![]() ![]() Another major difference is the inclusion of James Stringer, who is an invention of Davies in order to give Charlotte another potential love interest (Austen did always love to give her heroines multiple potential suitors that represented different sorts of men of the time). This storyline may have worked well enough in Austen’s writing, but the series doesn’t attempt to bring it to the screen, as it ultimately wouldn’t have done much in the way of making for something entertaining or thematically interesting to watch. ![]() Parker hopes to secure an advantageous relationship. There’s also much talk of a family arriving from the West Indies, with whom Mrs. Early on in the unfinished novel, there’s a great deal of intrigue over the Parkers and their connection with a girls’ school that is rumored to come to Sanditon during their holiday. The television series also leaves out one minor plot that occurs in what Austen already wrote. The only character who doesn’t show up is Susan Parker, a member of a rather eccentric family Charlotte meets in Sanditon. The characters in the show are lifted right off of Austen’s pages, as much of what she had already written was to establish the key players in the story before the plot really got going. After all, it isn’t as though writer Davies could just adapt the series from a completed novel, as he did with previous television adaptations he wrote for Pride & Prejudice and Emma. ![]() ![]() Comparing the Sanditon book and series is somewhat difficult to do. ![]()
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