Why does the bbc seem to favour Jane Austen over the Bronte sisters?

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It seems very unfair as the brontes are vastly superior.

I love all Jane Austen’s novels - except for Mansfield Park.

I could never get on with Wuthering Heights, but I’m a fan of Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

IMO comparing Austen with the Brontes is a case of chalk and cheese.

There's probably far more Victorian architecture around though?

I don't know why they've even bothered calling the new film 'Wuthering Heights' as the trailer suggests a storyline that is vastly different to the novel.

I share this viewpoint wholeheartedly. Thomas Hardy and George Elliot are also on my list of books that will never pollute the shades of my bookshelves thanks to A level Eng Lit!

I’m not a big fan of either to be honest but the Brontë’s are so bloody miserable

Hardy and Eliot are wasted on the young, and deserve an adult re-read.
Hardy is a bit repetitive (youthful folly will blight your life), but Eliot is up there with Austen in terms of understanding human psyche / resulting wry humour.

I had actually forgotten about my username!

Completely agree with you about the wit. I will always remember reading P&P for the first time as a teenager at school, and being astonished to discover the humour in it. Somehow, it had not been what I had been expecting, but it was all the better for it.

Nope, subtlety was a stranger to the rather overwrought Brontës. (Although in fairness I haven't read Anne's work. I bought Agnes Grey last month to give her a go.)

Charlotte's churlish comments about Austen are why I ignored alphabetical shelving and put Elizabeth Gaskell between Austen and Brontë to keep the peace.

However, I got rid of all my Penguin classics this year and have bought beautiful editions of Austen and Gaskell but didn't bother with new Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.

The Brontes give me a right pain. So dreary and miserable.

I thought Villette was ok when I read it but it was a very long time ago and having read the Wikipedia summary of it, I really don't remember it at all!

The BBC might not be favouring her but simply celebrating her 250th birthday.

That was the appeal to me when I read them in my teens!

you do understand the difference between your subjective viewpoint and an objective fact, right?

you think they are vastly superior

It’s got the most annoying ending of any book I’ve ever read, I think! Has anyone done a dramatisation…wtf would they do with that?

Yes, I think that the Brontes are vastly superior to Jane Austen.