becoming jane
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the director of becoming jane talks about the making of his costume drama in ireland .
becoming jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress - up .
figure 3. jane austen (anne hathaway) comforts cassandra austen (anna maxwell martin in becoming jane (2007) .
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anne hathaway’s skilful portrayal of jane austen in becoming jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can .
i just watched becoming jane and cannot help but wonder whether i would run away with tom. how could you not? !
becoming jane cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of becoming jane actors includes any becoming jane actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view additional information about each becoming jane actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of becoming jane have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
becoming jane. dir. julian jarrold. perf. anne hathaway and james mcavoy. 2007. dvd. miramax, 2008 .
becoming jane is, without a doubt, the first jane austen film ever to require the services of 20 prostitutes, two pickpockets, one dead cock and some necromancers .
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... there' s a feeling with becoming jane that we have seen it all before... . many times .
,'' sleeping beauty' and the upcoming pixar theatrical release' wall•e.' there is no trailer for' becoming jane.'
i have been teasing you long enough. today, i am finally revealing becoming jane a complete 19th century regency costume for under $ 10 .
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becoming jane austen gives the fullest account we have of her falling in love with the charming young irishman tom lefroy .
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becoming jane leaves reality behind in its second half, and suffers for it – but it' s a pleasant enough flirtation with a literary great .
the film becoming jane has given us an image of jane austen that liberates our imagination. i envy readers of my book who come to it with anne hathaway’s image of jane in their mind’s eye. you will not have to struggle against the image cassandra created to see the jane austen who was young and pretty, lively and in love. anne hathaway’s skilful portrayal of jane austen in becoming jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can .
for all of us jane austen fans, becoming jane is another movie to add to your collection. anne hathaway herself studied austen while writing her thesis at vassar, so it' s no ...
philip french: becoming jane is a pleasant little movie that makes a great deal of a flirtation that austen had woth a charming irish lawyer around christmas 1795 .
first, let’s get a bit of research out of the way. becoming jane is set in 1795. this is what women’s fashion in 1795 looked like :
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much of the story of becoming jane takes place in and around the hampshire village of steventon, where jane austen' s father was the rector and where she lived for the first 25 years of her life .
harman, claire. jane’s fame: how jane austen conquered the world. edinburgh: canongate, 2009 .
the letters that jane wrote her sister cassandra at the time, and subsequent events that involved jane and tom .
like wright’s pride & prejudice, becoming jane stresses sisterly intimacy by depicting cassandra and jane in their shared bed. most poignantly, jane (played by anne hathaway) holds the sleeping cassandra (anna maxwell martin) shortly after the scene in which cassandra sobs out her grief at the death of her fiancé (see fig. 3). as when the preoccupied elizabeth leaves jane sleeping alone in wright’s film, becoming jane ’s jane austen leaves cassandra alone in bed twice: the first time to write, and the second to pack up for her own elopement with tom lefroy .
pitkeathley, jill. cassandra & jane: a jane austen novel. 2004. new york: harper, 2008 .
of course, the real treat of regency dress in becoming jane is, naturally, anne hathaway’s costumes. let’s see… she wore the lovely thick cotton - ish blue and red dresses ,
' becoming jane' is hardly a rigorous biopic of author jane austen, but as a charming romantic fantasy, it' s quite engaging and likable. this blu - ray showcases great video and audio, and a nice little package of extras. for fans of the genre, or those who just want to imagine what real - life romances might have inspired their favorite austen stories,' becoming jane' is worth checking out .
radovici (55) and farrell (8) suggest that tom named his first daughter, jane, after jane austen .
moser, nancy. just jane: a novel of jane austen’s life. bloomington, mn: bethany house, 2007 .
becoming jane is a love story inspired by the true romantic encounter between english literary heroine jane austen and tom lefroy, the future lord chief justice of ireland. we chat to james mcavoy, who plays lefroy, and julie walters, who offers fine support as jane' s mother, about making the film .
not many of us ever expect our homes to be viewed by millions of cinemagoers around the world, but christopher and hanne gray are prepared for this experience once becoming jane opens next week .
i love this article, although i am of course a little disappointed because i imagined that there would be more information about jane austen and thomas lefroy like becoming jane - the movie i watched last night, i still think this article helped alot. =) thanks !
i' m grateful for early interest in becoming jane jacobs and for the opportunity to talk about the book. here are some recent and upcoming talks. i will update the list from time to time .
directed by julian jarrold, and written by sarah williams and kevin hood, becoming jane concentrates on a small patch of jane austen' s existence: the time when she was 21 and fell in love with a dazzling stranger, tom lefroy, a trainee lawyer from ireland .
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spence meticulously unpacks the evidence available to him... and lays the probablilities before us in writing that is charged with its own kind of electricity. his great achievement is that by the end of becoming jane austen it is indeed possible to see how jane became jane austen, the great writer of english literature .
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the romantic premise of' becoming jane' is recycled from countless other romantic weepies. here again we have two people from opposite sides of life who everyone can see are clearly meant for each other, but who don’t realize it themselves, so they spend the whole movie bickering until they finally get hit by a bolt of enlightenment. it' s cute, and it' s slight, and it' s the weakest aspect of' becoming jane.' jane austen was one of the most fascinating women of the past two hundred years, not to mention perhaps the most biting social essayist of her time, but' becoming jane' veers awfully close to turning her into a whiny drip .
unlike miss potter, the whimsical biopic that centered around the little - known love life that inspired beatrix potter ’s work, becoming jane doesn’t have much in the way of actual history to back up its premise .
and while these fans’ enthusiasm is certainly noteworthy, those hoping for an entertaining romantic escape, rather than a historically accurate account of miss austen’s love life, will still find plenty to rave about in becoming jane .
nb. look for an extended discussion of these topics, which also involves debunking the related myth that jacobs was a
libertarian ,
in becoming jane jacobs and a forthcoming 2018 special issue of cities journal .
“' jon spence' s' becoming jane austen' is one of the best half - dozen books published on austen in the last quarter century.'' this is a book full of wisdom about [ jane austen ] and her art.' joseph wiesenfarth, jasna news” –
disney presents' becoming jane' in 1080p / avc mpeg - 4 video. it' s a very naturalistic film, with a gentle color palette and warm textures that come through quite nicely on blu - ray .
we were a distressed rectory again ,
laughs christopher gray - but he must be worrying about the risk of his family home becoming typecast .
so, jane austen at a boxing match? jane austen with prostitutes? heaven knows what austen devotees will make of becoming jane. rae is unfazed.' oh, we like popping our head above the parapet. what we' ve tried to do is convey the intelligence and energy and humour of the woman – to keep the integrity of the spirit of jane austen – but make her story and her passion more accessible.'
we don’t know how jane found out about tom’s engagement—whether anne lefroy told jane that tom was engaged, or even whether anne knew it herself .
austen, jane. the cambridge edition of the works of jane austen. ed. janet todd. cambridge: cup, 2005 - 2008 .
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becoming jane (2007) becoming jane is a 2007 british–irish historical biographical film directed by julian jarrold. it depicts the early life of english author jane austen and her perpetual love and regret with thomas langlois lefroy. american actress anne hathaway stars as the titular character, while her romantic interest is played by scottish actor james mcavoy. also appearing in the film are julie walters, james cromwell, and maggie smith. directed by: julian jarrold starring: anne hathaway, james mcavoy, julie walters, james cromwell, and maggie smith
from a miss jane austen fan i would never watch or buy that film becoming jane for it was nothing like the real miss jane austen and if i had my way it would never been made and the stupid lost in austen drama which should also should never been married. if you are to write sequels to miss jane austen novels read them first and stop ending things that mr darcy wouldnot do. may be it is time that people leave miss jane austen alone if you are cannot treat her with a respect .
with these links, it is likely both that news of tom drifted back to jane and that tom knew of jane’s doings and read her books .
i came across this article when researching a school project (on jane austen). i saw the movie a year ago and have been intrigued by the idea of jane and tom ever since. i bought the book it was based on (becoming jane austen: a life by: jon spence), and am still thouroughly convinced that jane and tom must have felt passionate feelings for each other. this was a very helpful and interesting article. : )
i adore jane austen' s books. becoming jane makes me cry everytime i watch it. i don' t know if tom and jane were serious about each other or not, or what actually happened. all i know is i wish they could have married. the movie is good. but so sad... . perhaps that' s why it' s so good .
jane eyre ends with jane’s marriage to rochester—“reader, i married him”—and then hiccups to the present tense, ten years later, where jane reports she is “ever together” with her husband. their hearts beat as one. they talk all day long. they have a baby son. but during those ten elided years jane must also have written jane eyre, and this is the intimate aspect of herself that she never shares: her life as a female writer. did rochester stand over jane’s shoulder as she wrote her autobiography? was the baby on her knee? where was the room of her own? of course the perplexity falls apart because the novel is not jane’s story but brontë’s story—and it is the texture of the space and time that charlotte spent writing jane eyre that propels kohler. and only that: becoming jane eyre is not, as some might hope, a literary biography with poetic license, awaiting its hollywood adaptation. it is a small daydream of a novel, a glorified collection of vignettes; ethereal, distant, unruffled by the events it relates, utterly unlike its inspiration: if jane eyre disappeared overnight, becoming jane eyre would be close to incomprehensible .
even so, becoming jane struck me as decidedly de trop in striving to make the austen character more faultlessly high - minded in her final decisions than any writer of genius should ever have to be, and probably wasn’t. mr. mcavoy’s lefroy is probably much closer to darcy in charm and panache than the real - life irish jurist could ever hope to be. becoming jane is not as good as the best austen films, but is much better than most mainstream movies on tap .
an ersatz
pride and prejudice
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becoming jane
is a finely tooled brit - lit costumer that, like anne hathaway' s flawless accent as the young austen, lacks only that final convincing 5% .
the austen family loved word play, and the name “tom jones” repeated in a letter by a “jane” about a “tom” is not far from “jane’s tom. ”
can' t get enough of jane austen' s pride and prejudice movies. this brings a new depth of understanding for what motivated jane. great movie !
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i too am a hopeless romantic. i enjoyed the movie
becoming jane
but was more interested in wanting to know the real jane austen. i too want to believe that the love was real, but thank you lori smith for helping to keep our feet on the ground. fantasy must always give way to truth .
jane jacobs leading a planning meeting for west village houses in may 1963. west village houses was the housing project she helped to develop after preventing an urban renewal plan for the neighborhood in 1961; the forty - two subsidized walk - up apartments opened in 1974. bob gomel, 1963. becoming jane jacobs, p. 298 .
on the note of jane being a family name, it is important to note that jane was also the name of tom' s mother - in - law .
while jane danced with tom lefroy, cassandra was with her fiancé, tom fowle, and jane may have suspected that her sister would read her letters to him .
allen f. davis, american heroine: the life and legend of jane addams (1973); daniel levine, jane addams and the liberal tradition (1973) .
“' becoming jane austen' is a good, traditional biography. clearly written, jargon - free and pleasant to read, it covers familiar ground without any sense of fatigue and makes the most of the material.' ~ peter washington, the literary review” –
and observes how contemporary documentary filmmaking ‘has in various ways returned to its more relaxed roots with dramatisation, performance, and other forms of fictionalisation and narrativisation becoming once more predominant. ’
with one significant exception, which occurs close to the end of jane’s life, miss austen regrets depicts the austen sisters’ closeness as emotional rather than corporeal. in contrast to becoming jane, cassandra and jane are separated for most of miss austen regrets: while cassandra remains at chawton cottage, often glimpsed taking care of domestic chores, jane travels repeatedly to godmersham and also spends time in london. there, at their brother henry’s house, we see jane chatting in bed with her niece fanny knight, who is portrayed by imogen poot as a starry - eyed, giddy young girl bent on love and marriage .
the house is somewhere between grand and modest. for the two films made here in 2006, becoming jane and northanger abbey, it played the part of a vicarage. in the recent book, ‘romantic irish homes’ *, it falls into the section ‘homes for gentry’ .
anne hathaway (the devil wears prada, the princess diaries) gives a radiant performance as a young, love - struck jane austen in the witty and engaging romantic comedy becoming jane from miramax films. it s the untold romance that inspired the novels of one of the world s most celebrated authors. when the dashing tom lefroy (james mcavoy, the last king of scotland), a reckless and penniless lawyer - to - be, enters jane s life, he offends the emerging writer s sense and sensibility. soon their clashing egos set off sparks that ignite a passionate romance and fuel jane s dream of doing the unthinkable marrying for love. becoming jane, also starring the acclaimed maggie smith, james cromwell and julie walters, is an enchanting and imaginative film you ll fall head over heels for
perhaps whoever it was had already tried and failed to reason with jane, or had left such a sensitive matter to the one person to whom they felt jane would attend .
becoming jane certainly is a fresh departure – jane austen kissing! – but the filmmakers have been careful to base the love affair on the truth as far as they see it.' it' s like dot - to - dot,' broadbent explains.' there are documented facts and we' ve joined the dots in our own austenesque landscape.'
i will examine two films and four novels, all of which were commercially released in 2007 and 2008. (two of the novels were republished in american editions from slightly earlier u. k. publication dates .) thanks to the prominence of its star, anne hathaway, and the efforts of its studio, miramax, becoming jane (2007) reached the widest audience of any of these sources, though the film was not notably successful in commercial terms. directed by julian jarrold from a screenplay by sarah williams and kevin hood, becoming jane takes its inspiration from jon spence’s inventive becoming jane austen (2003). like spence’s biography, becoming jane elaborates on the episode of austen’s young womanhood in which she flirted with tom lefroy. cassandra, played by anna maxwell martin, serves as a decidedly plain contrast to her radiant, passionate sister. the last years of austen’s life are the focus of miss austen regrets (2008), a television film directed by jeremy lovering from a screenplay by gwyneth hughes, for which austen’s letters are a primary, though uncredited, source. miss austen regrets tantalizes fans of austen film adaptations by featuring, as jane and cassandra, two actors who played roles in the two mid - 1990s versions of emma. to the delight of anyone who has pondered the similarities between jane fairfax and jane austen, olivia williams—the jane fairfax of diarmuid lawrence’s emma (1996) —appears in miss austen regrets as jane austen, while greta scacchi—mrs. weston in douglas mcgrath’s emma (1996) —appears as cassandra .
but becoming jane, was based on her life. her books, she wrote. someone else wrote becoming jane. of course the men in her books were great, but thats because she made them that way when writing them. there is not much to know about her history, because from what i have learned, her family destroyed many of her letters and she wasn' t even really know as a writer, because her name wasn' t on her books. so when jon spence wrote the book becoming jane, he obviously got as close to the truth as he could, with the limited information that any of us have. after i saw the movie, i looked into jane and tom' s history, but there really isn' t much that we know. but in real life sometimes the guy is wild, careless, and womanizing, even when you don' t want them to be .
the latest wheeze, in the surprisingly graceful becoming jane, is to take good old p & p' s storyline and replace elizabeth bennet with austen herself, add a real - life pseudo - darcy from the skimpiest of biographical evidence, and generally blow raspberries at austen fanatics .
in parallel fashion, edward and tom drew kitty and jane out of childhood into womanhood .
clarkson, cast as jane eyre at age 10, says ,
as a child, jane goes through a lot. she has no deviousness in her at all, but she gets through everything. i tried to let all the emotions that jane feels build up .
in a video on digital spy, jane eyre director cary fukunaga talks about directing jane eyre. on of the more interesting section is how he connects his earlier film ...
tomalin, claire. jane austen: a life. new york: knopf, 1997 .
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happy birthday, jane! here' s to many more years of your continued legacy .
in true austen style, syrie james weaves together a tale of a fifteen - year - old jane in her new story, jane austen’s first love. inspired by a letter written by jane austen to her sister, cassandra, and some true events, syrie' s imagination creates a lovely picture of when jane first meets edward taylor, someone whom just may have been jane austen’s first love. with the news of edward austen’s engagement to miss elizabeth bridges, jane, cassandra, charles and mrs. austen are off to kent to join i
as with the photography and production design, julian jarrold hoped to take a different view of austen - era costumes in becoming jane. for this, he worked with emmy - nominated irish costume designer eimer ní mhaoldomhnaigh (
david copperfield ,
the wind that shakes the barley) .
a good article for certain. people are often so touched that the temptation to have a daily reminder it is irrespressible. i am named after my mother' s prize possession, her doll, jane. believe it or not i look like her too. and from my own personal experience, being touched by love as jane may have been is both uplifting and tormenting. becoming jane has made me thankful and grateful about the choices i have as a women 2007 .
jane austen and thomas lefroy live their life without each other. later, we can see an older jane attending to a little opera show, at the end she recognizes tom lefroy going out fastly of the place as he saw jane. henry brings his old friend to his sister. as they meet again for the first time since they left eachother, tom presents his daughter to jane, who is now a big fan of the author. tom named his daughter jane. at the end, jane is reading her novel called
first impression
( that became later, pride and prejudice) at jane, thomas lefroy' s daughter .
yet when one thinks of all the earth - shattering events in austen’s lifetime—the american and french revolutions, washington and napoleon, waterloo and the congress of vienna—one is struck by the narrow focus of austen’s universe. there is a major character in becoming jane, eliza de feuillide (lucy cohu), whose husband has been guillotined in france during robespierre’s brief reign, but no one spends any time talking about the social implications of the incident. mme. de feuillide’s main task is to seduce jane’s brother into becoming her second husband, and to serve as jane’s confidante in matters of the heart. lefroy’s uncle, judge langlois (ian richardson), who denies his nephew’s request to be permitted to marry jane, is presented as a malignant hanging judge of the period .
anne hathaway' s (the devil wears prada, the princess diaries) radiant performance as a young, love - struck jane austen in the romantic comedy becoming jane is even more luminous on blu - ray. in this extraordinary format, the untold romance that inspired her novels is more captivating, the wit sharper, her private world more vivid. when the dashing tom lefroy (james mcavoy, the last king of scotland), enters jane' s life, he offends the emerging writer' s sense and sensibility. soon their clashing egos set off sparks that ignite a passionate romance and fuel jane' s dream of doing the unthinkable - marrying for love. also starring the acclaimed maggie smith, james cromwell and julie walters, the enchanting and imaginative becoming jane form miramax films brings all the pride and prejudice to exuberant life in blu - ray high definition .
after reading previous comments, i' ve decided not to conclude that jane and tom actually did have affair as there have been scare information to make this gap less broadened. what i would like to share is about the movie itself. becoming jane is truly beautiful romantic movie. i watched twilight and was completely dazzled by rob pattinson and' true love never die'. but after watching becoming jame, i was in agony. james mcavoy and ann hathaway are great. the scene i like best is when jane was looking for tom while dancing with the guy who was trying to win her affection. when tom suddenly popped up. . what a lovely surprise! !! !
thank you lisa for your thoughtful and sensitive detective work. what an incredible thing, to learn all about jane' s life in person in england! i' m a hopeless romantic and huge fan of ms. austen' s. just watched
becoming jane
for the first time. always interesting to learn to what extent a film like this takes various liberties with the plot .
he also claimed that “it seems fairly clear that jane made all the running” (152) .
however she heard, imagine cassandra’s consternation and her concern that jane’s behavior might drive tom away .
“jane austen’s irish friend: rt. hon. thomas langlois lefroy, 1776 - 1869. ”
a biographical portrait of a pre - fame jane austen and her romance with a young irishman .
james, syrie. the lost memoirs of jane austen. new york: avon, 2008 .
after a long career as a teacher and head teacher in state schools, jane worked as a consultant, leadership coach and diversities trainer before becoming a full - time student in 2008. she gained her mphil at the university of birmingham in 2009 and her phd in gender studies at sussex in 2014 .
jane graduated from high school in 1978, is married, and has two teenage children. most of jane' s friends from high school have children who have already graduated from college and gotten married, and some have grandchildren. jane and her former classmates are at different stages of the :
ultimately,' becoming jane' doesn' t surmount the lightness of its approach. it' s not a dumb movie, but it’s a shame it wasn' t more ambitious in scope, for the life of jane austen is so rich it begs for a complex treatment. it is still an entertaining film, one with moments of real wit and sexiness, and it' s certainly handsomely mounted.' becoming jane' can' t compare to the best cinematic adaptations of austen' s actual novels, such as the recent' pride & prejudice' and the oscar - winning' sense & sensibility,' but for fans of the author, it' s still an enjoyable little truffle .
i’m unsure about the hat on jane’s brother, henry. looks a tad too “indiana jones” for me. eliza’s hat, however, is fabulous. we’re going to pretend jane’s hat doesn’t exist .
addams, jane. “a modern lear. ” 1912. reprinted in, jean bethke elshtain, ed. jane addams and the dream of american democracy. new york: basic books, 2002 .
for someone who practically devoured every single jane austen novels in record time, i’ve never really been interested in reading her biography. my knowledge of her background is pretty much limited to her choice to be a single woman until she died. i did, however, see becoming jane; a movie about jane austen’s supposed love affair with the consummate bad boy, tom lefroy. i’ve always considered her to be a feminist way ahead of the times. and this is based on her characterization of elizabeth be
alas, there is a bit of noise on wide solid patches (though it' s slight), and shadow delineation sometimes flattens out due to a few inconsistent patches of over - brightness. these are not huge defects, however, and' becoming jane' holds up as a generally splendid transfer .
why does jane austen' s spinsterhood bug us so much? austen, who published six timelessly great novels between 1811 and 1818, never married and never exhibited much of a romantic life. nevertheless, the film becoming jane, which opens today, spins a yarn about the young novelist' s sexual awakening, suggesting that an early experience of being loved and left was the true source of her artistry .
heading to dc and the society for us intellectual history annual conference on thursday to talk about (becoming) jane jacobs and the intersection of ideas and esthetics in the mid 20th century. historian casey n. blake (son of jacobs' s colleague, the architect and author peter blake) is session chair .
i love jane and tom in becoming jane... their love is so mutual and pure, coming from two very clashing egos in the beginning! and the movie depicts it so well! i have cried so many times over this movie... my favorite scene is the dance scene, when she spins around and there' s tom! they can' t take their eyes off each other !
, which features a mature and professional jane austen and explores her relationship with her niece fanny knight .
but perhaps the most important reference in jane’s letters pointing back to “catharine” is the word “profligate. ”
although we don’t know what was to become of kitty and edward, jane and cassandra presumably did .
cassandra’s role as an early editor of jane’s literary legacy has recently been explored by sutherland and harman .
— jane jacobs, the death and life of great american cities (1961, p. 284 )
it is a great honor to announce that becoming jane jacobs is the winner of the 2016 jane jacobs urban communication book award, as announced at the urban communication foundation' s annual conference in philadelphia last week. it is an honor for the book to be included among distinguished past winners of the award, and to be the recipient of an award named for the great urbanist! the reviewers said of the book :
now a new angle has opened up: becoming jane, the £9 million film opening next month, focuses on the woman herself.' her story is as real and romantic as any of her greatest novels,' enthuses douglas rae of ecosse films, the london - based company that produced and developed the film .
becoming jane is based on a chapter in jon spence' s 2003 critical biography, becoming jane austen. in the book, spence does identify tom lefroy as the love of austen' s life and her relationship with him as the origin of her genius. but he never suggests that there was an aborted elopement (much less subsequent reading sessions with any of lefroy' s children). and he is careful, as the filmmakers are not, to clarify that in speculating about austen' s romantic experience he is reading between the lines of the family records and of the three rather opaque austen letters that are his principal sources .
two new biographies—laurence’s becoming jane jacobs, a close, vivid study of jacobs’s intellectual development, and robert kanigel’s broader eyes on the street: the life of jane jacobs —as well as an anthology of previously uncollected articles and speeches, vital little plans: the short works of jane jacobs, and jane jacobs: the last interview and other conversations correct the record. by the time she published her masterpiece, at the age of 45, she had been writing about urban redevelopment for nearly a decade in dozens of lengthy articles for architectural forum. before that she had written about, and in direct service of, american democracy .
becoming jane ,
is the story of the great, untold romance that inspired a young jane austen, played by anne hathaway. willful and spirited, jane is not ready to be tied down to anything but her writing. that is until she meets tom lefro, a charming rogue from london who spends more time drinking and socializing than on his law studies. the film also stars julie walters, james cromwell and maggie smith. it is written by sarah williams and kevin hood, and directed by julian jarrold .
though cassandra and jane share little screen time in miss austen regrets, this film does establish that cassandra not only appreciates jane’s writing, as in becoming jane, but actively facilitates it. three brief scenes underline these acts of cassandra’s, as well as highlighting the two sisters’ very different daily tasks. in the first, jane reads a passage from persuasion to cassandra, who weeps over it while gutting a chicken. “i don’t know how you can sit there with dry eyes, ” says cassandra (played by greta scacchi). “i never weep over anything that might make me some money, ” replies jane (olivia williams), with a glint in her eye. in the second, jane works on her manuscript of persuasion while cassandra comes in to set the table. shortly after that, in the aftermath of an insult to jane from mrs. austen (who calls her younger daughter “hardly a woman at all”), cassandra assures jane that she is “happy too. ” “stuck here, looking after mother, and me? ” presses jane. “well, someone has to do it, ” cassandra replies, apparently without any rancor .
i love syrie james... . not like i love jane austen but i still adore her. she' s great at capturing jane' s voice that i feel like i' ve found another piece of jane for awhile. my absolute favorite of syrie' s is the lost memoirs of jane austen but i think that after reading this book, i prefer the older voice of austen. i still really enjoyed this book though. it was nice seeing how a younger version of jane might have been .
from a miss jane austen fan when i sent the one before i forgot to check the spellings before it was sent. so this is what it was ment to say. i would never watch or buy that film becoming jane for it was nothing like the real miss jane austen. if i had my way it would had never been made and the other stupid one is the itv drama lost in austen which also should never been made. if you are these womane that write pride and prejudice sequels stop adding sex in the novel which miss jane austen would never had liked to happen to her dear novel. may be it is time that people leave miss jane austen alone if you cannot even respect her novels. another thing may be someone by the name lori smith read more books about miss jane austen before she trys to write a book about her. miss jane austen never meet a gentleman in devon it was lyme so get it right before you think you should write a book on miss jane austen. what was wrong with kaira knightley playing the part of miss jane austen for she is more like her then the person that played her .
becoming jane
is the story of the great, untold romance that inspired a young jane austen, played by anne hathaway. willful and spirited, jane is not ready to be tied down to anything but her writing. that is until she meets tom lefroy (james mcavoy), a charming rogue from london who spends more time drinking and socializing than on his law studies. the film also stars julie walters, james cromwell and maggie smith. it is written by sarah williams and kevin hood, and directed by julian jarrold .
a dull exercise in deconstructing jane austen' s life to provide a life experience basis for her novels .
jane expresses neither contrition nor apology and fairly bursts with pride for “my irish friend” and “my friend. ”
yet that evidence seems to have become an obstacle to his visiting jane more often, thwarting further acquaintance .
the “different set” austen refers to was a hampshire gathering—the ashe lefroys and steventon austens—a set now very freshly and painfully decimated by the deaths of jane’s father in january 1805 and of anne on jane’s birthday in 1804 .
it is more likely that tom’s daughter was named for his mother - in - law, jane paul .
200 years after her untimely death, this is what we think of when we think of jane austen .
see also karen b. gevirtz, ‘ (de) constructing jane: converting “austen” in film responses’ ,
and, of course, jane’s frequent, chatty letters to cassandra establish that the sisters were dedicated correspondents .
sutherland, kathryn. jane austen’s textual lives: from aeschylus to bollywood. oxford: oup, 2005 .
addams, jane. “if men were seeking the elective franchise. ” 1913. reprinted in jean bethke elshtain, ed. jane addams and the dream of american democracy. new york: basic books, 2002 .
addams, jane. “the subjective necessity for social settlements. ” 1893. reprinted in, jean bethke elshtain, ed. jane addams and the dream of american democracy. new york: basic books, 2002 .
brown, victoria bissell. the education of jane addams. philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, 2004 .
addams, jane. “a function of the social settlement. ” 1899. reprinted in christopher lasch, ed. the social thought of jane addams. indianapolis: the bobbs - merrill company, inc. , 1965 .
addams, jane. “the objective value of the social settlement. ” 1893. reprinted in, jean bethke elshtain, ed. jane addams and the dream of american democracy. new york: basic books, 2002 .
in 1879, an orphan girl named felice dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees rural brittany with the orphan boy, corentin, setting out for paris, where she assumes another identity and becomes a pupil at the grand opera house .
but then becoming jane, as we discover, is a surprising film in many ways. despite the richness of the austen film industry – seven adaptations in the past 12 years (not including clueless, a modern spin - off from emma) – the handicap has always been that austen wrote only six books, so source material is limited .
the authentic period features and elegance of the king’s inns building has attracted many cinema and television productions over the years to include: “becoming jane” with anne hathaway and maggie smith; “evelyn” brought us pierce brosnan, aidan quinn and stephen rea; and the “ordinary decent criminal” brought us the incredible mr. kevin spacey and our very own colin farrell .
he is right. for all its modernity and innovative camerawork, becoming jane has an old - fashioned theme: first love. peel away the 18th - century props and the literature, and what you have is an un - adorned love affair, which works on the same principle that has fuelled stories from romeo and juliet to casablanca – a doomed romance. jane and lefroy ache to embrace, but know that they are destined not to be together .
it is not clear why ray assumes tom had met mary paul at least two years before he met jane .
whatever reason tom had for not marrying jane—his uncle’s disapproval, his loyalty to and prior love of anglo ireland and an irish fiancée—he did not inform anne lefroy (or, by extension, jane) that he was engaged .
from jane’s description, we can also infer that anne lefroy was there, too, watching her daughter ride .
the veiled references to “catharine” may also have been a way for jane to invoke kitty’s difficulty in reading edward .
we can never know for sure what happened between jane and tom that winter or in the years that followed .
of course even without his death she would have inherited much more than jane austen could ever have hoped for .
alison owen states ,
i would not have made jane eyre unless we had the right person to play jane. this is not a role that you can shoehorn somebody into. both cary fukunaga and i wanted someone with a natural affinity for the character, and who was of a comparable age to the jane of the novel .
le faye, deirdre. jane austen: a family record. 2nd ed. cambridge: cup, 2004 .
elshtain, jean bethke. ed. , the jane addams reader. new york: basic books, 2002 .
< i > becoming jane < / i >, is the story of the great, untold romance that inspired a young jane austen, played by anne hathaway. willful and spirited, jane is not ready to be tied down to anything but her writing. that is until she meets tom lefroy (james mcavoy), a charming rogue from london who spends more time drinking and socializing than on his law studies. the film also stars julie walters, james cromwell and maggie smith. it is written by sarah williams and kevin hood, and directed by julian jarrold .
an ersatz “pride and prejudice” in all but name, “becoming jane” is a finely tooled brit - lit costumer that, like anne hathaway’s flawless accent as the young austen, lacks only that final convincing 5% . taking the few facts known about a “romantic encounter” between the budding young scribe and a dashing irishman, pic cleverly constructs a [ … ]
mrs weston, capital in her country - dances, was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz; and frank churchill, coming up with most becoming gallantry to emma, had secured her hand, and led her up to the top .
veronica bennett declares at the conclusion of cassandra’s sister that “jane would appreciate the irony that it is cassandra, who, by keeping the facts from us, has given us what jane herself so cherished—the power of imagination” (230). how we imagine jane and cassandra austen reveals how we imagine ourselves, as austen readers and austen fans .
to explain why, i’d like to share with you some of my discoveries about her life and work, and some of my intentions in writing becoming jane jacobs — discoveries and intentions that i believe offer some new understanding of not just her life and work, but her experiences and ideas, and, perhaps most importantly, the development of those ideas .
' becoming jane' gets an uncompressed pcm 5. 1 surround track (48khz / 24 - bit), and if the film' s sound design is laid - back, it still has its small pleasures. (also provided are french and spanish dolby digital 5. 1 surround dubs, as well as english sdh and french and spanish subtitles. )
' becoming jane' is hitting blu - ray day - and - date with the standard - def dvd, and the pair share the same extras. all the video material (except for the trailers) is presented in 480p / i / mpeg - 2 video only, and subtitle options on all the bonus features include english, french, and spanish .
in case you thought jane austen was a fusty spinster who spent her downtime doing crochet, becoming jane should relieve you of this notion. mercifully, director julian jarrold resists turning a literary icon into a 19th century bridget jones, but this story does take a few flights of somewhat dubious fancy in speculating on her relationship with the real mr darcy. it' s just as well that, in the title role, anne hathaway is a romantic heroine of delightfully dignified verve .
interesting post... thank you! i just saw becoming jane last night and thought is was only ok. it was like a jane austen movie, yet without jane' s spark of language (which made me realize how important words are to her stories, as well as the best adaptations). it' s intriguing that you post that she may have been joking or sarcastic when speaking of tom. could you imagine someone going through your letters in 200 years, and attaching a great romance to a trifling flirtation that you may not remember within 20 years. interesting theory!
becoming jane is a 2007 british-irish biographical romantic drama film directed by julian jarrold . it depicts the early life of the english author jane austen and her lasting love for thomas langlois lefroy . american actress anne hathaway stars as the title character , while her romantic interest is played by scottish actor james mcavoy . also appearing in the film are julie walters , james cromwell and maggie smith . the film was produced in cooperation with several companies , including ecosse films and blueprint pictures . it also received funding from the irish film board and the uk film council premiere fund . the film is partly based on the 2003 book becoming jane austen by jon hunter spence , who was also hired as historical consultant . the final screenplay , developed by sarah williams and kevin hood , pieced together some known facts about austen into a coherent story , in what co-producer graham broadbent called " our own austenesque landscape . " according to hood , he attempted to weave together " what we know about austen 's world from her books and letters , " and believed austen 's personal life was the inspiration for pride and prejudice . jarrold began production of the film in early 2006 , opting to shoot primarily in ireland as he found it had better-preserved locations than hampshire , england , where austen was raised . released firstly in the united kingdom on 9 march 2007 and in other countries later in the year , becoming jane earned approximately $ 37 million worldwide . the film received mixed reviews from critics . hathaway 's performance received mixed critical reception , with some reviewers negatively focusing on her nationality and accent . commentators and scholars have analysed the presence of austen characters and themes within the film , and also noted the implementation of mass marketing in the film 's release . 
becoming jane is a 2007 british-irish biographical romantic drama film directed by julian jarrold. it depicts the early life of the english author jane austen and her lasting love for thomas langlois lefroy. american actress anne hathaway stars as the title character, while her romantic interest is played by scottish actor james mcavoy. also appearing in the film are julie walters, james cromwell and maggie smith. the film was produced in cooperation with several companies, including ecosse films and blueprint pictures. it also received funding from the irish film board and the uk film council premiere fund. the film is partly based on the 2003 book becoming jane austen by jon hunter spence, who was also hired as historical consultant. the final screenplay, developed by sarah williams and kevin hood, pieced together some known facts about austen into a coherent story, in what co-producer graham broadbent called " our own austenesque landscape. " according to hood, he attempted to weave together " what we know about austen's world from her books and letters, " and believed austen's personal life was the inspiration for pride and prejudice. jarrold began production of the film in early 2006, opting to shoot primarily in ireland as he found it had better-preserved locations than hampshire, england, where austen was raised. released firstly in the united kingdom on 9 march 2007 and in other countries later in the year, becoming jane earned approximately $ 37 million worldwide. the film received mixed reviews from critics. hathaway's performance received mixed critical reception, with some reviewers negatively focusing on her nationality and accent. commentators and scholars have analysed the presence of austen characters and themes within the film, and also noted the implementation of mass marketing in the film's release.
becoming jane is a 2007 british-irish biographical romantic drama film directed by julian jarrold. it depicts the early life of the english author jane austen and her lasting love for thomas langlois lefroy. american actress anne hathaway stars as the title character, while her romantic interest is played by scottish actor james mcavoy. also appearing in the film are julie walters, james cromwell and maggie smith. the film was produced in cooperation with several companies, including ecosse films and blueprint pictures. it also received funding from the irish film board and the uk film council premiere fund. the film is partly based on the 2003 book becoming jane austen by jon hunter spence, who was also hired as historical consultant. the final screenplay, developed by sarah williams and kevin hood, pieced together some known facts about austen into a coherent story, in what co-producer graham broadbent called " our own austenesque landscape. " according to hood, he attempted to weave together " what we know about austen's world from her books and letters, " and believed austen's personal life was the inspiration for pride and prejudice. jarrold began production of the film in early 2006, opting to shoot primarily in ireland as he found it had better-preserved locations than hampshire, england, where austen was raised. released firstly in the united kingdom on 9 march 2007 and in other countries later in the year, becoming jane earned approximately $ 37 million worldwide. the film received mixed reviews from critics. hathaway's performance received mixed critical reception, with some reviewers negatively focusing on her nationality and accent. commentators and scholars have analysed the presence of austen characters and themes within the film, and also noted the implementation of mass marketing in the film's release.