Jane Austen Media Reviews

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...

Medically Speaking

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter I decided, given the variation in literature available, to read and review three books on medicine by Roy Porter at once. They are thi...

The Jane Austen Mysteries

The Jane Austen Mysteries series by Stephanie Barron feature Jane Austen as an amateur detective, presented as entries in journals recently "discovered" in the basement of an old house previously o...

A Jane Austen Education

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen

A review of Sarah Jane Downing's history of fashion by Vic Sanborn

Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love

Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love When we reviewed Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating a while back, we remarked that reading the advice contained therein was like receiving a lette...

Jane Austen’s Sewing Box

Jane Austen’s Sewing Box: Craft Projects & Stories from Jane Austen’s Novels by Jennifer Forest This is a lovely, sumptuous book. When it first arrived, I did a quick skim – it is filled wit...

Two Guys Read Jane Austen

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

Claire Tomalin and Carol Shields on Jane Austen's Life

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

The Girl From Botany Bay

The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson Mary Broad had a brief moment of celebrity, and this is probably one of the only reasons we know so much about the life and times of not just Bro...