Airing February 3, 2008 on PBS check local listings
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
— Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility
Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen (Olivia Williams, Emma, The Sixth Sense) appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny (Imogen Poots) to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's confident composure is threatened as she finds herself looking back on her own potential suitors and the choices she has made. Could potential family financial ruin have been averted if she'd accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner? And what about the handsome young physician Jane meets as a result of a family illness?
Based on the life and letters of Jane Austen, Miss Austen Regrets tells the story of the novelist's final years, examining why, despite setting the standard for romantic fiction, she died having never married or met her own Mr. Darcy.
For the first time on US television, Masterpiece presents adaptations of all the Jane Austen novels and a new biopic of her life.
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Miss Austen Regrets
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Explore Austen's world and her enduring legacy:
Austen Biography
Learning Resources
Teacher's Guide
(Sense and Sensibility DVD includes Miss Austen Regrets)
Funding for Masterpiece is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.
Pride and Prejudice is a production of BBC Television and BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. in association with A&E Networks. The Masterpiece Theatre broadcast of Pride and Prejudice is the first in the U.S. other than on A&E Television Networks.