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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... 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 Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 21st 'Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey' begins on October 1st here at Austenprose, so start reading Northanger Abbey and gearing up for another... 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 →
Mansfield Park Madness at Austenprose August 15-31 Seventeen days of seventeen great give-aways and Fanny too!  Welcome Janeites and classic literature fans. I am pleased to announce that Austenprose will be hosting a seventeen day event in celebration and re-discovery of Jane Austen's most complex and often misunderstood novel Mansfield Park. Please join us on... Continue Reading →
