It has seemed for a while as if the studios had given up making things for Jane Austen fans and devoted themselves to making things about them (there will, of course, be quite a bit of overlap there).

The 2013 Kerri Russell film "Austenland" and the 2008 TV miniseries "Lost in Austen" prove that there is an enduring interest in the great British novelist's work. But you're right, there hasn't been a big-screen adaptation of one of her novels in a while.

The lush treatment and Oscar attention given to 2005's "Pride and Prejudice" and 1995's "Sense and Sensibility" gave hope of more to come, but there haven't been.

TV has so far been filling the void. In 2007, we saw a couple of lesser-known Austen books adapted for the small screen, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion," both of which aired on PBS's "Masterpiece."

On the big screen, the trend has been toward loose adaptations. The 2011 teen film "From Prada to Nada" was a take on "Sense and Sensibility," and if you're really desperate, Universal Pictures is prepping a film version of the surprise-hit spoof novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," due out next year.

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