Sanditon Feature

Mr Darcy is back! Twenty Seven years after Colin Firth emerged from his lake at Pemberley, in that celebrated wet, white Regency shirt writes arts and culture journalist Alison Jane as she explores the reinvention of Darcy in Bridgerton and Sanditon.

Sanditon is Back! Arts Journalist Alison Jane Reid writes about the arrival of Ben Lloyd-Hughes in Sanditon 2 as a deeply emotional Mr Darcy archetype who is better suited to Jane Austen's legacy and ideal of the flawed romantic hero.

The admired Sanditon long-form review by leading British arts and culture journalist Alison Jane Reid, founder of The Luminaries Magazine. AJ perfected her feature writing skills during a decade at The Times Magazine writing about cultural icons, fashion and food.