Sanditon: #OGiana The Water Is Wide (There is a Ship)

Sign the petition for Season 2 here: Watch Sanditon on PBS Masterpiece Passport & Amazon Prime Jane Austen passed away in 1817 having only written 11.5 chapters of a novel called Sanditon. In it, she bravely introduced a black heiress from Antigua who came to a small seaside resort town that was being actively developed by three brothers - The Parkers. We can only imagine that before her death, Jane Austen was willing to take on the complexities of racism and a changing world that was less about the wealthy and more about the self-made man in the way she alone could with her insight, cleverness, and humor. Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies, with a team of others like Justin Young and Andrea Gibb, continued the storyline and has brought us face to face with the complexities of entrepreneurship, society, and tradition, as well as racism, specifically in the early 1800s. Georgiana might be an extremely wealthy heiress, but she is still judged for the color o