Lost in Austen

Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British television series for the ITV network, written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Amanda, a young woman living in modern London, enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events, generally disastrously. In December 2009 the show was placed at 48 in "The Top 50 TV Shows of the Noughties", a list published in The Times. Plot Episode 1 Amanda Price, a keen Jane Austen fan from present-day Hammersmith, who has just rejected an unromantic marriage proposal from her boozy boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet, a character from Pride and Prejudice, standing in a nightgown in her bathroom. When Elizabeth disappears, Amanda brushes the incident off as a dream. She explains to her mother that Jane Austen's novel has shown her that she can set higher standards for a husband for herself and has taught her to believe in true love. Elizabeth appears in Amanda's bathroom again, this time dressed for travel.