Winners announced in The Other Mr. Darcy giveaway

Your questions to author Monica Fairview were fun and creative and your quotes of Caroline Bingley were oh so memorable – but the time has come to announce the two winners of one copy each of The Other Mr. Darcy. And the winners are…
Sarah-Wynne
Kristen
A big thank you to all who participated and especially to author [...]

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Interview with Monica Fairview: Author of The Other Mr. Darcy

A new Pride and Prejudice spinoff, The Other Mr. Darcy was released this month to positive fanfare. Focusing on Caroline Bingley, a secondary character in Jane Austen’s origial novel, I truly enjoyed her transformation and romance. You can read my review to get all the details of the plot and my impressions. 
Please welcome author Monica Fairview who stops by on [...]

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‘A Soirée with Lady Susan’ Wrap Up: Giveaway Winners Announced!

“Whether Lady Susan was or was not happy in her second choice, I do not see how it can ever be ascertained; for who would take her assurance of it on either side of the question?”  
Ah – how true! The “Mistress of deceit” would never allude to any misgivings on her part, (well maybe to [...]

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Lady Susan, by Jane Austen – A Review

Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young [...]

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Lady Susan: Group Read Letters 34-41: Summary, Musings & Discussion: Day Twelve Giveaway

I write only to bid you farewell, the spell is removed; I see you as you are…You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish, [...]

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Lady Susan: Group Read Letters 23-33: Summary, Musings & Discussion: Day Nine Giveaway

I must warn you of one thing – – do not let Frederica Vernon be made unhappy by that Martin. He wants to marry her; her mother promotes the match, but she cannot endure the idea of it. Reginald De Courcy Letter 23
Quick Synopsis 
Catherine Vernon writes to her mother delighted that Lady Susan and Reginald’s [...]

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A Soirée with Lady Susan: Guest Blog with Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway authors of Lady Vernon and her Daughter

There are some great writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these. Margaret Drabble 
I love this quote by Austen scholar Margaret Drabble. It is the opening line of her introduction to [...]

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Naxos AudioBooks Recording of Lady Susan – A Review

Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young [...]

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Lady Susan: Group Read Letters 11-22: Summary, Musings & Discussion: Day Five Giveaway

Her neglect of her husband, her encouragement of other men, her extravagance and dissipation, were so gross and notorious that no one could be ignorant of them at the time, nor can now have forgotten them. Sir Reginald De Courcy Letter 11
Quick Synopsis 
Sir Reginald De Courcy writes to his son alarmed by his serious attachment [...]

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Lady Susan: Group Read Letters 1-11: Summary, Musings & Discussion: Day Two Giveaway

We are now in a sad state; no house was ever more altered; the whole party are at war, and Manwaring scarcely dares speak to me. It is time for me to be gone. Lady Susan, Letter 2 
Quick Synopsis 
Lady Susan accepts her brother-in-law Charles Vernon’s invitation to Churchill. She will deposit her daughter Frederica at [...]

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Everything Austen Challenge X Two

We are so happy to see that the Everything Austen Challenge at Stephanie’s Written Word blog has had such an outstanding response. As of today, there are over 115 participants ready and willing to read and or watch six Austen or Austen inspired books, or view movie adaptations and spinoffs over the next six months. Sign-ups [...]

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An Interview with Maya Slater, Author of The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

Author Maya Slater has joined us today to chat about her book The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy which has just been released in the US. First published in the UK as Mr. Darcy’s Diary, the novel is a mirror to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and told from Mr. Darcy’s perspective. This slant is [...]

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