James Stanier Clarke to make appearance in Miss Austen Regrets
Found in one of those serendipitous things while looking for something else:
According to his agency CV, Jason Watkins, whom some of our Gentle Readers may remember as Charlie Parker-Knowles in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, will portray “Rev. Clarke,” we assume to mean James Stanier Clarke, in Miss Austen Regrets.
As the Rev. Mr. Clarke’s exchange of letters with Jane Austen amuses us to no end, we are pretty much down with that. We are still concerned about the whole regretting-past-suitors plot, though.
Related post: James Stanier Clarke’s “Friendship Book” – another view of Jane?
woah – massive casting update at IMDb. New names with characters attached, so looks like it was updated by someone with an insight into the production
Hugh Bonneville listed some cast members on his official site (which makes it, um, official) but didn’t say what part they were playing. Someone might have sent them in speculatively. (Might even have been from here!)
I just discovered this connection between Austen (why do they call her ‘ostin’ when the name is ‘orsten;?), which is interesting to me since I’m just cataloguing an autograph letter in my small collection. It is a signed autograph letter from James Stanier Clarke to his printer about naval books; doesn’t mention Jane unfortunately!