Billie Piper as Fanny Price??

Billie as Belle in Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Piper as Fanny Price

The sensitive, frail, and very unusual Austen heroine, Fanny Price.

Something about men in these old jackets that just strikes my fancy! These are dashing fellows!!

I was rather amused to find out that Billie Piper played the role of Fanny Price in a film portrayal of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. Reason being that I know Piper best in her role as Belle in Secret Diary of a Call girl. I think she's beautiful, but I've seen her as a seductive, confident, beautifully dressed call girl and had some trouble picturing her as the reserved, overemotional Fanny of Mansfield.

I haven't actually seen this film, but chances are I'm going to go on a search soon to find it. I'm curious to see what type of portrayal Piper will give of Fanny.
There's something about Austen heroines that has never ceased to captivate me. Each one is so different, so proper, so utterly non-feminist in many ways, and at the same time they're all so confident, romantic, and the epitome of female romantics. Not to mention they have some killer gowns to wear!

-Laura