“Mr Malcolm’s List” by Suzanne Allain
One can picture many a merry argument continuing after the pages are done.
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elizabethdonnebook
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
Gardening like Jane
Did Jane Austen emerge from the confines of winter with an enthusiasm for soil and greenery?
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elizabethdonnebook
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
"Marianne" by Jenny Hambly
Marianne is a plain-speaking young lady — perhaps too plain-speaking by acceptable standards.
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elizabethdonnebook
- May 17, 2021
- 5 min
War in the Life and Works of Jane Austen
Three-quarters of Austen’s life was experienced through the lens of war. Why, then, do we see so little of it in her books?
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elizabethdonnebook
- May 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Earl’s Lady Geologist by Alissa Baxter
Alissa Baxter has woven fascinating details about the fossils at Lyme Regis into a most enjoyable narrative.
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elizabethdonnebook
- Apr 19, 2021
- 2 min
What's wrong with an envelope?
It would be unusual for a Regency author to write a scene in which the heroine eagerly rips open an envelope.
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elizabethdonnebook
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
The Governess of Penwythe Hall by Sarah E. Ladd
The descriptions of Cornwall in general, and the characters’ more immediate environments in particular, are detailed and exquisite.
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elizabethdonnebook
- Mar 8, 2021
- 4 min
Rescuing Lord Inglewood by Sally Britton
The title caught my attention at once. It is not often the heroine saves the gentleman.
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elizabethdonnebook
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Sense and Sensibility: Finding Happiness in the Average
“I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”
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elizabethdonnebook
- Nov 2, 2020
- 8 min
Emma: What the Humor Hides
distressing aspects of the book that lie beneath the veneer of Austen’s wit
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elizabethdonnebook
- Aug 3, 2020
- 6 min
Religion in Mansfield Park
Through the worldly characters of Henry and Mary Crawford, Austen presents an unexpectedly controversial debate.
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elizabethdonnebook
- May 25, 2020
- 4 min
Jane Austen in the 21st Century
the movie adaptations have gone a long way to bringing Austen’s works to life again
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