Welcome to Manydown!
A film about Jane Austen's brief engagement, and the night she decided to dedicate her life to writing
The night is December 2nd, 1802 and Jane is only two weeks away from her twenty-seventh birthday — the threshold of spinsterhood — facing down a lifetime of social invisibility and dependence on the charity of her brothers. Suddenly, she receives a windfall: a proposal of marriage from a rich family friend with a fabulous estate, Manydown. She accepts him, of course . . . but as soon as she's alone with her beloved sister Cassandra, Jane's certainty unravels. Can you be an authoress if you're the mistress of Manydown? What kind of love, and how much, is enough to sustain a marriage — or for that matter, a life?
Manydown is a poignant, funny and heartfelt exploration of the choices women and artists have had to make for centuries, through the journey of one of the greatest writers of all time. It’s a celebration of sisterhood - the support systems we have around us to help navigate such difficult choices, bringing to light the important role played by Jane’s family in giving us her beautiful stories.
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So excited about this!