Jane Austen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Joan Aiken, one of Jane Austen's most sparkling successors, takes up Austen's pen yet again, this time continuing where Pride and Prejudice left off in Lady Catherine's Necklace. In Austen's classic novel, the arrogant Lady Catherine de Bourgh tried vehemently to prevent the betrothal of her nephew Mr. Darcy, whom she had intended for her daughter Anne, to the less socially connected Elizabeth Bennet. Defeated, she retreats to her grand estate--Rosings...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The adventures in love of Emma and Elizabeth Watson, two characters in Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons, which this writer set out to complete. The novel follows them as they seek husbands, in the process participating in various social intrigues.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
A sequel to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, featuring Hatty, one of the Ward sisters whose plain looks make her undesirable as a wife. Put to work as a governess, she consoles herself with writing poetry until love enters her life.
Harriet Ward, known as Hatty by her sisters Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris, does not at the age of twelve seem destined for a career of infamy. However, treated with utter contempt by her elder sisters, she is banished by...