1、Becoming Jane Directed byJulian Jarrold Produced byGraham BroadbentRobert BernsteinDouglas RaeWritten byKevin HoodSarah WilliamsStarringAnne Hathaway James McAvoyJulie WaltersJames CromwellMaggie SmithRelease Day9 March 2007PlotThe younger daughter of Mr Austen and his wife wishes to be a writer and
2、 dreams of doingsomething what was then nearly unthinkable-marrying for love.She meets a promising but rebellious trainee lawyer on her age of 20.And then an Elizabeth/Darcy-esque love affair happenes between Jane and the lawyer,Tom Lefroy.Tom makes a bad first impression upon meeting Jane.They deba
3、te in the woods and compete in the cricket games.They fall in love with each other.Jane then begins the writing of First Impressions,the manuscript that will become Pride and Prejudice.The opposition from Toms uncle,on whom Tom financially depends,forces them to elope.But Jane eventually gives up an
4、d runs away from Tom for his reputation and career.Twenty years later Jane encounters Tom after a gathering.Though shes never read in public,she makes a exception for Toms daughter who admires Janes novels.Postscript In her short life,Jane Austen wrote six of the greatest novels in England.Tom Lefro
5、y became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.Jane died on July 18,1817 in Winchester and buried in Winchester Cathedral.Becoming a Legend“Shakespeare has had neither equal or second.But among the writers who,in the point which we have noticed,have approached nearest to the manner of the great master,we ha
6、ve no hesitation in placing Jane Austen,a woman of whom England is justly proud.”Thomas Babington Macaulay（英国史）“Miss Austen understood the smallness of life to perfection.She was a great artist,equal in her small sphere to Shakespeare.”Alfred Tennyson（悼念）“Emma Woodhouse and Anne Elliot give us as gr
7、eat an impression of passionthat celebrated qualityas the ladies of G.Sand and Balzac.”Henry James（鸽翼）“We can hardly bear to recall the emotions of twenty or fifteen years ago,hardly at all,whereas we respond again quite vividly to the emotions of Jane Austen or Dickens,nearly a hundred years ago.”D
8、.H.Lawrence（查泰莱夫人的情人）“The most perfect artist among women,the writer whose books are immortal,died“just as she was beginning to feel confidence in her own success.”Virginia Woolf（戴洛维夫人）Jane austen was born on 16 December,1775,at the rectory in the village of Steventon,in Hampshire.She was educated m
9、ainly at home by her father and brothers.Austens Hometown This house in Chawton is where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life with her sister Cassandra.In 1949 the house was opened as the Jane Austens house museum.Austens House MuseumAustens House Museum(1811)(1813)(1814)(1815)(1818)(1818)Master WorksThe theme are mostly about love and marriage in the view of women.The language is simple,humorous,witty and with quiet irony.She was really a writer of the earlier realist school.Writing StyleTHANK YOU!祝您成功！
