Jane Christmas Lefroy part 3
I’m moving ‘Jane Christmas Lefroy’ to her own section because it’s getting too large to put under her father’s section (Tom Lefroy). Anyway, I hope you guys bear with me… for it’s seemingly gonna be a rather long ride.
I’m moving ‘Jane Christmas Lefroy’ to her own section because it’s getting too large to put under her father’s section (Tom Lefroy). Anyway, I hope you guys bear with me… for it’s seemingly gonna be a rather long ride.
Posted by Icha at 18:51
Labels: About Tom Lefroy, Jane Christmas Lefroy
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Jane Austen was born on
Cast:
Anne Hathaway - Jane Austen
James McAvoy - Tom Lefroy
Julie Walters - Mrs. Austen
James Cromwell - Revd. George Austen (Jane's father)
Maggie Smith - Lady Gresham
Anna Maxwell Martin - Cassandra Austen
Joe Anderson - Henry Austen
Lucy Cohu - Eliza de Feullide
Laurence Fox - Mr. Wisley
Philip Culhane - George Austen (Jane's brother)
Ian Richardson – Judge Langlois
Leo Bill – John Warren
Jessica Ashworth – Lucy Lefroy
Eleanor Methven – Mrs. Lefroy
Michael James Ford – Mr. Lefroy
Sophie Vavasseur – Jane Lefroy
Helen McCrory – Ann Radcliffe
Julian Jarrold - Director
Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, & Douglas Rae - Producer
Adrian Johnston - Soundtrack
Kevin Hood & Sarah Williams - Screenplay writers
Eigil Bryld - Cinematography
Jane Gibson - Choreography
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh - Costume
Gail Stevens & Gillian Reynolds - Casting
Jon Spence,
McAvoy knew his portrait of Tom could only come alive with the right Jane, and he found Anne Hathaway almost supernaturally suited for the part. “I don’t think we could have chosen anyone better to play Jane Austen," he says.
Jane Austen’s greatest love story was her own
‘I’m yours, Jane, heart and soul!’
~ Tom Lefroy to Jane Austen, ‘Becoming Jane’
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection – JA,
Nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another – JA,
To be so bent on marriage, to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me.
The film Becoming Jane has given us an image of Jane Austen that liberates our imagination. I envy readers of my book who come to it with Anne Hathaway’s image of Jane in their mind’s eye. You will not have to struggle against the image Cassandra created to see the Jane Austen who was young and pretty, lively and in love. Anne Hathaway’s skilful portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can.
Jon Spence,
4 comments:
As long as you always keep in mind that you are looking for a "forest" of pattern and meaning, you will never get lost wandering among those family trees. ;)
Haha, very well put Arnie!! What a picturesque forest this is turning out to be!
The key to finding one's way through it is to spot the "bread crumbs" that Jane Austen sprinkled behind her as she walked briskly through that forest of her own creation! If you find and follow them all, you will arrive in the end at the destination she created just for us. ;)
Patterns of trees...
I agree that JA left loads of breadcrumbs, Arnie... and you're very good at spotting them as well.
What I just realised last night was that I had started following TOM's breadcrumbs... and that starts with the Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy, and the lastest one, which is Jane Christmas Lefroy.
Linda suggested me to look for the son of Jeffry Paul and Elizabeth Christmas, who was also Jeffry (Jeffrey?) Paul. But this bloke married to Margaret Morris, and not Jane Paul.
There were some other Jeffry Pauls scattering around... but I think I'd rather go back to Mary's Jeffry Paul and trace back from there.
From Tom's part, I think his ancestors are not linked to any Christmases...
thanks for the comments, guys!
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