Jane Austen’s books are constantly adapted for television and film; her world has spun off into an entire cottage industry where people dress up as her characters and attend Regency-style balls. Now that obsession is set to reach new heights with a host of novels that draw inspiration from the author’s life and fiction.
Coming in the first half of this year are: Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen, reimagining the author through the eyes of her sister Cassandra; Janice Hadlow’s The Other Bennet Sister, asking us to consider Pride and Prejudice’s Mary in a different light; and Helen Moffett’s Charlotte, picking up the story of that same novel’s Charlotte Lucas. All of them are attempts to recreate the Austen universe for different times by means of lesser-known characters, both fictional and real.
It’s a testimony to the power of the original novels that readers feel moved to create something of their own.
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