August 3, 2007
Dressing Literary History
I don't want to see it, but I have to. On August 10, I will sheepishly pile into an overcrowded theater to see Becoming Jane, loosely adapted from Jon Spence's biographical study Becoming Jane Austen, even though I know Anne Hathaway isn't British and Tom Lefroy did not tussle with Austen in haystacks. That isn't what will pain me, though; it will most likely be the costumes.
It is time for me to take my closet out of the closet: I am one of those Janeites you hear about who likes to
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