Bath, England, is preparing for Georgian costume balls, the showiest and merriest of the celebrations of the writer’s 250^th. Thousands are flocked in bonnets and top haps this month for the Jane Austin Festival. Several adaptations and reimaginings are on cards, as Netflix is producing a new Pride and Prejudice series written by Dolly Alderton, focus Features announced an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility with Daisy Edgar-Jones. Austen who was funny and satirical in her writing, lived in Bath between 1801 and 1806, which reflected concerns about economic anxiety happening with somebody: the obsession with money and standing in the society and who is independent and is dependent and searching for that independence, taught us about the world in which she lived. Austen’s novels are about love, courtship, and examine the role of marriage.

In Northanger Abbey she called the city the “most tiresome place in the world” outside of the first six weeks of the season.

The festival which runs for 10days until 21 September includes balls, screenings, a costumed promenade, fayres and tours.