Yes, we think Miss Austen does have regrets, though usually she's denying them to everyone around her. Hugh Bonneville says he would have 'let' her continue to write when they were married - she claims the duties of marriage and family would have prevented it. That may be so, but poor Jane is in tough years as family wealth crumbles around her, and in a strong scene her mother (Phyllida Law) berates her for not marrying and being in the position where they're going to lose their cottage... As it turns out she isn't long for this world.. And she has the constant frustration of not being paid enough from the publishers.
Jane (Olivia Williams) sometimes comes over as more acerbic than witty, and doesn't help her niece Imogen Poots' quest for romance at all, so it's quite well written (Gwyneth Hughes) in that Life is not Literature. (Hughes also wrote
The Girl and
Remember Me, so ...)
With Greta Scacchi, Pip Torrens, Tom Hiddlestone, Tom Goodman-Hill, Adrian Edmonson, Sylvie Herbert (French lady), Jack Huston (doctor), Jason Watkins (Prince Regent's librarian).
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