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Jane Austen Persuasion gets the Netflix treatment in new adaptation starring Dakota Johnson - but some fans aren't happy

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Jane Austen's classic Persuasion is coming to Netflix and fans cannot contain their excitement. However, many are complaining that Dakota Johnson's depiction of the main character Anne Elliot is a little off. We can all fight over the best period dramas and book-to-movie adaptations that have a historical setting - but most will agree that Jane Austen's stories are a delight to read and watch.

Dakota, who's dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, is finding out just how precious fans of the genre can really be. Dakota was clearly destined for the big screen, as she comes from a line of Hollywood actors.

Her grandmother Tippi Hedren was one of Alfred Hitchcock's 'tragic blondes' and starred in The Birds and Marnie. Dakota's mother, Melanie Griffith, starred in Working Girls.

Persuasion was Austen’s sixth and final novel, which was published six months after her death in 1817. It tells the story of Austen’s oldest heroine, Anne, who, at 27, finds herself living with her insufferable relatives and pining after a lost love.

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