Jane Austen on Youth Ministry

In the recent issue of Touchstone Magazine, Eleanor Donlon wrote an article entitled “No Plain Jane.” In the article Donlon decries the Hollywood movie Becoming Jane. Becoming Jane is a biographical depiction of Jane Austen, author of the famous Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Rather than present the period piece according to period propriety (“Regency style” in Donlon’s words), the director “sexed up” or “grunged up” Jane’s life […]