In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins total
- George Hatton
- (uncredited)
- Miss Plumptre
- (uncredited)
- Fanny's Best Friend
- (uncredited)
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- Gwyneth Hughes
- Jane Austen(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe beige dress with paisley bodice worn by a guest at Fanny's wedding is the same costume Sabina Franklyn (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in Pride and Prejudice (1980), Rachel Fielding (Mrs. Benson) wears in Princess Caraboo (1994), Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wears to read Byron's poetry book in Byron (2003), and Freema Agyeman (Tattycoram) wears on the Marseilles wharf in Little Dorrit (2008). The same costume is also worn by an extra on the Marseilles wharf in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).
- Quotes
Jane Austen: What if you do meet him
[the right man]
Jane Austen: and he doesn't have any money?
Fanny Austen-Knight: But if I love him then nothing else matters!
Jane Austen: What in heavens name gave you that idea?
Fanny Austen-Knight: It says so in all your books.
Edward Austen Knight: [gravely] If that's what you think they say, my dear, perhaps, you should read them again.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Real Jane Austen (2002)
- SoundtracksDrowsy Maggie
(uncredited)
Traditional
This movie is apparently very closely based on the few remaining letters between Jane, her sister Cassandra and her favourite niece Fanny; an assumption of those very intimate and loving letters, a sort of a hypothesis that Jane chose not to marry of her own, by refusing several marriage proposals to be able to write and for her 'freedom'. It is a very emancipated and 21st Century feminist friendly theory. Some hard- core Austen historians still insist though, that Jane never married because, in her very youth, she refused a marriage proposal from a very rich yet ugly, old and dull man...Mr Bigg...and then she was never asked again...for her no Mr. Darcy came along.
Therefore, biographically not fully bullet-proofed but historical events are accurate.
Love the many quotes incorporated in the movie!
I've never heard of Olivia Williams but I must say she earned all my admiration and will look out for her past and future works! Great actress!
If you like BBC period dramas or even Jane Austen's novels adaptations, then you most certainly will enjoy this; a great family-movie which will inspire the interested Teenager to read Jane Austen novels...(so I hope!)
- ursulahemard
- Jan 14, 2012
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- 珍奧絲汀的獨白
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- Syon House, Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK(Prince Regent's palace)
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