What if Pride and Prejudice was set in the 2010s, where Lizzie Bennet studied communications and vlogged her daily life? What if she reenacted her life with props and costumes? What if it is one of the best depictions of the Bennet sister relationships on screen?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss how iconic YouTube was in 2012, the birth of social media and transmedia storytelling and amazing character writing in the first episode on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Links & Mentions

You can watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries here.

The book that Stefanie mentions about internet history is called Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz.

If you would like to catch up with some of the actors from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, you can see Ashley Clements's YouTube channel here, and the specific link to her Look Back Diaries project. Mary Kate Wiles has her YouTube channel and is part of a group called Shipwrecked Comedy who produces literary and historical comedy. And Daniel Vincent Gordh has a YouTube channel as well. You can also see Hank Green talk about the project on a vlog for the first time in this video (from the 37 second mark).

If you need a Crash Course (lol another Green brothers reference) in the state of the Internet in 2012, relive the fever dream that is Psy's Gangham Style; learn the Dumb Ways to Die around trains in Melbourne; dance the Harlem Shake; meet the cat, the myth, the legend Grumpy Cat; ask What Does the Fox Say with Ylvis and ponder if Taylor Swift sounds like a man screaming like a goat. You can also learn more about the history of YouTube thanks to this BBC podcast released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of YouTube in 2025.

Learn more about the history of VidCon; and watch an ad for home goods store Bing Lee that explains why some Australians found Bing's name very funny.

And if you want a deep dive into transmedia storytelling and LBD, you can check out Jay Bushman's website.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be continuing with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries in Part Two. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Pride & Prejudice was set in an American College (again)? What if Elizabeth and her sisters were actually friends who live in the same dorm building? What if Darcy is a famous TV star who has come to their college to hide out after a hugely public and embarrassing breakup with a much more famous star?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss niche cultural references, gender-flipped Wickhams, and masterful modern updates on niche character traits in The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi.

Links & Mentions

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be examining the iconic web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Pride & Prejudice was set in India? What if it was an all-out musical extravaganza? What if Darcy was a snobbish, fish-out-of-water American businessman who thinks that chinos are appropriate poolside attire?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss vibrant musical numbers, the joy of an adaptation that truly understands its character's motivations, and the second-best fight scene in Pride & Prejudice adaptation history, in Bride & Prejudice directed by Gurinda Chadha. 

Links & Mentions

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Pride & Prejudice was a full-blown romantasy novel? What if the Bennet sisters had to marry to access their magic? What if Mr Bingley was part werewolf and Mr Darcy has the most romantasy name of all time?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss witches without magic, fantasy tropes and men with zero communication skills in Potions & Prejudice by Tee Harlowe.

Links & Mentions

Here is the Instagram carousel that Stefanie mentions in this episode about how some modern enemies to lovers storylines are not earned.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be watching Bride & Prejudice directed by Gurinder Chadha.

What if Pride & Prejudice took place in the wave of Egyptomania that followed Napoleon's surrender in Egypt? What if Darcy was a treasure-hunting adventurer who craved more than just being really, really ridiculously rich? What if Lizzy inherited her father's love of Ancient Egypt and was a very talented translator of hieroglyphics?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss this adaptation being set at the birth of Egyptology (which happens to perfectly align to when Austen was penning her novels), some downright horrifying facts about ancient mummies, and what it feels like to finally get a Mr Bennet who isn't vying for the role of "Worst Father in the Austenverse", in Shadow of Anubis by Adele Dixon.

Links & Mentions

You can find an excellent article on Mummy Mania, the mass export of corpses, and that Mark Twain anecdote here. 

More on the history of Medical Cannibalism can be found here. 

And if you still need to read more about the history of eating mummies, you can do that here. 

Giovanni Belzoni’s full British Museum Biography is here. And more in-depth biography is also here.  

If you’re interested in how Belzoni managed to move (and steal) monuments that no one else could, check out this article.  

And you can read more on the Parliamentary Act that forbids the removal of the Rosetta Stone here. 

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Potions & Prejudice by Tee Harlowe. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Pride & Prejudice was set at an American film school? What if our Elizabeth Bennet is a student who recruits her Darcy to star in her reality TV show where students confront their crushes on camera? What could possibly go wrong?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss the dramatic twists and turns of reality TV, men dancing shirtless on social media, and the definition of ‘cuffing’ in The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee.

Links & Mentions

If you're still confused about the definition of 'cuffing' you can read more.

If the world of K dramas is new for you, read up on the tropes in this helpful summary.

And if you were as confused as Melinda was by the meme 'oh my god they were roommates' you can read more here.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Shadow of Anubis by Adele Dixon. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Pride & Prejudice was about a hopelessly romantic American named Jane who dropped her life savings on a trip to England to take part in a personalised fantasy romance at a Regency themed live-in experience? What if the woman who owns the venue it is inexplicably horrible to her the whole time? What if she accidentally falls in love with her own Mr Darcy for real?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss the absolutely stacked cast of Jane Austen adaptation alumni who feature in the film, the obsession in early aughts films with depicting single women in their 30s as desperate losers, and the intense flashbacks this movie gave them to particular (and particularly unhinged) adaptation that featured in Season 1, in Austenland directed by Jerusha Hess. 

Links & Mentions

Want to get lost in a rabbit hole that Stefanie cut from the episode? Read up on Regency House Party, the insane reality dataing show that forced signle people to live an incredibly accurate Regency lifestyle while trying to find love... think insanly accurate, like washing your hair with egg whites, and being forced to sleep in a broom closet-sized room off the side of your chaperone's rooms because the producers designated you a lowly "lady's companion", level of accurate. 

The Indiewire faux pas is linked here. 

The Guardian review can be found in full here.

MaryAnn Johanson's review can be found here.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be watching The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if Caroline Bingley was the main character and we learn what happens to her after Pride & Prejudice? What if she ends up embroiled in a murder case alongside Georgiana Darcy in London? What if she discovers she is pretty good at solving crimes?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss murder mysteries, characters changing for sequels and flying wombs in Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar.

Links & Mentions

You can read more about the East India Company at Britannica.com. This Guardian article from 2015 also explains the company's unpleasant history.

And if you want to learn more about the White Saviour trope as it appears in literature and film, you can do so here.

You can also read more about Devoney Looser's book Wild for Austen and where to buy it here.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected].

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if the England of Pride & Prejudice was beset by a strange plague that brought the dead back to life to slaughter the living? What if young ladies were taught proficiency in sword play rather than playing the piano? And what if Elizabeth was a heartless, revenge driven, borderline sociopath?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss what happens when revisiting one of your favourite adaptations goes awry, and the painful hilarity of watching Hollywood go completely rogue on the film adaptation of a (sort of) classic novel in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and its companion film, directed by Burr Steers. 

Links & Mentions

The author’s interview in The Times can be read in full here. Additional interviews used as sources can be found here on TIme.com, here on Entertainment Weekly, and the author discusses reading everything Austen ever wrote here.

More information on Isolationist Japan can be found here .

A brief history of ninja can be found here - NB Stefanie uses the modern prefecture names only in this episode. 

You can read more about the religious piety aspect of PPZ, that we didn't have time to get into in the episode, here in the fabulously named “Piety and Pigs Brains” essay on the JASNA website.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

What if the main character of Pride & Prejudice was Georgiana Darcy? What if she attends a boarding school in upstate New York? What if she’s trying to rebuild her reputation and live up to the standard of her perfect older brother?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss our beloved story from a different perspective, realistic mental health journeys and Hollywood teen movies tropes in Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Story by Amanda Quain.

Links & Mentions

Need some help with the marching band terms in this episode? Here's a helpful list of the most common terms.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed and you can contact us via [email protected]. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and watching the companion movie of the same name, directed by Burr Steers. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.