Regrets - did she? I thought perhaps she did regret her decisions and spinsterhood (what a loaded word!). Perhaps she regretted her influence on young Fanny (the deliciously elfin Imogen Poots). But at the very end was the claim to have made the right choices that gave her the freedom to write - which again may merley have been words of kindness for her sister?
Very nice film but to my blunt male mind a little ambiguous at the end.
The question with Jane Austen is why didn't she have some good proposals. It's hard to have regrets when you there wasn't any really regrettable in first place.
Austen was smart, kind and she wasn't ugly. She should have had quite a few good ones. Perhaps she closed herself in a self-destructive way.
The film opened with her first accepting a proposal then withdrawing from it. I have no idea if it happened or not but it was a decision she may, or may not, have regretted later.
The film closed with her sister burning her letters - which may explain why we don't know about any proposals?
Of course it's only a film and I don't know how scholarly it is.