Sense and Sensibility (Modern Library)
by Jane Austen
Elinor and Marianne are two sisters with very different personalities. Elinor is practical and reserved. Marianne is emotional and vivacious. They struggle to understand each other, but ultimately they learn from one another. Although the sisters find romance in unexpected places, it is their sisterly relationship that defines them.
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Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal (Goodreads Author)
1 out of 5 stars
DNF at page 49.
Alys and her four sisters are attending the biggest wedding of the year, and their mother, Mrs. Binat, is hoping that they will catch the eye of rich bachelors. Alys is not interested in hunting for a husband, until she meets the handsome Valentine Darsee.
Jane and the Final Mystery (Being a Jane Austen Mystery #15)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane knows she is nearing the end of her life. Her health has been deteriorating for months and the doctors give her six months to live. However, when her old friend Elizabeth Heathcote is in trouble, Jane and her nephew Edward are ready to help. Elizabeth’s son, William, has been accused of murdering a schoolmate at Winchester College, a boys’ boarding school. Jane’s nephew Edward tells her all about the boys college and how William endured hazing and cruel pranks. But could William have lashed out at his tormentors to the extent of murdering one of them?
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Jane and the Year Without a Summer (Jane Austen Mysteries, #14)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane and her sister Cassandra are visiting Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. They hope that by sampling the sulfurous waters, Jane’s health might improve. They stay at a boarding house and are very curious about the other guests. One of the boarders is Miss Williams, a young lady confined to a wheelchair, who is constantly fussed over and spoiled by her faithful friend. A married couple are always complaining and making things unpleasant for everyone. Jane is surprised to find that her friend Raphael West appears to know another one of the boarders, Mrs. Smith, who works with a theater company. But when a murder occurs at a masquerade ball, Jane realizes there must be some connection to the people at their boardinghouse.
Continue readingToday I was invited to speak at a meeting with the Jane Austen Society of North America at the Georgia Chapter in Atlanta! It was a wonderful group of people, all excited to talk about classic literature and Jane Austen.
Here are my notes from that speech! So you can look up anything that you missed during the meeting.
And you can watch the entire event in the Youtube Livestream!
Jane and the Waterloo Map (Jane Austen Mysteries, #13)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane is invited to the palace of the Prince Regent to visit his library. She is “delighted” that the Prince Regent has “granted her the honor” of dedicating her next book to him, even though she secretly despises the Prince Regent for his selfishly lavish lifestyle. While Jane is visiting the library, a military man stumbles in, foaming at the mouth and evidently poisoned. Before he dies, he manages to whisper two words to Jane, “Waterloo Map”. Jane begins to investigate what the poor man could have meant, and why he would have been poisoned in the Prince Regent’s own house.
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Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Jane Austen Mysteries #12)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane, Cassandra, and their mother, Mrs. Austen, are visiting their old country parsonage where Jane’s brother, James, is now residing. They visit the Chute family at their estate for the Christmas festivities, but a military messenger is found dead, thrown from his horse. Jane thinks it must be murder, and one of the other guests, an artist, agrees with her.
The best part of this story is learning about the Regency Christmas traditions, games, food, parties, and other family habits at Christmastime!
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Jane and the Canterbury Tale (Jane Austen Mysteries, #11)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane is visiting her brother Edward at his large estate. Their acquaintance Adelaide Fisk is getting married again, but her previous husband shows up on her wedding day… dead. He was thought to have died abroad years ago, but his murdered body is discovered adjacent to Edward’s property. As the magistrate, Edward must investigate – with Jane to help, of course!
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Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (Jane Austen Mysteries, #10)
by Stephanie Barron
Following the death of her sister-in-law, Eliza, Jane Austen and her bereaved brother Henry spend two weeks at Brighton for their health. As soon as they arrive, they discover a young lady kidnapped and tied up in Lord Byron’s carriage! They free the young lady and restore her to her father, who accuses her of purposefully running away with the romantic Lord Byron. A few days later, the poor girl is found murdered, and Jane suspects that Byron could be the culprit. Every woman who meets Byron feels his magnetic charm, and even Jane herself is not immune. He is wild and arrogant, but is he a murderer?
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Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane Austen Mysteries #9)
by Stephanie Barron
Jane Austen is visiting her brother and sister-in-law in London, when a foreign princess is murdered. Jane is accused of being involved, and she starts her own investigation to find the real killer. A “barque of frailty” is a polite society term for a prostitute, and Jane discovers that one such woman highly-placed in society might hold a clue to the murder.
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