MASTERPIECE on PBS has optioned Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things. Penguin Random House published this novel back in 2013.
Rebecca Eaton will serve as an executive producer for this project. Emily Ballou has been brought on as the screenwriter; she will adapt the book.
Here’s more from the press release: “Inspired by the true-life adventures of real 19th century female botanical explorers, Gilbert created an unforgettable character in Alma Whittaker — a brilliant, determined, and thoroughly scientific woman, struggling to express her intellectual curiosity in a society where women’s lives are confined to the domestic sphere. Equal parts Elizabeth Bennet and Charles Darwin, Alma spends her days seeking nothing less than the answers to the origins of life itself.” (via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Page)