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"I will keep my ill-humour to myself. I have a very sincere interest in Emma . . . There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma. I wonder what will become of her!" Mr. Knightley, Emma, Chapter 5 For me, reading Jane Austen's  Emma is a delight. However, not all readers have... Continue Reading →
Darcy tried to focus his attention on her kisses, tasting the passion that was clearly sweeping between them, but the rest of his body remained all too aware of how little stood between them, and as he finally pulled Elizabeth to him, the sensation of her softness molding itself to him stole away any remaining... Continue Reading →
More accurately, Lady Catherine conversed. Anne listened silently, her attention straying to other parts of the busy room as her mother soliloquied unchecked. Wandering concentration, however, was endemic to participants in Lady Catherine’s conversations. It was how one survived them. Chapter 2  Austenesque author Carrie Bebris ventures into her fourth excursion in the Mr. and... Continue Reading →
Go Gothic with Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey October 1st -31st @ Austenprose One month full of Gothic goodness, free giveaways and Henry Tilney too!  Welcome Janeites, classic and gothic literature fans. Austenprose is happy to announce its second Jane Austen novel event, Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, beginning on October 1st through October 31st, 2008. Please join... Continue Reading →
Sourcebooks, Inc has just re-issued the classic Pride and Prejudice sequel Pemberley Shades, by D. A. Bonavia-Hunt. Originally published in 1949, this valued and quite rare book is the first Pride and Prejudice sequel to continue the story after the marriage of our favorite couple, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy concluded in Jane Austen's famous... Continue Reading →
Now they had come to it, the moment he dreaded. "We are to marry in nearly two days -" "It has not escaped my notice, I assure you." "- and I find myself in need of some . . . advice." Mr. Bingley & Mr. Darcy, The Darcys & the Bingleys And so gentle readers,... Continue Reading →
I have been reading Jane Austen's Juvenilia and find it delightful. Love and Freindship, (note the original misspelling on friendship) a novella written as an epistolary inscribed "Deceived in Friendship & Betrayed in Love" was dedicated to Madame la Comtesse de Feuillide (Jane Austen's cousin Eliza Hancock who married a French Count, Jean-Francois Capot de... Continue Reading →
It is with great pleasure that I learned that the classic Pride and Prejudice sequel, Pemberley Shades by Dorothy Alice Bonavia-Hunt, would be re-issued in September by Sourcebooks. Originally published in 1949, it was the second Jane Austen sequel ever to be written and not easily available for purchase unless you were lucky enough to... Continue Reading →
"All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it." Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Around the blogosphere for the week of September 1st The first reviews for Jane Odiwe's Lydia Bennet's Story are in, and honestly not a suprise! Austen-esque author Marsha Altman is featured at... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. First up is the third book in the Pemberley Chronicles series by Rebecca Ann Collins, entitled Netherfield Park Revisited. In this continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and... Continue Reading →
 THE SEQUELS  Since Austen-esque author Amanda Grange first gave us Darcy's Diary, the retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's perspective in 2005, she has been dutifully working her way through all six of Jane Austen's heroes with her books; Mr. Knightley's Diary, Captain Wentworth's Diary, Edmund Bertram's Diary and the latest hardcover... Continue Reading →
THE SEQUELS A recent review at the venerable on-line periodical Publisher's Weekly of the re-issue of Mansfield Park Revisited by Joan Aiken gave me quite a good chuckle. It's amazing how a small typo can change the whole direction of a book! It appears on first glance that this reviewer thinks that Jane Austen's heroine from... Continue Reading →
