Why is Jane Austen endlessly adaptable? After all, her Pride and Prejudice character, Elizabeth Bennett, has fought zombies, investigated murders, been a video blogger and has performed Bollywood dance numbers. Is it the brilliant plotting, the wonderful characters or the humour that makes her work so readily transplanted to the screen, stage and page in so many different variations?American author, <a href="https://www.karenjoyfowler.com/">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) has published her own Austen-inspired novel, <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-jane-austen-book-club-9780241973707">The Jane Austen Book Club</a> (2004) and helps Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange answer these questions in the last of our series celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen.Listen to the other Dear Jane episodes <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-book-show/dear-jane/105983162">here</a>.

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