"Jane Austen wrote about romance and courtship from personal experience, so it is hard to believe that she never married. Miss Austen Regrets dramatizes the lost loves of Austen's life, including Harris Bigg, whose proposal she accepted and then rejected; Edward Brydges, who she also refused; the tongue-tied vicar she teased mercilessly; and the young surgeon who arrived on the scene too late to steal her heart"--Container.