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s not just writing about romance. We should see her as a political novelist.&#8221; &#8211; Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;225 years ago, she was 225 years ahead of her time&#8230; no one threw shade around like Austen.&#8221; &#8211; Tom Bennett<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a0Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius &#8211; Watch all episodes on iPlayer <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; BBC Arts<\/p>\n<p>#JaneAusten #HelenFielding #Austen #Novels #Books <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub<br \/>\nWatch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7Sik1DtAik\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I shall be eternally grateful to Jane Austen because I stole her plot for Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary and learned most of what I know about writing by trying to imitate her. Her voice is so strong, and funny, and perceptive.&#8221; &#8211; Helen Fielding &#8220;Jane Austen did what she wanted to do. She has shown me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60,1529,586,587,8505,8506,8507,8504,2972,8508,8509,585,589,590,588],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-books","tag-british-tv","tag-british-tv-shows","tag-jane-austen","tag-jane-austen-books","tag-jane-austen-novels","tag-jane-austen-rise-of-a-genius","tag-novel","tag-novels","tag-reading","tag-united-kingdom","tag-watch-british-tv-online","tag-watch-british-tv-shows-online","tag-watch-uk-tv-online","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}