Miss Austen Regrets - Looks like it will be good!
"I have had the pleasure of viewing an advance copy, and am favourably pleased. I think that the writer Gwyneth Hughes and director Jeremy Lovering have handled a very sensitive subject with honesty and respect."
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""The script is very tightly based on Austen's surviving letters to her sister and to her young niece, Fanny. So I must share the credit for quite a lot of the dialogue with Miss Austen herself!"
""Everyone knows Jane Austen never married. For her millions of fans this can only be a relief, because it's hard to see how a 19th century wife and mother could have found time to write her six wonderful novels! All the same, you do wonder whether she minded – how this spinster lady felt about the absence of a real Mr Darcy in her life."
"And then I read the most extraordinary fact. Jane Austen did receive a proposal of marriage from a wealthy young neighbour. And she accepted! She actually said yes to him – till after a long night of discussion with her sister Cassandra, she changed her mind. This intriguing decision inspired the story of Miss Austen Regrets.""
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"Miss Austen Regrets was written by Gwyneth Hughes, who based her script on Austen’s surviving correspondence with Cassandra and Fanny. The characters and incidents in the film are drawn from these letters, with Hughes reading carefully between the lines to fill in crucial gaps.
Cassandra notoriously burned many of her sister’s letters after Jane’s death—an act that was probably intended to spare the feelings of still-living relatives and acquaintances, who were the target of Jane’s famous barbs."
Olivia Williams as Jane Austen
Imogen Poots as Fanny Austen Knight
Greta Scacchi as Cassandra Austen
Hugh Bonneville as Rev Brook Bridges
Adrian Edmondson as Henry Austen
Jack Huston as Charles Haden
Phyllida Law as Mrs Austen
Pip Torrens as Edward Austen-Knight
Sylvie Herbert as Madame Bigeon
Tom Hiddleston as John Plumptre
Sally Tatum as Anna Lefroy
Jason Watkins as Rev Clarke
Miss Austen Regrets