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Article: Road to 'Becoming Jane'
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- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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Jane Austen has seen a lot of Hollywood love in recent years. Film versions of "Sense and Sensibility," "Emma," and "Pride and Prejudice" have garnered critical raves and Oscar nominations. Now, in the new film "Becoming Jane" the author herself steps into the spotlight.
Much like 1998's acclaimed "Shakespeare in Love," "Becoming Jane" proposes that a love affair early in life became the inspiration for the author's greatest work. In Austen's case, the romance was with a dashing Irishman named Tom Lefroy. Their passionate affair, the film tells us, helped inspire Jane to pen her masterpiece, "Pride and Prejudice."
It's a lovely tale, one that Austen herself would have delighted in. But did ...