Category: Jane Austen
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After the Park
Hello again, and welcome back for another excerpt of “An Interrupted Proposal.” Thank you all for putting up with me doing these excerpts while I work on finishing my degree. I hope you are enjoying the story. For those of you just joining or wanting to reread the prior posts, here are the links: What…
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Final Look at Austen Books, Military
I didn’t intend to write multiple times on inexpensive Austen books, particularly those produced for the modern military. But it turns out this is the third and final effort at the topic. … Because Jane Austen was generally well received by the scholarly community from early on, beginning with Sir Walter Scott, it is easy…
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Excerpt from Storm-Smith WIP
Hello friends! It is spring and there is always so much to get done this time of year. Right now, I’m travelling with my family doing some conferences for our small business while school is out on break, so instead of my normal ranting about on this blog, I’m going to change gears a bit…
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Modernizing Pride and Prejudice
I’m super excited because in just six days, I’ll be releasing my first modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, “Swipe Right for Mr. Darcy”! When trying to bring a 200+ year-old story into the modern age, authors obviously face some difficulties trying to modernize certain aspects of the story, because there are plot points in…
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Feliz Páscoa!
One of my favourite parts of writing Total Want of Propriety was Portugal. My nerd heart rejoiced to have new useless factoids to research, and many were the rabbit holes I fell down, branching into dozens of delightful warrens. Even the language was fun for me – and I am using Duolingo to further what…
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When Chocolate WAS a Breakfast Treat
There is not a day that I do not wake with the anticipation of my first sip of coffee. The fourth cup, for me, is as delicious as the first, be it at noon or eight in the evening, just before I go to bed. I think of this very pleasure when I read a…
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6 Things You Never Knew About Colin Firth’s Iconic Lake Scene (The last one will blow your mind!)
Some fun facts about the unforgettable lake scene…and the last one is a doozy.
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Writing an Author’s Truth in Austenesque Fiction
What makes writing Austenesque variations exciting is that, in the hands of an author ready to explore truths that informed Jane Austen’s life and those of her characters, we are no longer constrained by the epochal notions enshrined in film or video. Rather, fresh approaches are sought in fantasy (Maria Grace and Abigail Reynolds, for…
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Fanny Price is the New Pink
I saw a comment about Fanny that floored me because it made so much sense. On a thread about polarizing characters, User appletreerose said, “with Austen’s male characters, she often opposes a charming louse with a good man who doesn’t easily catch the eye. I think Mansfield Park is the only time she does this…
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Jane Austen’s Books Don’t Take Place over a Year and Other Myths
Three myths are repeated a lot in online Austen spaces and they don’t take very long to refute, so here they are 1. Austen’s novels span a year The only Austen novel where the main action spans a single year is Pride & Prejudice: Now one may quibble about the “main action” so I’ve done…