Colonel Brandon's Diary

by Amanda Grange
Colonel Brandon's Diary
Author: Amanda Grange
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101060301
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A vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange's sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen's best-loved novels. At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's world is shattered when the girl he loves, Eliza, is forced to marry his brother. In despair, he joins the army and leaves England for the East Indies for the next several years. Upon his return, he finds Eliza in a debtor's prison. He rescues her from her terrible situation, but she is dying of consumption and he can do nothing but watch and wait. Heartbroken at her death, he takes some consolation in her illegitimate daughter, who he raises as his ward. But at the age of fifteen, his ward goes missing. Devastated by the thought of what could have happened to her, he is surprised to find himself falling in love with Marianne Dashwood. But Marianne is falling in love with the charismatic Willoughby...

Colonel Brandon's Diary

by Amanda Grange
Colonel Brandon's Diary
Author: Amanda Grange
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425227794
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Returning to England from the army, Colonel James Brandon learns that the woman he once loved is dying and raises her illegitimate child as his own, a situation that is complicated years later by the child's disappearance and his growing feelings for a Willoughby-smitten Marianne Dashwood. Original.

Dear Mr. Darcy

by Amanda Grange
Dear Mr. Darcy
Author: Amanda Grange
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101581247
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In this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Amanda Grange now tells the classic story through the eyes of its compelling romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy—in a series of revealing letters that casts a sparkling new reflection on the manners and morals of the landed gentry in 19th-century England… Here, for the first time, are the letters written by the exceedingly proud and stubborn Mr. Darcy, covering the life-changing events that defined him—from the death of his father, to his control of his Derbyshire estate of Pemberley to his conflicted courtship with the lively, intelligent, and delightfully willful Elizabeth Bennet. Try as he may, he cannot deny his attraction to this woman with fine eyes, a playful spirit, a mind of her own… and an embarrassing family that is frankly, and utterly, beneath him. But it is Elizabeth who controls both their destinies, and whose surprises will change Darcy’s life yet again.

Henry Tilney's Diary

by Amanda Grange
Henry Tilney's Diary
Author: Amanda Grange
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101559020
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A charming retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--a tale of gothic misunderstandings through Henry Tilney's eyes... At the age of four and twenty, Henry is content with his life as a clergyman, leaving his older brother Frederick to inherit Northanger Abbey. But General Tilney is determined to increase the family's means by having all three of his children marry wealthy partners. During a trip to Bath, Henry meets the delightful Miss Catherine Morland and believes he may have found the woman he's been looking for, although she has no great fortune. When the General takes an unusual liking to Catherine and invites her to visit the Abbey, Henry is thrilled. But just as in the Gothic novels Henry loves, not everything is as it seems...

Wickham's Diary

by Amanda Grange
Wickham's Diary
Author: Amanda Grange
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402251874
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11 July 1784 Why should I be beneath Fitzwilliam? I am just as handsome as he is; I am just as intelligent, even though he works harder at his books; and I am just as amusing; in fact I dare say I am a great deal more amusing, for Fitzwilliam is so proud he will not take the trouble to entertain other people. Yet although he is no better than me, when he grows up he will inherit Pemberley, and I will inherit nothing... Jane Austen's ultimate bad boy finally gets his say. Face with an uncertain future—while his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy is set for life—dastardly George Wickham plots and cavorts in this rollicking prequel to Pride and Prejudice. Bestselling author Amanda Grange daringly explores the inner turmoil and secret motivations of the character every Austen fan loves to hate... Praise for Mr. Darcy's Diary: "Grange tells Darcy's story in her own style, with charm and a gentle wit. While her characters are true to Austen's creations, a couple of surprises lurk, only adding to the reader's pleasure."—Susan Higginbotham, author of The Traitor's Wife

Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting

by L. Plate
Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting
Author: L. Plate
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230294634
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Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.

Romantic Capabilities

by Mike Goode
Romantic Capabilities
Author: Mike Goode
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198862369
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Studying works by William Blake, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, this volume examines the extent to which Romantic literary works can be said to prefigure the ways in which readers will engage with them after the time of their creation.

Margaret Dashwood's Diary

by Anna Elliott
Margaret Dashwood's Diary
Author: Anna Elliott
Publisher: Wilton Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Margaret Dashwood learned from her older sisters—sensible Elinor and romantic Marianne—that the path of true love is rarely easy or smooth. And yet Margaret grew up dreaming of one day finding love and romance of her own. Now, smarting from the pain of a broken engagement, Margaret has traveled to stay with her now-married sisters in order to heal. But life is still far from smooth: John Willoughby, Marianne’s first love, has unexpectedly returned to once again complicate the Dashwood sisters’ lives. Colonel Brandon, Marianne’s husband, has been commissioned to apprehend a ruthless ring of smugglers operating in the neighborhood. And when a mysterious figure from Margaret’s past returns, Margaret realizes that she herself may hold the key to uncovering the smuggling gang. Worse, she comes to suspect that she faces an impossible choice of her own: not between sense and sensibility, but between duty and her own heart. Margaret Dashwood’s Diary is Book 1 of the Sense and Sensibility Mysteries and is appropriate for all ages. It is approximately 85,000 words long. keywords: Jane Austen sequel, Sense and Sensibility sequel, continuation, variation, clean Regency romance, cozy historical mystery, British mystery, Jane Austen fan fiction, fanfiction, jaff, Colonel Brandon, Col. Brandon, Marrianne Dashwod, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby, amateur sleuth, women sleuths

A Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel

by M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
A Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel
Author: M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476633274
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What happened after Mr. Darcy married Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice? Where did Heathcliff go when he disappeared in Wuthering Heights? What social ostracism would Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter have faced in 20th century America? Great novels often leave behind great questions, and sequels seek to answer them. This critical analysis offers fresh insights into the sequels to seven literary classics, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the Bronte sisters' Jane Eyre, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.