Elizabeth Donne Books

One can picture many a merry argument continuing after the pages are done.

Did Jane Austen emerge from the confines of winter with an enthusiasm for soil and greenery?

Marianne is a plain-speaking young lady — perhaps too plain-speaking by acceptable standards.

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?

Alissa Baxter has woven fascinating details about the fossils at Lyme Regis into a most enjoyable narrative.

It would be unusual for a Regency author to write a scene in which the heroine eagerly rips open an envelope.

The descriptions of Cornwall in general, and the characters’ more immediate environments in particular, are detailed and exquisite.

The title caught my attention at once. It is not often the heroine saves the gentleman.

“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.”

distressing aspects of the book that lie beneath the veneer of Austen’s wit

Through the worldly characters of Henry and Mary Crawford, Austen presents an unexpectedly controversial debate.

the movie adaptations have gone a long way to bringing Austen’s works to life again