Elinor and Marianne
I loved finding Jane Austen’s Elinor Dashwood in Emma Straub’s novel Modern Lovers, just as I loved finding Marianne Dashwood …
Category Archives: Fiction Inspired by Jane Austen
Why Did Jane Austen Abandon The Watsons?
It’s a pleasure to introduce this guest post by Kathleen A. Flynn on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons. Kathleen’s …
The Scene-Painter, Part Two
As I promised in yesterday’s blog post, “Mansfield Park in Montreal,” I’m posting the second part of Diana Birchall’s “The Scene-Painter,” in …
The Trouble with Flirting – a review
In her YA novel The Trouble with Flirting, Claire LaZebnik draws on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for inspiration for both characters …
“The Watsons in Winter”: An Interview with Deborah Yaffe
Deborah Yaffe, author of Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom, is writing about “The …
Longbourn – a review
“The very shoe-roses were got by proxy.” This line from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sparked Jo Baker’s fascinating exploration …
Among the Janeites – a review
What are Janeites, and who wants to be one of them, or spend time among them? George Saintsbury invented the …
A Passion for Dead Leaves: Jane Austen and The Penderwicks
Sense and Sensibility was published two hundred and one years ago today, and I thought of Jane Austen’s heroine Marianne …
“Austen herself at the keyboard”?
“My suspicion is that had P.D. James been an unknown author peddling her manuscript for the first time to publishers …
Sarah Emsley 