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Anne Hathaway Will Play a Conservative Influencer Who Preaches That Women Should Submit to Their Husbands, Then Wakes Up in 1855 and Has to Live It

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“Yesteryear” is Caro Claire Burke’s satirical thriller, a bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club pick after Knopf published it in April 2026. The character is Natalie Mills, a 32-year-old tradwife influencer with 8 million followers, selling a from-scratch pioneer fantasy: sourdough, raw milk, submission, a handsome cowboy husband. Then she wakes up in 1855 and the aesthetic is just the life, with no nannies, no appliances, and no way out.

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Hathaway is starring and producing through her banner Somewhere Pictures. Amazon MGM won the film rights in a competitive July 2024 auction, before the book was even out, in a deal reported around $450,000 against $2 million.

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Emmy-winning screenwriter Hannah Friedman (“Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “Willow”) is adapting.

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An AI-generated illustration imagining Anne Hathaway as a conservative influencer transported back to 1855.

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