Status Updates From Jane Austen's Sanditon: Wit...

"The ITV mini-series of Sanditon that I watched on PBS Masterpiece should have ended with season one. It was tragic---unrequited love. Season 2 was horrible.

Anna Lefroy: Anna Austen, later Lefroy, inherited Jane Austen's manuscript from her aunt Cassandra.

Anna Lefroy to Andrew Davies: Continuations of Sanditon.

"There was vanity in all they did, as well as in all they endured."

Unfortunate turn toward quack medicine by Parker siblings.

I can see where this was Austen's 'Ninth Symphony' so much appears to be about the pain she was suffering towards the end of her life, but trying to put on a overtly brave face.

"Charlotte's feelings were divided between amusement and indignation, but indignation had the larger and the increasing share. She kept her countenance and she kept a civil silence."

Oh, the subject of poetry as discussed by Sir Edward.

They have only weaker constitutions and stronger minds than are often met with, either seperate or together.----

"Beauty, sweetness, poverty and dependence do not want the imagination of a man to operate upon. With due exceptions, woman feels woman very promptly and compassionately."

Far from wishing their children to do the same, they were glad to promote "their" getting out into the world, as much as possible. "They" stayed at home, that their children "might" get out; and while making that home extremely comfortable, welcomed every change from it which could give useful connections or respectable acquaintance to sons or daughters.

I've now finished the first half of the book with the essay by Janet Todd now on to the actual novel (fragment) of Sanditon.