![]() ![]() ![]() This “lady” was later revealed to be Marie Dobbs, an Australian-born author who lived and worked in many countries yet gained most fame for her version of the small, minutely observed world of Jane Austen and her creation of the seaside town of Sanditon. No further plot outlines or developments were left but in the mid 1970’s the anonymous “another lady” who was “an established author in her own right” had a go at completing the work and has done a remarkably good job. It is this fragment which Andrew Davies chose to finish for television, in his style. It took until 1925 for the unfinished work to be published for the first time. Midway through Chapter 11 she became unable to continue due to ill- health and passed away in July of that year. Jane Austen probably intended it to be her seventh novel beginning it in early 1817 and of which the first approximately 26,000 words survive. I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Andrew Davies adaptation for ITV and was fascinated to find out more about what was actually just a fragment of a novel. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |