In which the Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness’s summer holiday ends with a bang
A visitor posted a link to Hanway Films’ site. The company apparently is involved somehow with BECOMING JANE, and has a summary of the film on its site. (Click on Our Films, Current Films, and then Becoming Jane–and it’s a Flash site, so one must have the appropriate equipment on one’s fancy thinking box.)
BATTER UP!
22-year-old Jane Austen is in a spot of trouble.
Isn’t this about Jane and Tom Lefroy? That would be January 1796; Jane would have been not one and twenty. (Barely twenty, actually.) Yes, we know, quibbling, quibbling; but heck, if you’re gonna P&P it up, why not go all the way?
Jane’s older sister is happily married,
WHAT? (she shrieked in stunned disbelief) (more…)
