Dressing Literary History

By AMY LEAL

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...