What Would Jane Austen Want?

Last week I saw an article about a new television adaptation of a Jane Austen work I’d never heard of, which made me sit up and take notice because I was pretty sure I’d read all of Ms. Austen’s work (at least twice) and had even made a pilgrimage to Bath to walk the paths taken in Persuasion.  So imagine my surprise to hear that a new television series was being made of a book called “Sandition.”  An unfinished, unreleased book.

Now, the Austen-phile reader in me was excited, but my writer h...