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Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

  • 2025
  • Ended
  • Documentary · Drama
  • ~57m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 4.0/10

An immersive look at how a young woman from a small village in 18th-century England became one of the UK's best-loved novelists.

Latest: Limited Series · 2025

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How a self-taught woman from a small English village became a great novelist.

  1. E1. Episode 1

    May 26, 2025 · 59m

    At 17, Jane Austen is growing up in a small English village. She starts to write stories, culminating in Pride and Prejudice.

  2. E2. Episode 2

    May 26, 2025 · 59m

    After the loss of her father throwing the family into turmoil, Jane publishes Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.

  3. E3. Episode 3

    May 26, 2025 · 57m

    Determined to secure her financial future, Austen dives back into her writing, embarking on her most ambitious work yet—Emma.