More Austen Spin-Offs
Ok, I know I wrote on Wednesday that this post would contain ideas for using books in unusual ways, but PBS is showing Emma on Sunday! I wanted to sneak in another Jane Austen post. Seriously, we found so many books related to Jane Austen that we have probably two more posts planned. I hope you can stand it.
In our last Jane Austen post, we recommended some books by other authors that use Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a launching pad. Now, here are a number of books that either imagine a continuation to Jane Austen’s other novels or tell the further adventures of her other novels’ characters. Perhaps you’ll find one or two of interest….
Mansfield Revisited, by Joan Aiken. Doubleday, 1985.
The Youngest Miss Ward, by Joan Aiken. St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Eliza’s Daughter, by Joan Aiken. St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed, by Joan Aiken. St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Jane Fairfax: Jane Austen’s Emma, Through Another’s Eyes, by Joan Aiken. St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
A Visit to Highbury: Another View of Emma, by Joan Austen-Leigh. St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Mr. Knightley’s Diary, by Amanda Grange. Berkley Trade, 2007.
Finally, Sybil Brinton wrote a novel that involves characters from all of Jane Austen’s novels, called Old Friends and New Fancies. The Greene County Public Library does not own a copy of this book right now, but we should be able to request it for you through the Worldcat interlibrary loan system. Worldcat is a catalog of hundreds of libraries around the country (and the world). Through this system, you can search for an item that GCPL does not own, and request that it be sent to GCPL for you to borrow. It takes two to four weeks for these items to come in, and you may generally borrow them for three weeks, with one renewal period. Fines for overdues are higher than the fines for regular items, but Worldcat is a wonderful way to have access to more items than are available in Greene County.
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