Jane Austen

I saw Becoming Jane last week and really enjoyed it. In a holiday weekend in which there are absolutely no movies to see, I wish I had waited until this weekend. While it may be considered by some to be a chick flick, it was a good historical look at the era in which Jane and other women fought to become published writers. Working women of any ilk were considered second-class--women who wrote, almost perverse. Of course, Austen went on to write some of the great books in English literature.

Thank goodness that landscape has changed.