Jonesin' for Jane? Look no further. Austen's original books may be of finite supply, but works based on her characters are still in demand. This list gives Austen-oholics what they're craving: new titles with familiar faces and places. Get your fix with one of these intoxicating novels.
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Pride & Prejudice Sense & Sensibility Mansfield Park Emma
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NOVELS INFLUENCED BY PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman -- Pamela Aidan
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Told from the perspective of Darcy, the first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball, and offers insight into his complicated past. |
Next in the series:
Duty and Desire These Three Remain
The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy -- Elizabeth Aston
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Alethea, the youngest and most rebellious daughter of the former Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, plots to escape the brutish husband she wed in haste by disguising herself as a man, an endeavor that is compromised by a man who would reclaim his family's priceless Titian painting. |
Also by Elizabeth Aston:
Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues -- Linda Berdoll
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This novel begins the day after Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding and follows the couple through the ups and downs of married life. Other major Austen characters also appear—Elizabeth's sisters Jane and Lydia, as well as Bingley and the charmingly detestable Wickham. |
Lady Catherine's Necklace -- Joan Aiken
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Ralph Delaval and his sister Priscilla have a carriage accident and arrive at Rosings seeking aid. Lady Catherine then embarks on a journey; a diamond necklace of hers is declared fake, and a letter arrives informing the family that Lady Catherine has been kidnapped. |
Teverton Hall -- Jane Gillespie
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The author of "Ladysmead" takes up a thread from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" as she continues the story of the ludicrously self-satisfied Reverend William Collins. |
Presumption: An Entertainment-- Julia Barrett
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A sequel to Jane Austen's most beloved work picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off, following the lives of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Bingley, Mr. Darcy, and especially Georgiana Darcy, the sequel's central character. |
Pemberley, or Pride and Prejudice Continued -- Emma Tennant
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A sequel to Pride and Prejudice takes up the story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy a year after their wedding as Christmas approaches and gossip, prejudice, and troublesome relatives again cause them discomfort. |
Also by Emma Tennant:
An Unequal Marriage, or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later
NOVELS INFLUENCED BY SENSE & SENSIBILITY:
Brightsea -- Jane Gillespie
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Nancy Steeles--the older of the Steele sisters--seems doomed to spinsterhood until she is offered a post as guardian and chaperone for young Louisa Retford at the summer resort of Brightsea. |
Eliza's Daughter -- Joan Aiken
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Eliza's daughter, Liz grows up as a charming, well-educated tomboy in the town of Byblow Bottom, until she is brought back to the Dashwood home. |
The Third Sister: A Sequel to Sense and Sensibility -- Julia Barrett
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Margaret Dashwood, the youngest sister introduced at the end of Sense and Sensibility, must choose between the nice and serious George Osborne or the handsome and daring Lieutenant William du Plessy. |
NOVELS INFLUENCED BY MANSFIELD PARK:
The Youngest Miss Ward -- Joan Aiken
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Hatty Ward, one of the sisters from Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park," has been sent to live with her uncle by her family who no longer want her around them, but once settled at her new residence, she finds a new battle with Lady Ursula over the affections of a special man. |
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Ladysmead -- Jane Gillespie
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Mrs. Maria Rushton and her abrasive aunt Mrs. Norris rent ""Ladysmead,"" a hitherto ill-kept house in the Lancashire countryside. The little society available there is dismal indeed. So Mrs. Rushton finds herself meddling in the lives of Rev. Thomas Loekley (an austerely abstracted widower) and his two remaining unmarried daughters. |
Version and Diversion -- Judith Terry
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Jane Hartwell, lady's maid to Miss Julia Bertram of Mansfield Park, escapes the pitfalls of the Bertram household only to be hounded by bounty hunters in the streets of London, in this complementry novel to Jane Austen's famous "Mansfield Park". |
A Visit to Highbury -- Joan Austen-Leigh
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The great-great-grandniece of Jane Austen offers a delightful and refreshing visit with some of the classic characters from Austen's famous novel Emma, giving a parallel view of Highbury through the eyes of the local schoolmistress. |
Also by Joan Austen-Leigh:
Jane Fairfax: A Sequel to Emma -- Joan Aiken
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The outsider who threatens to outshine her new friend Emma in Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and romance takes on a deeper life, with her own feelings and desires. |
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor -- Stephanie Barron
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Visiting the estate of her friend Isobel, the newly married Countess of Scargrave, Jane Austen is drawn into a mystery when Isobel's husband dies suspiciously and the bereaved young bride is implicated in the murder. |
Next in the Series:
Jane and the Genius of the Place
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy
Jane and the Barque of Frailty
Pride & Prescience, or A Truth Universally Acknowledged: A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery -- Carrie Bebris
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Just after their wedding, the newlywed hero and heroine of "Pride and Prejudice" become involved in a bizarre mystery involving wedding guest Caroline Bingley, who has become engaged to wed a wealthy, charismatic American. |
Next in the Series:
Suspense & Sensibility, or First Impressions
North by Northanger, or the Shades of Pemberley
Bridget Jones's Diary -- Helen Fielding
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Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and other baffling complexities of modern life. |
The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy -- Janice Harayda
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Although Lily Blair appears to live a charmed life with a loving family, a budding career, and a wonderful, wealthy fiance, a month before her wedding she must come to terms with her own doubts and find a way to have it all. |
By a Lady: Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England -- Amanda Elyot
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During an audition for a play about Jane Austen, New York actress C. J. Welles is transported back in time to Bath, England, at the turn of the nineteenth century, where she is befriended by the eccentric Lady Euphoria Dalrymple, falls for Owen Percival, the Earl of Darlington, the cousin of Jane Austen, and finds herself torn between two different eras. |
Pride, Prejudice, and Jasmin Field -- Melissa Nathan
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Successful magazine journalist Jasmine Field finds her life falling apart--her best friend leaves, her family unravels, and her column hits the skids--just when she lands the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet in a charity performance of Pride and Prejudice opposite arrogant Hollywood heartthrop Harry Noble. |
The Jane Austen Book Club -- Karen Joy Fowler
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As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love. |
Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice -- Kate Fenton
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Observing the modern-day romances that mark the filming of the BBC's latest production, impoverished novelist Llew Bevan witnesses the unlikely pairing of the movie's leading lady and his bashful neighbor as well as the interplay between its haphazard starring actor and imperious director. |
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen -- Sally Smith O'Rourke
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After discovering a letter to Jane Austen from Fitzwilliam Darcy--a supposedly fictional character--in the back of her antique vanity's mirror, Eliza Knight searches for the only man who knows the truth behind this mystery. |
Jane Austen in Boca -- Paula Marantz Cohen
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A send-up of "Pride and Prejudice" set in a Florida retirement village follows a circle of retirees on a voyage of love and manners. |
Also by Paula Marantz Cohen
Jane Austen in Scarsdale, or Love, Death, and the SATs
Austenland -- Shannon Hale
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Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, where she hopes to meet a perfect Regency-era gentleman of her own. |
Updated June 21, 2007