![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenner does not rely only on a reader’s familiarity with the most famous of Austen’s stories, Pride and Prejudice, but also draws heavily from Emma and Persuasion, while updating the world her characters live in. Jenner’s novel relies on characters that could have sprung from Austen’s imagination: an intelligent girl from a large family who has to make her own way in the world, a bold teacher who prescribes a “steady diet of lady authors” for the boys in her school, a mature widower who falls in love with a vivacious young woman, a rich but insensitive husband, a self-educated farmer, an heiress who gave up her chance at love at her father’s insistence. Eventually a couple of independent-minded women, along with influential men who support them, develop a scheme to save Austen’s legacy and improve the village’s economy. ![]() Rider Haggard’s adventure fiction to Austen’s domestic fiction. The residents of Chawton, Hampshire, do not appreciate all that their Jane Austen connection can do for their peaceful village until a visit by an American fan of the early nineteenth-century novelist converts one man of the village from H. Set in the years leading up to and during World War II, this charming story is built on an intriguing premise. ![]()
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