"To you I shall say, as I have often said before, do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before."
Jane Austen, to her single niece, Fanny Knight. After Jane Austen's death, "the right man" did "come at last." Fanny married him when she was 27 years old and had nine children! She lived into her 80s, a mother and grandmother (and probably a great-grandmother too).
Aunt Jane advises: Don't give up hope, girls!
And go here to look at some beautiful illustrations from Jane Austen's novels!
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Did you see the "Miss Austen Regrets" on the Masterpiece Theatre? I loved that movie. I had never see anything about Jane's life before, but I really enjoyed it!
Noooo ... how come I don't know about 'Miss Austen Regrets'?!? I've never even heard of it before ... what is it?!? Is it anything like 'Becoming Jane'? From what you say, I guess it's a biographical movie ... a drama or a documentary? What was it about? What was it like? Care to share?!? :->
:) It was a movie on Masterpiece Theatre. It was about Jane, obviously, but it started toward the middle of her life, after she'd already written three of her books (Pride and Prejudiced, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park). In the movie she finishes writing Emma and Persuasion.
At the beginning of the movie you see her getting engaged and the next few minutes she's broken off the engagement. And in the movie, she lives with that regret the rest of her life. (Thus part of the reason for the title).
It also shows how she and her niece Fanny are very silly and some times very uncontrolled. The way that Jane and Fanny act around one of Fanny's beaus causes him to rethink how Fanny feels about him and he marries a different girl. Fanny is crushed.
I thought, over all it was a very good movie. My younger sister and I loved it. We giggled, laughed, sighed and were sad. I liked it very much. I don't know how accurately it portrayed her life because I've never read anything about her, aside from the little snip-its in her books.
I have never seen "Becoming Jane" but from what I've heard "Miss Austen Regrets" could be very similar. Are you planning to see "Becoming Jane"?
Hope that answers your questions. :) Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you!
Ooh ... thank you ... you're so sweet! :-> I wonder how I missed hearing or reading about 'Miss Austen Regrets'? Oh well ... ! I'll have to see if I can rent it. It sounds interesting. And I like most things Jane Austen! :-> Thank you for writing me such a nice long review! I haven't see 'Becoming Jane', but I'd like to! One day ... ! :-> Thank you again for answering my questions so beautifully! :-> Have a great weekend, Ana!
I was just thinking of this quote recently! :) I love it!
I know ... I love it too! :-D
I just discovered your blog! Thanks! Pop on over sometime!
~Rebecca~
Rebecca, hello and welcome! :-> Thanks for the invitation; I'll be sure to pop over soon! :->
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