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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 25 min. 15 sec.) ; 515424284 bytes |
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Jane Austen's novels about marriage are firmly established as literary classics. But what of the love life of the woman who penned the famous novels?As this drama opens, Jane (Olivia Williams) is a published novelist. With Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park much admired and Emma close to completion, Jane has found success as a writer. But the novelist herself, now nearing her forties, has never married.To her niece, Fanny Knight (Imogen Poots) - a young, pretty girl desperate to fall in love - Jane is a favourite aunt who offers the wisdom and knowledge that will help her in her own search for a happy marriage. But surely the woman so capable of writing love on the page must have experienced love herself? Fanny is determined to find out the truth behind Jane's youth.Jane surrenders little to her niece, but secrets there are, and Jane is forced to examine afresh the reasons why she has remained single. There was Harris Bigg, whose proposal she did accept amid much general rejoicing, but then rejected. Edward Brydges (Hugh Bonneville) who would have been an ideal companion, but left his declarations too late. And the crush on the young surgeon Mr Haden, accompanied by the painful realisation that she is now too old to have any choice left about her eligibility.Based on actual letters and diaries, this drama unravels the secrets of this elusive woman.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A BBC Films/WGBH Boston co-production. Written by Gwenyth Hughes. Directed by Jeremy Lovering. Produced by Annie Pivcevic and Jamie Laurenson |
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Broadcast 2009-11-15 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Social classes.
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Young women.
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England.
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Streaming video
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Bonneville, Hugh, cast
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Edmondson, Adrian, cast
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Herbert, Sylvie, cast
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Hiddleston, Tom, cast
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Huston, Jack, cast
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Law, Phyllida, cast
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Lovering, Jeremy, director
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Poots, Imogen, cast
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Scacchi, Greta, cast
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Tatum, Sally, cast
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Torrens, Pip, cast
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Watkins, Jason, cast
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Williams, Olivia, cast
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