"We don’t want just diversity we want representation. She also emphasizes that it's important how characters of color are portrayed, not just that they're included as tokens. "It’s really important for us to have the knowledge of that history of black people, people of color," she says. "That history goes much farther back than (you think) . (black people) were actually a thing back then."Ĭlarke hopes the recent trend of including more and more diverse black characters in historical dramas is promising. I do hope to see more (people of color) but it’s also just really nice that it’s something that comes organically. Usage Public Domain Topics Austen, Sanditon, English Literature, 19th Century Writers Collection opensource. "What's great is Georgiana hasn’t just been slotted in there just for the sake of diversity," Clarke says. In the series, Georgiana is far wealthier than many of the white English people she interacts with, and her relationship to polite society is a big part of the plot. "The 'mulatto Miss Lamb,' that’s Jane Austen’s description," Davies says. The biggest departure for Austen was her inclusion of Georgiana Lambe, a black West Indian heiress played by Crystal Clarke ("Black Mirror") in the series.
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