Chapman edited it for publication and gave it its title. Sanditon was read by very few people before 1925 when the great Jane Austen scholar R. Perhaps the team behind arguably the most well-loved adaptation of another Jane Austen book will fare better.1I will be talking to you today about Sanditon, the novel which Jane Austen started in the last year of her life but was unable to finish because she was too ill.
Austen may seem easy to emulate, but it’s almost impossible to capture her arch voice and her keen eye in print. Since then, Sanditon has been completed countless times. But once she began to continue the lives of the people of Sanditon, she found herself stumped. Nonetheless, Lefroy tried her hand at completing her aunt’s final book. Le Faye argues against that, noting though Austen may have talked about the book, she likely didn’t know how the plot would play out. Literary critic and Austen expert Deirdre Le Faye tracks the attempts of Austen’s niece, Anna Lefroy, to complete the story of Sanditon. Scholars have suggested that Lefroy had some idea of the book’s plot before Austen’s death, or that Austen discussed the book with her niece. It also didn’t stop multiple people from trying to finish it, including Austen’s own niece. That won’t stop the adaptors, who must fill in the blanks and finish the story themselves. The only problem? Austen didn’t live long enough to do it. For Lauber, Sanditon is a book that shows a group of fools living in a geographic and social bubble that’s just waiting to be pricked. He sees it as more complete than Halperin does, describing it as containing an engaging, well-realized setting and a cast of compelling characters. Halperin has high praise for the novel, especially its shrewd character sketches, which he wishes Austen had had the chance to flesh out further.Īusten Biographer John Lauber calls Sanditon “a kingdom of folly”- a book whose style, content, characters, setting and theme all promised to be much different than Austen’s well known drawing room comedies. The novel involves a small town on the verge of becoming a health resort, Sanditon, and the emotional journey of its heroine Charlotte, who visits Sanditon as a guest and becomes involved with the foibles of its inhabitants. He calls Sanditon, the name given to the fragmentary novel Jane Austen first called The Brothers, an “anti-romantic fragment.” Austen wrote it while dying, and the manuscript contains only about 25,000 words. Literature scholar John Halperin can tell you what it isn’t-romantic. Nothing gets Jane Austen fans in aflutter like a new adaptation, and the announcement that the screenwriter behind the 1994 Pride and Prejudice will adapt Sanditon for ITV and PBS has created as much excitement as the arrival of a regiment of handsome officers in Meryton.
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