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Jane Austen and the ‘father of the novel’ – Samuel Richardson

Posted in Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2010 | 16 Comments »

Gentle readers: Last week I reviewed Lynn Shepherd’s new Austen inspired mystery Murder at Mansfield Park. Not only is she an accomplished novelist, she is a distinguished Samuel Richardson scholar with a new book Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, published by the venerable Oxford University Press. Richardson was [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for May 2010

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2 May 2010 | 19 Comments »

The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Jane Austen inspired books are heading our way in May, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.   Editor’s note: This month’s selections are comprised of re-issued, re-titled and re-written selections. Shocking! Has the economic recession finally hit Austen bookland?   Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, [...]

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In Which We Rant and Rave in Favor of Mansfield Park

Posted in Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 28 July 2009 | 31 Comments »

Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park really gets a bum rap from critics and readers. Sometimes I think that I am its only advocate, campaigning to an empty room. Granted, it is not as emotionally charged as Sense and Sensibility or as light, bright and sparkly as Pride and Prejudice, but it does have an admirable [...]

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Murder at Mansfield Park: Fanny Price Now an Outrageous Gold-digger in a new Austen Re-imaging

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , on 20 July 2009 | 14 Comments »

Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park will be next up for a literary mash-up.  Bookseller.com reports that Beautiful Books, a London based publisher announced today that they have purchased Murder at Mansfield Park, a whodunit by Lynn Shepherd.  Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel Mansfield Park, the murder mystery re-imagines Austen’s classic story re-casting gentle and [...]

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Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford – that peculiarly becoming temptress with a harp

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , on 26 March 2009 | 7 Comments »

The harp arrived, and rather added to her beauty, wit, and good-humour; for she played with the greatest obligingness, with an expression and taste which were peculiarly becoming, and there was something clever to be said at the close of every air. Edmund was at the Parsonage every day, to be indulged with his favourite [...]

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Mansfield Park: Why does Fanny Price Rankle Our Ire?

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 25 February 2009 | 25 Comments »

When her two dances with him were over, her inclination and strength for more were pretty well at an end; and Sir Thomas, having seen her walk rather than dance down the shortening set, breathless, and with her hand at her side, gave his orders for her sitting down entirely. From that time Mr. Crawford [...]

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Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment, by Joan Aiken – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 25 January 2009 | 2 Comments »

When a book written twenty five years ago is reissued as confidently as Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment by a publisher who specializes in Jane Austen sequels, you hope that it is laudable. Of all of the past sequels to select, (and there are more than a few), why choose one based on Jane [...]

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Two Guys Read Jane Austen, by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Critiques & Analysis Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 11 January 2009 | 2 Comments »

“Jane’s got more adoring female fans than Brad Pitt, and my guess is they’re more intelligent too!” Terrence Hill  Given the choice of reading Pride and Prejudice or watching a football game, which do you think the average all American male would choose?  If this is a no brainer, you have recognized the male/female divide [...]

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