No English novelist is more closely associated with the wedding plot than Jane Austen. This literary trope convention that has become Rom-Com gives a structure to its six masterpieces-which shows that the Romanesque genre, far from being a simple escape, can be an ideal lens through which the values of a society. But another universally recognized truth about Austen complicates happy weddings that conclude each book: the author has never been married. She spared her heroines the social and financial precariousness she suffered.
The realities of single femininity in Regency England, and for the Austen family in particular, are at the center of Miss AustenAn adaptation of the BBC in four parts of the novel by Gill Hornby in 2020 which will be presented in the United States on May 4 on PBS Masterpiece. Set more than a decade after Jane's premature death, this historic fictitus follows her older (and the only) sister sister, Cassandra, portrayed with sensitivity by Keeley Hawes, and imagines the circumstances that led her to Destroy thousands of personal letters from the author. His main characters are unmarried women. If you can exceed the mannered rigidity typical of Masterpiece The price, he relaxes while he evolves in a insightful and affectionate portrait of the kind of life that Austen lived but barely written.
Lonely at the average age, Cassandra de Hawes – also never married – is awakened with a comfortable routine to speak to goats and read in bed when a letter informs him of the imminent death of a family friend. Against the advice of her correspondent, she rushes towards the bedside of Fulwar Fowle (Felix Scott). Cassandra has a story with the Fowles; She was engaged to Fulwar's brother, Tom (played in Calam Lynch flashbacks) before dying during an expedition to the Antilles. But it is not the sentimentality, for the most part, motivates it to make the trip. “There are certain personal articles that belong here,” she said to the servant. Namely, the letters that Jane wrote at the late wife of Fulwar, Eliza, a friend close to the girls of Austen.
Of course, she finds them, and the letters transport her to the youth of the girls, with the young Cassandra played by Synnøve Karlsen and Jane by a wonderfully animated Patsy Ferran, rekindling precious memories, but also revealing the author's unlimited thoughts on the choices of her sister. There may be too many Hawes costume costume costume drivers looking in tears on yellow fixing leaves. But they are worth it as a conduit for Cassandra and Jane 20s, a period when the two women aligned suitors; The young Austen grew up in her voice as a writer, thanks in part to the encouragement of the elder; And everyone appeared as the most important person in the life of the other. What seems to injure the most Cassandra adult, in the letters, is Jane's frustration in the face of her sister's rejection of a love match worthy of Pride and prejudices. “She chose insecurity,” wrote Jane to Eliza. “I did it for you too,” whispers Cassandra, a half-life later. Let us even know the name Jane Austen If she had not taken care of the lively writer but also fragile and depressive in life and her work in death?
Elsewhere at the Fowles home, Kintbury, Mary Austen (Jessica Hynes), the haughty widow of Cassandra's brother, James, is animated with notions of commissioning a joint biography of Jane and her late husband. And in the wake of the death of Fulwar, his conscientious daughter Isabella (Rose Leslie) prepares the residence for the arrival of a replacement vicar (Mr. Dundas slightly ridiculous by Thomas Coombs), while looking at her own uncertain future. Cassandra has promised Fulwar that she will install it with one of her other daughters, but no situation seems ideal. (A bizarre sister Fowle is a highlight of the show.) She also notices the romantic tension between Isabella and the local doctor, Mr. Lidderdale (Alfred Enoch).
With its artificial conclusion, this last scenario puts an arc somewhat poorly suited to the series. What persists after its dissipation are the experiences of so many single women, other widows, others have never been married. The Isabella ceremony ejection of the house where she grew up. Mary's fixation on the commemoration of the doubtful talents of James. The real link between Isabella and his servant, Dinah (Mirren Mack). The adversity Cassandra, Jane and their mother faced after the death of the Patriarch of Austen. Jane's inability to accept a loveless marriage that would finance a high lifestyle, but would deprive him of time to write. The life protection of Cassandra de Jane – such a fierce devotion, in Hornby's scenario, he pushes her to destroy thousands of writing pages by one of the greatest authors who ever walked on earth. Austen's wedding plots reward its right heroines, granting them the love and the company they want as well as the wealth and respectability they need in a society that attaches too much value to superficial things. In particular in the chronicle of the sacrifices that Cassandra made with Jane with Jane, Miss Austen suggests that there was always more in a woman to lead a fulfilling life.
