PBS and ITV to Adapt Unfinished Jane Austen Novel 'Sanditon'
Sanditon, the unfinished Jane Austen novel that the author was working on just before her death, will be adapted for television next year.
The original 11 chapter fragment was called “The Brothers”. Austen began work on the new effort just a few months before her death in 1817. The chapters were renamed “Sanditon” when they were published in 1925.
It will be adapted as an eight-part series, though there’s no official word about whether events, stories or characters will be invented beyond Austen’s original manuscript. (One would kind of have to assume so, as eleven chapters isn’t a ton to go on.)
