Miss Austen to air in May, 2025! Barb's Tea Service had the scoop in 2021. We loved the book, we can't wait for the film!

 

We're ready with remote control and teacup for Miss Austen, May, 2025

Miss Austen is coming to Masterpiece Theater in 2025 and we've been waiting patiently for four years!

In 2021, we featured Gil Hornsby's book, "Miss Austen" in a Barb's Tea Service's "Tuesday Tea and Tomes":  Miss Austen - We give it much approbation, but it's not about Jane. At the time, along with a high level summary of the Miss Austen story, we added some personal notes on the Jane Austen home sites we'd visited and concluded with a reference to an IMDB note that a movie based on the book was in development.  In those three years, a lot has happened and we have updates. Let's start with that blog's conclusion first. . . 

BTS reviewed Miss Austen in August, 2021. We noted then, the Miss Austen film was in development!

Miss Austen Updates:

The film:  Late last week, PBS' Masterpiece announced that Miss Austen, a period drama based on Gil Hornsby's book, will air May 4, 2025. Produced by Bonnie Productions for Masterpiece, in association with the BBC, filming was completed earlier this year. Selecting 2025 for the four-part series debut is especially fitting at marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.

BTS Jane Austen site visits continue: Since 2021, we've added another Austen family home visit to our Jane-Austen-focus trips to England. Last year, we not only returned to Bath, but stayed three days in the home once lived in by Jane, Cassandra and their parents (Becoming Jane, Part I:  Taking tea, living in the Austen home).

Since our Miss Austen review, we returned to Bath

. . . and stayed at an Austen home in town!

For those new to the Miss Austen historical fiction tale, the focus is on the "other" Austen daughter who, after Jane's death, is on mission to preserve his sister's legacy. In an effort to scrub some of the more caustic and less wholesome communications penned by Jane, it's known that close relatives, including her sister Cassandra, burned many of the author's letters. Author Gil Hornsby, aided by research and her accommodating accommodations in the hometown of Cassandra's fiancé, Thomas Fowle, she cleverly weaves a story of the Austen's tight bond against the fractured relationship of the Fowle sisters. Add in the author's empathy to Cassandra's plight of being overshadowed by a famous sibling (Gil Hornsby is the sister of author, Nick Hornsby). 

We've waited a long time for the movie adaption and we're excited not only about it's upcoming debut, but also all the Jane Austen special events we're hosting or attending next year. It's going to be a great 250th birthday celebration. BTS will keep more updates coming, but one thing is for sure - you'll know where to find us, cup of Earl Grey in hand, on May 4th, 2025.  😉