Becoming Jane

I just went to see Becoming Jane, I am a huge closet Jane Austin fan....never read the books but I have seen all the movies, that's just how I roll. I love the romance of the era, but hate the rules and games that had to be played due to status and rank. This movie was on her real life romance, and it was incredible, right up to the point when as they were running away together to marry she found a letter to her fiance from his mother thanking him for the money he always sent to them to support the family, who depended on him alone. Since he was running away to be married he would lose his inheritance and the family would be in poverty. Jane, not wanting to starve her fiance's family to fulfill her love, leaves him and lives a life alone, until she dies. If I had known that I was signing up for the all depressing hour, I might have thought twice about going. But it is better to have loved and lost than not loved at all, I do agree. All her books end with the heroine getting everything her heart desired, the opposite of her real life. So much pain and long suffering for events entirely out of her control. I admire her for what she did, but somehow think that she gave up too quickly and did not wait for other events to unfold that might have made it all happen. Such a loss. I often think that to live in that time would be so much simpler, something that I am always longing for, but after this movie, I think I'll stay in my century just yet, they had complications too.