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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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Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 31 July 2010 | 13 Comments »

Mansfield Park is considered (by some) to be the dark horse of Jane Austen’s oeuvre and her heroine Fanny Price intolerable. Poor Fanny. She really gets the bum’s rush in Austenland. The patron saint of the weak, insipid and downtrodden, she is Jane Austen’s most misunderstood heroine. In fact, many dispute if she is the [...]

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

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 6 July 2010 | 3 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in July, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd Mansfield Park is considered (by some) to be the dark [...]

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Austen Tattler: News and Gossip on the Net: Issue No 9

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 18 April 2010 | 4 Comments »

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 April 12th – 18th, 2010 Hot News of the Week: New author Jenni James of Northanger Alibi, a modern retelling of Northanger Abbey influenced by Twilight, lands the Austenesque book publicity coup [...]

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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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