Hold onto your bonnets, Janeites: New book The Other Bennet Sister, which takes over where Pride and Prejudice left off, imagines whether the serious Mary might also find love.
; Beth Pattillo investigates the author’s private letters in; and Alexander McCall Smith introduces us to a smart matchmaking miss inSome Austen updates get a little weird. Val McDermid has fun with teenage girls and vampires in her version ofThe Jane Austen ProjectWould you rather read fact than fiction? There’s an inexhaustible supply here too.
Why are we so perennially fascinated with this private woman and her world? Devoney Looser, an Austen scholar at Arizona State University, has a good answer. The beauty of her novels is that they present things in an open-ended way, she says in an interview on the Five Books website. ‘‘That we can look at the social structures she presents so minutely and see ways that a person can make choices and manoeuvre in them – even though they aren’t our structures any more – is why the novels still speak to us.’’Jane Sullivan’s latest book,
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