Executive Producer: David Thompson

Producer: Anne Pivcevic

Co-Producer : Jamie Laurenson

Release Date: USA on PBS - February 3, 2008

Runtime: 90 min

As she approaches her 40th birthday Jane appears happily unmarried, displaying all the assured wit and charm of her novels' young heroines. Yet, when asked by her young niece, Fanny, to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's confident composure is threatened as she finds herself looking back on her own potential suitors and the choices she has made.
A chance meeting with a former acquaintance, Rev Brook Bridges, sees her reflect on a marriage that never was, while, when her family faces financial ruin, it is revealed that it all could have been very different had she only accepted a marriage proposal from a wealthy landowner. And when her brother, Henry, is taken ill Jane's passions are ignited by his handsome young physician.

Miss Austen Regrets

A BBC production retelling a portion of Jane Austen's own life story.


Olivia Williams as Jane Austen


Phyllida Law as Mrs. Austen


Adrian Edmondson as Henry Austen



Hugh Bonneville as

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Greta Scacchi as Cassandra Austen


Jack Huston as

Jason Watkins as Rev. James Stanier Clarke



Imogen Poots as Fanny Austen


Sally Tatum as Anna Lefroy


Pip Torrens as Edward Austen-Knight

Sylvie Herbert as

Madame Bigeon


Samuel Roukin as Harris Bigg

Tom Goodman-Hill as Mr. Lushington MP

Harry Gostelow as Rev. Charles Papillon