Jane Austen Media Reviews

The Jane Austen Book Club By Karen Joy Fowler

The Jane Austen Book Club By Karen Joy Fowler "We have tried to get "Self-control," but in vain. I should like to know what her estimate is, but am always half afraid of finding a clever novel to...

Jane Austen's Guide to Dating by Lauren Henderson

  One might think, from the title of this book as well as the cartoony-cute cover design, that Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating is the latest chick-lit novel on the order of The Girls’ Guide to Hun...

The Watsons/ Emma Watson by Joan Aiken

The Watsons/ Emma Watson by Joan Aiken I confess: I had not read The Watsons before reading this edition and Aiken's take on it. It felt very odd to be reading something of Jane Austen's that was ...

Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan

In the second volume of her “Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman” trilogy, Pamela Aidan expands the world of Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen’s preferred “3 or 4 families in a country village,” sendi...

Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

When Lady Catherine de Bourgh tells Elizabeth Bennet that Mr. Darcy comes from an ancient family…well, she isn’t just being a snob. The beginning of the newlywed Darcys’ life together, in which...

Mr. Darcy’s Secret by Jane Odiwe

  “With little exception, the anticipation of a long awaited and desirous event will always give as much, if not more pleasure, than the diversion itself. Morever, it is a certain truth that no m...

The Way of the World/Mr. Darcy’s Daughters by Elizabeth Aston

Just imagine Fitzwilliam Darcy, who had been openly critical of Mr. Bennet’s parenting skills, saddled with five headstrong daughters of marriageable age, or close to it. Further imagine that Mr. a...

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Sourcebooks Landmark presents A Darcy Christmas, a collection of three Christmas-themed short stories set in the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The contributing authors are the talent...

Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange

Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange When one feels that one’s support of Jane Austen paraliterature is a hopeless business as the genre has become a quagmire of revolting twaddle written by...

Wickham’s Diary by Amanda Grange

George Wickham is a bad man. Let’s get that out of the way right up front. He is vain, self-centered, and doesn’t seem to care how many lives he destroys as he seeks personal gain. Why would we wa...

Jane Austen in Boca

By Paula Marantz Cohen Reviewed by Shannon Bloomstran Jane Austen's classic novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE begins with the oft-repeated line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single ...

An Assembly Such as This

Book One of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan This book is the first of a trilogy that promises to take the reader through the events of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's point o...