"My Irish Friend": The True Story Behind Becoming Jane (2007)

I discuss the true story behind Miramax's 2007 biopic "Becoming Jane". The film revolves around English novelist Jane Austen and Irish judge Thomas Lefroy, who first met in the winter of 1795/6. Was it just a flirtation, or something more? Watch and find out!

SOURCES: Austen, Jane, Jane Austen’s Letters, Ed. Deirdre Le Faye, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Austen-Leigh, James Edward, A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections (2002 Oxford Edition).
Chapman, R.W., Jane Austen: Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948).
Klingel Ray, Joan, ‘The One-Sided Romance of Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy’, Jane Austen Society of North America Vol. 28 No. 1 (2007).
Lefroy, Patrick, ‘Who Was the Real Tom Lefroy?’, Longford Historical Society Journal (1983).
Lefroy, Thomas, Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy (Dublin: Hodges, Foster & Co., 1871).
Robinson Walker, Linda, ‘Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy: Stories’, Jane Austen Society of North America Vol. 27 No. 1 (2006).
On intertextuality: McFarlane, Brian, ‘Reading Film and Literature’, The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen, Ed. Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
See also: ‘The Death of a Fiancée in Persuasion and the Constant Heart’, by Vic at janeaustensworld.com

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TIMESTAMPS:

Introduction... 0:00 - 8:13

Part 1: The Real "Pride and Prejudice"? ... 8:13 - 22:45

Part 2: Marrying for Money ... 22:45 - 42:26

Part 3: Writing What You Know ... 42:26 - 57:57

MUSIC:
"A Last Reading" - Adrian Johnston, Becoming Jane soundtrack,    • A Last Reading  

""My Father's Favourite" - Patrick Doyle, Sense and Sensibility soundtrack, my piano cover

Sonata in F, KV 280, 3rd Movement - Mozart, my piano cover

Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz

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