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I think you should finish it. It is quite a lovely book, with quiet happenings. It's not extremely animated, but it's very entertaining in its way. I would give it another shot. Maybe try to get a copy in your mother language. Or, you can download a free audio version at Librivox. There's also a Librivox app, as well, and they have readings in other languages.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
https://www.amazon.ca/Austen-Charles-Dickens-Whist-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0671882368
Also this article: https://randombitsoffascination.com/portfolio/gentlemen-in-the-regency-era/
You're very welcome! I linked you to the version I have on my phone, and there are a few more and one in Spanish as well. I can't find any other languages besides Spanish and English for Persuasion, but they have her other works in Dutch and French.
I lovelovelove the Lynn Redgrave narration of Northanger Abbey (<em>https://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Northanger-Abbey-Audiobook/B0182KX8XK?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_5&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=90AV5P3XRYV63TC3FX0Z&</em>).
I'm assuming you've probably seen this:
https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Illustrated-Jane-Austen-Six/dp/0192547070?
Unfortunately even with the "look inside" option, it doesn't seem to show the inside cover but it does have the table of contents and index and first few pages.
This whole series is wonderful: https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Annotated-Jane-Austen/dp/0674048849/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=Annotated+Jane+Austen&qid=1619711677&s=books&sr=1-7
The annotations provide so much extra context and the illustrations are gorgeous.
Thanks! I don’t know where she got it but the title is “Color Me Jane” and under that it says “A Jane Austen Coloring Book by Jacqui Oakley” I was able to find it on Amazon
I have only read one P & P variation focused on Lydia that I liked. She's one of my least favorite characters to read about but Love's Fool by Elaine Owen is so good! Written in diary format and doesn't really feature Wickham. Duty Demands by the same author is one of my frequent rereads.
Love's Fool: The Taming of Lydia Bennet: What Happened After Mr. Darcy's Persistent Pursuit (Longbourn Unexpected Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00POEHPP0/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_50V5AFDQ1ACV8EY5CD5K
Oh, also I like Fair Trade by Kate Bedlow, Lydia is great in that one only because it changes her whole personality.
Came across these recently - trilogy of books centred around Elizabeth who has to choose between a rich man (who is familiar from another Austen novel) and a man she can love but who appears to be her social inferior. No dea what they are like but it appears to be an attempt to make Elizabeth more sympathetic. No character in Austen is so awful that they don't have an apologist out there somewhere https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07815SDQX?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref\_=dbs\_mng\_calw\_0&storeType=ebooks
Allie Cresswell, The Highbury Trilogy. I didn't want it to end. It's primarily the story of the Bates family and how they got where they were. Jane and Frank are explained, and there are some other cute side stories thrown in. It's extremely well written, and the language is very much as it would have been long ago. I enjoyed it and will likely reread it many times.
This book, which I got for my daughters at our school book fair:
Not sure if she'd like to try reading the actual stories, but I know they have versions of the stories written specifically for kids. Here's what I was thinking of: https://www.amazon.ca/Childrens-Collection-Prejudice-Persuasion-Sensibility/dp/1782266097/ref=asc\_df\_1782266097/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500814012938&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16175707725163762042&hvpone=&am...
The Heiress hypothesises that Anne had been dosed with laudanum since her infancy. I don't know if that could explain her stunted growth as well.
> her daughter is basically unmarriageable
With a good dowry everyone is marriageable.
I have only read Pride and Prejudice, and only recently, but I found it very engaging and fun to read. This was helped in using an annotated edition, which clarified a lot and helped with certain spots with language use. I would read the whole chapter, then go back and read the notes for the chapter, which felt much better than reading the notes at the same time as their page. Specifically, I used the edition annotated by David Shapard, found here: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Pride-Prejudice-Jane-Austen/dp/0307950905/
https://smile.amazon.com/Blinded-Prejudice-Pride-Variation-ebook/dp/B0982BX5XG/
I enjoyed this one enough to buy it after I read it with Kindle Unlimited. Caroline's plans don't exactly back fire, but her story is amusing, and the E&D romance is definitely a slow burn.
Was the OC definitely female? https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082F5MZ4Y/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p2_i1
Don't remember whether Darcy read Emma but basic premise of this seems pretty close?
Has anyone read the book, Jane Austen in the Context of the Abolition, by Gabrielle White?
Product Description This wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane Austen as a supporter of colonialism and slavery. White suggests that Austen is both concerned and engaged with the issue, and that novels such as Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion not only presuppose the British outlawing of the transatlantic slave trade but also undermine the status quo of chattel slavery, slavery's most extreme form.
My favourite is What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullen. It's really good.
The Jane Austen Secret Radical book I have not read, but the excepts I have seen are pretty ridiculous. For example, the author suggests that Fanny buys her sister a knife as self-defense from their abusive father in MP. Not only is there no evidence that Mr. Price is abusive (his kids don't fear him at all), a pen knife is not going to defend a 5 year old from a grown ex-military man. I don't usually down vote a book, but honestly I would avoid that one.
Jane Austen Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1647220874/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DB1C467PF2SH9Z3Z1WE2
Or
Pride and Prejudice Notebook - Ruled (Chiltern Notebook) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1912714116/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_30FR7PF3PVGHS7FFY9VJ
I have the David M. Shapard P&P and it is good, though I do occasionally disagree with him. I would really suggest What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullen. He really gets into some context for all the novels that has deepened my appreciation of them. https://www.amazon.ca/What-Matters-Jane-Austen-Crucial/dp/1620400413
You can get some decent and well priced regency dresses on Amazon but I don’t know if you can get it mailed to you on time.
This is the most beautiful edition I actually own https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Prejudice-Marjolein-Bastin-Classics/dp/1524861758/ref=sr_1_17?crid=39ZCQVQHL9HF2&keywords=pride+and+prejudice+book&qid=1648252603&s=books&sprefix=pride+%2Cstripbooks%2C241&sr=1-17
I also have the Penguin clothbound edition mentioned below
I'm going to be that annoying person who is going to self-promo, but my recently released book is a modern adaptation of Northanger Abbey combined with plot points of Emma (and all the characters from all the novels are mixed together in a university town.)
Check it out if you're interested! :)
https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Box-Hill-University-ebook/dp/B09KQZZPJF/
I think the Chiltern Classic versions are the most beautiful, but to read I love the annotated versions by David Shapard.
My favourite P&P edition (she has also done Emma) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Prejudice-Marjolein-Bastin-Classics/dp/1524861758/ref=asc\_df\_1524861758/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=435754871995&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1361772556048139833&hvpone=&hvptwo=&...
This is kind of what I do in my book.... sorry for the shameless self promo, but not sorry enough to not to do it...What Happened On Box Hill
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Book blurb:
What would happen if you combined all of Austen's characters into one modern-day novel?
Murder, of course.
When Caty Morland's roommate, Isabella, falls to her death on Initiation Night, Austen University is quick to cover up the scandal and call it a tragic accident. But avid true-crime lover Caty remains convinced that Isabella didn't fall; she was murdered. With the help of Pi Kappa Sigma President Emma Woodhouse, Caty organizes a dinner party with the most likely suspects, including familiar faces such as Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, Knightley, and Marianne Dashwood. The theme of the night is murder, and Caty has three courses to find out what happened to Isabella—and to try to keep the killer from striking again.
What Happened on Box Hill is Book 1 of the Austen University Mysteries series.
I just found this game on Amazon. The Parlor Game: Pride & Prejudice. It's set up like Cards Against Humanity.
Pride & Prejudice the Parlor Game: A Literature-Inspired Party in a Box https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1423656636/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_AZ8WQ06SJG8S56DV2AMP?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Sorry, I thought that was. I think Amazon got confused between the annotation and large text. Let’s try this;
https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Pride-Prejudice-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B007JC6L3C/ref=nodl_
People are saying watch the miniseries or listen to Audible. But there is a completely free (and best) option if you don’t have time to sit and read the book.
The book is in the public domain and Librivox has some great recordings. Including a dramatic reading: https://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-3/
The 1995 Sense & Sensibility. I know it deviates from the book a bit, but it is so well made and well acted. I truly love it.
Also, I recommend downloading the Librivox app or going to the website and downloading free audio versions to listen to. The ones narrated by Karen Savage are the best, IMO.
You could choose to listen to it, this reader is wonderful and I have found it more enjoyable this way. https://librivox.org/mansfield-park-by-jane-austen-version-2/
I think an algorithm must have generated this cover image for the Kindle version of Doctor Thorne.
Women Writing about Money provides an invaluable explanation of the financial aspects of Regency novels - what a given income could afford, how dowries worked. It gives a lot of historical context - rampant inflation in the wake of the Revolutionary War, realities of employment for single women, socioeconomic classes in Regency England, etc.
This really helped me understand why someone like Mr. Elton would have been so determined to make an advantageous match. Today, it would be like if your choice of spouse determined whether you could ever afford a car, or would have to walk everywhere for the rest of your life. Mrs. Elton had a dowry of 10,000 pounds - 500 pounds/year - which could easily have bumped Mr. Elton up into a higher income bracket. According to Women Writing about Money, it cost at least 800 pounds/year to keep a carriage - and sure enough, after Mr. Elton marries, he gets a carriage.
I've also seen Jane Austen in Context recommended before. I have it, but haven't actually read it yet, so can't comment further, though.
I watched Sense & Sensibility when I was around 11 or 12 and LOVED it. Then I watched Emma. LOVED it, too. Barnes & Noble sold this big Jane Austen book that had S&S and Emma, with P&P in the middle. I read S&S, and then Emma, ignoring P&P for a few years until just before Thanksgiving of my freshman year of college. I was on the bus, on my way home, and had the book with me for some reason (I think I loaned it to a friend who needed to read one of the books for an English class) and figured, "Might as well attempt P&P."
WELL, I don't think I ever read something so fast, and with such ease. I stayed up well into the night reading it, and when I got to the part where Darcy first proposes in Kent, I gasped and slammed the book shut. I couldn't believe it! Of course I opened it right away and started reading again. But I think that is my favorite moment. I didn't see it coming. I'm glad I read it before seeing the miniseries (which I promptly bought on Black Friday!) because it was so special to experience it in my own imagination. Librivox.org has free audio recordings of Jane Austen's books (and other books, of course) and I often listen to the P&P one in the car if I'm driving for longer than a half hour. I still feel a twinge of surprise when he first proposes. (If anyone downloads it, the P&P version that's best, IMO, is read by Karen Savage.)
Search for a large print edition. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Prejudice-Large-Jane-Austen/dp/1522766987 this looks good. You can also use the IBSN number to order this edition from your local independent bookshop.
I personally enjoyed Lovers' Perjuries; Or, The Clandestine Courtship Of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. I would rate it 4.5/5 stars. The first half details how Jane and Frank met and fell in love at Weymouth, and the second half follows the events in Emma.
Another decent one is Dear Jane. This novel goes through Jane and Frank's childhood, meeting and falling in love at Weymouth, and the events in Emma. Disclaimer, the author does have 'unsavory' moments (>!Frank and Mr. Dixon have sex with low class women!<), which some people dislike. Also the author does not like Emma the character and it is very clear in her writing. I would rate it 3 stars because I rather like Emma the character and I thought her characterization of Jane was rather boring and Mary Sue-like.
This is really nice! Thank you. It's not expensive so I think I add that in with whatever book I buy.
>There were some posts on here a few months about an edition of P&P that has all the letters written out by hand, in envelopes that you can take out. She might enjoy that.
I don't know how I remember this, but she told me her friend bought this and they spent a whole day going through it together lol. Don't really want to double up on that.
I must put in a word for my favourite book told from Darcy's POV The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street. It is PURELY P&P told from Darcy's viewpoint; and it is quite old and also, apparently, no longer available as a Kindle edition https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Confession-Fitzwilliam-Darcy-Mary-Street/dp/0709064314/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635003715&sr=1-2
I am wary of recommending it because it is British and very low key; there is no sense that the author has written the book they want to write and attached Austen's name to it for the sake of selling.
The author is actually from Derbyshire and some of her descriptions of that county, and the love Darcy has for it, are extremely vivid; it has a very real sense of place. the proposal at Hunsford is very well done and it was THIS book, not P&P itself (or even Colin Firth)), which made me realise that Darcy had no expectation of it being refused.
Leenie Brown finds a way to bring Kitty and the Colonel together despite there being no sudden influx of cash https://smile.amazon.co.uk/His-Inconvenient-Choice-Prejudice-Variation-ebook/dp/B01BU39JDY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=his+inconvenient+choice&qid=1625005459&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 It is not particularly likely but it is a pleasant enough storyand I liked it well enough to buy it
I really enjoyed this one. Lighthearted and fun like the original; shows the genuinely loving relationship between Henry and Catherine (but no sex scenes). It also is a very good read and completely in character. Must love dogs though. I remember in the original NA, Henry really shows affection for Catherine when he realizes that she loves dogs. https://smile.amazon.com/There-Must-Murder-Margaret-Sullivan/dp/0615425879/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=%22there+must+be+murder%22&qid=1622888116&sr=8-2
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emma-Penguin-Clothbound-Classics-Austen/dp/014119247X
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Penguin Clothbound Classics are very attractive with fantastic notes in the back.
There's a published story, Mistaken by Jessie Lewis, where Bingley falls for Elizabeth. Jane's not already married in this one though, she's just not as nice as she appears and Bingley's not interested in her.
I’d strongly recommend this book set. I bought it for myself and it’s great! Not too pricy either.
I don’t know where she got it but You can get it on Amazon
They make several Jane Austen themed adult colouring books that may make a fun little gift
A friend gave me this illustrated version of P&P as a gift several years ago and it's my favorite coffee table book. I display it a few times per year, but the rest of the time I keep it on a bookshelf as I get a lot of natural light in my living room and don't want the cover to fade.
Well, spinsterhood does not preclude the possibility of the occasional romance, even way back in Regency-era England. Having said that, I'm sure you're right and the movie will be a fictionalized and somewhat speculative story of her life. The book, Jane By the Sea, is lightly, but well reviewed on Amazon. Has anyone read it?
Longbourn by Jo Baker, P&P from the servants point of view, got it for my mother for Christmas http://www.amazon.co.uk/Longbourn-Jo-Baker/dp/0552779512/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422180462&sr=8-1&keywords=longbourne