Yes, She Would Regret

Just finished watching one of my Jane Austen movies. Miss Austen Regrets. And I think that she quite possibly might have regretted this movie had she seen it. SO depressing. I've decided that I don't like movies based on author's lives. The people who write the screenplays always have to draw some parallel between the books they wrote and their lives, so that people can walk away going, Oooh, THAT must have been the inspiration. Generally I don't believe them. And it irritates me that there are people out there that take these silly movies as the authority on someone's life. Jane Austen's sister burnt her letters. No one KNOWS. It was all speculation. And isn't that kind of gossip and speculation the kind of thing that Jane Austen laughed at?