| Orig. author | Book or character | PFF author | PFF title | Publisher | Date | Cat 1 | Cat 2 | Cat 3 | Notes | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Aiken, Joan | Jane Fairfax | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1990 | 1990 | Refocalization | Expansion | Prequel,sequel | Jane Fairfax's life beyond the boundaries of Emma, including her life in Highbury and London, and the tribulations of the hidden engagement to Frank Churchill. Many OCs, but key scenes from the original are worked in-- the ball, Mr. Knightley catching on to the engagement, the strawberry party, and Box Hill. | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Austen-Leigh, Joan | Visit to Highbury | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1993 | 1993 | Refocalization | "A parallel novel that looks at life in Austen's beloved village through the eyes of Mrs. Goddard, the mistress of the local school attended by Emma's protegee, Harriet Smith." Epistolary prequel to Later Days at Highbury, introduces Mrs. G's sister, Charlotte Pinkney, Mdm. Dubois's school, and Charlotte Gordon, soon to be Mrs. Marlow. Meta references to novels by a lady author, possibly Jane Eyre. Published as "Mrs. Goddard, Mistress of a School" in Canada. The author is a descendant of Jane Austen. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Austen-Leigh, Joan | Later Days at Highbury | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996 | 1996 | Refocalization | Sequel | Sequel to Latter Days at Highbury, told in same epistolary style between Mrs. G and the Ocs introduced in the first book. Emma is spoken of but doesn't appear. Mrs. G is a very minor character in original. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Billington, Rachel | Perfect Happiness | London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996 | 1996 | Expansion | Sequel | Jane Fairfax Churchill dies in childbirth, Frank is crazed with grief, John Knightley goes bankrupt, Mrs. Bates dies of shock because of Frank...it's an endless tale of woe (400 pages!) in which Emma finally grows up. Big breakthrough: Emma finally calls her husband George instead of Knightley. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Gillespie, Jane | Aunt Celia | NY: St. Maritn's Press, 1990 | 1993 | Refocalization | Sequel | Set 16 years after Emma, the story centers on the widowed Mr. Weston, his children, and their romantic complications. Frank & Jane Churchill visit but Emma & George Knightley do not appear. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Gillespie, Jane | Truth & Rumour | Anstey, Leicester: F.A. Thorpe, 1995 (c. 1993, this is large print edition) | 1983 | Refocalization | Sequel | Set 20 years after Emma. All about the romantic woes of the children of various Emma characters and OCs, and the evil of gossip, thanks to Mr. Elton. Francesca (Fanny) Elton and Perdita Martin are friends. Betsey Martin, Perdita's younger sister, has a crush on Rev. John Sharpe. Mysterious Dr. Daniel Gray arrives looking for tombstones. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Grey, Charlotte | Journal of Miss Jane Fairfax | London: Hale, 1983 | 1983 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Smith, Naomi Gladys Royde | Jane Fairfax | London: Macmillan & Co, 1940 | 1940 | Crossover | The title character is from Emma but characters from Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and probably other novels appear. Dense and dull--all tell, no show. Mostly about Mrs. Campbell and her p.o.v. Leaden and dull, gave up on p. 175 of 323. Last part seems like a retelling of Emma. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Tennant, Emma | Emma in Love | London: Fourth Estate, 1997 | 1998 | Expansion | The most entertaining part is the little note inside that claims Tennant created a new literary genre, the classic progression. Because apparently no one ever wrote a sequel before. Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax did not marry and JF is now a governess. Emma plans a match between widowed John Knightley and JF, is kissed by the mysterious baroness d'Almine, who is really a jewel thief, and finally consummates--after 4 years--her marriage. Oh, and FC's brother-in-law is a cross-dresser. There's more, but who cares. The usual Tennant crapfest. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Lady Susan | Karr, Phyllis Ann | Lady Susan | NY: Everest House,1980 | 1980 | Unfinished MSS | Drivel. Based on Austen's unfinished novel but makes it just another Regency romance. Amoral and poor Lady Susan Vernon schemes to force her daughter, the painfully insipid Frederica, into a rich but loveless match. Gave up on 102 of 301. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Aiken, Joan | Youngest Miss Ward | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998 | 1998 | Refocalization | Sequel | A retelling of Mansfield Park, if Fanny wasn't a wuss. Hatty Ward, younger sister of Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Price, is sent off to live with an aunt and uncle. Hatty=Fanny Price, Ned=Edmund/William, Harry Camber=Edmund, Lady Ursula=Mrs. Norris. Harry goes off to America to start a Utopian community but unfortunately, the book doesn't go with him; Hatty is not an engaging enough character to make the book interesting when all of the plots are purely domestic and dull, although there are a couple of twists at the end wrt who marries who. The opening promises scandal (to account for why this Miss Ward is not mentioned in MP) but doesn't deliver, but scandal for 19th century is commonplace for 21st. Meta: last note seems to refer to Austen and Austen-Leighs. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Aiken, Joan | Mansfield Revisited | NY: Doubleday, 1985 | 1985 | Refocalization | Sequel | Not her best. Set 4 years after Mansfield Park, focuses on Susan. Mary Crawford, extremely ill, moves into the White House and becomes friends with Susan. Julia has become like Mrs. Norris. Mrs. Osborne, widow of an admiral, and her brother Frank Wadham move into the parsonage (as Edmund, Fanny and the younger of their two children have gone to Antigua following Sir Thomas's death). Usual romantic plot. Old tyme spellings--chuse, stopt, drest, etc. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Allen, Dorothy & Ann Owen | Mansfield Park | Burton-on-Trent: Kay & Doouglas, 1989 | 1989 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Atchia, Paula | Mansfield Letters | Sussex: Book Guild, 1996 | 1996 | Expansion | Sequel | Set 13 years after Mansfield Park and Fanny still hasn't developed a personality. She's a poor widow living at MP with her son Edmund. Tom is off in Italy [spoiler]and marries Mary Crawford. Henry Crawford has been serving in India and returns. F must choose between clergyman Thwait and HC. Mrs. N, Maria, and Sir Thomas all died en route to Antigua several years earlier.[/spoiler] | ||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Brown, Francis | Susan Price, or Resolution | London: John Lane, 1930 | 1930 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Gillespie, Jane | Ladysmead | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982 | 1982 | Refocalization | Sequel | Mrs. Norris and Maria settle near the Lockley family, which includes Sophia and her younger sister Lucinda. Maria is called Mrs. Rushton (should be Rushworth). Another snoozer, but brief. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Gordon, Victor | Mrs Rushworth | London: Andre Deutsch, 1989 | 1989 | Refocalization | Personalization | By a man, baby! Maria and Mrs. N settle temporarily in a town, then they encounter the book Mansfield Park, and so do the other people of the town. Maria emigrates, marries Charles Cheviot, and later returns to England. Sir Thomas dies, money goes, CC works on an opera of Henry V, Maria runs off again to join a theatre group...Boring plot with unengaging characters who almost uniformly comport themselves badly and end badly. Meta: they read about themselves and critique the presentation, later discuss how Austen got her info. RP: Edmund Kean. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Terry, Judith | Version & Diversion | NY: William Morrow, 1986 | 1986 | Refocalization | Mansfield Park as told by Jane Hartwell, lady's maid to Julia. Parallels MP up to Sir Thomas's return during the theatrical, then JH runs off to London in company with a revolutionary, has various adventures on the way to becoming an actress, and re-encounters Henry Crawford, Maria, Julia, Tom, and Rushworth. Entertaining. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey | Gillespie, Jane | Uninvited Guests | London: Janus, 1994 | 1994 | Refocalization | Sequel | Set about 20 years after Northanger Abbey, various characters and OCs converge on the house. Isabella, now a poor widow, invited herself, then her son Roland and Roland's pupil Charles to stay at Abbey. Paulina, daughter of Col. Tilney, arrives with bachelor uncle James Morland. [Catherine married Henry Tilney, clergyman]. Meta?: Isabella's married name is Firth. G-- d---, I hate the use of dashes in curse words. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | Beckford, Grania | Virtues & Vices | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1980 | 1981 | Dislocation | One of the online bibs has this listed under Emma, but it's an AU Persuasion, set in Edwardian England. Last names remain the same but first names are changed (Angela for Anne, Edwina for Elizabeth, Wilberforce for William, etc.). Each chapter is told by a different character, retelling a handful of key encounters. Lots of f/f as well as m/f, but only one cheat of an m/m scene (young monster George gives sleeping Wilberforce a handjob under supervision of Edwina). Characters speak with cheerful candor about their sexcapades...It's a pity about the pedophilia and incest. Almost PWP but there is an overarching plot. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | Menzies, June | His Cunning or Hers | Prepared for the 1993 Conference of the JASNA | 1993 | Recontextualization | An illustrated 60 page booklet of letters from "Penelope" Clay to her sister, and from William Elliott to his friend Wallis, and between Clay and Elliott, illuminating an unresolved subplot of Persuasion. His cunning--he seduces and abandons her. Her cunning--they marry and produce 6 daughters, each bearing the name of a JA heroine.<--Meta. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Aidan, Pamela | Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman series: An Assemby Such As This; Duty & Desire; These Three Remain. A Novel in three Parts | United States: Wytherngate Press, 2003 | 2003 | Recontextualization | "A Novel in Three Parts." Book 1 covers the timeline of Pride & Prejudice from the assembly in Meryton to Darcy's departure for London, and some activities in London. Stylish but drags because it's a minute exploration of what Darcy was thinking and feeling every minute in every scene from P&P as well as scenes not in the original. True fan fic in that one needs a deep knowledge of the original to get it. Several OCs, RPs include Beau Brummel and Lady Caroline Lamb. Meta: Sense & Sensibility as a new novel brought to D's attention. | Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Aiken, Joan | Lady Catherine's Necklace | NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000 | 1999 | Refocalization | Another action-packed continuation with wish-fulfilment endings from Aiken. OCs Ralph and Priscilla Delaval have a carriage "accident" and stay at Rosings Park with Lady Catherine and Anne, hijinx ensue. Proto-slash with implied-gay couple Old Tom and Young Tom. [spoiler]Fun twist that garden boy Joss, who becomes Anne's friend, turns out to be a girl and Lord Lewis de Bourgh's illegitimate child by the former parson's wife.[/spoiler] |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Aston, Elizabeth | Mr. Darcy's Daughters | NY: Touchstone, 2003 | 2003 | Refocalization | Sequel | It's a long one with many complications, but it's just about courtship again. Darcy and Elizabeth's 5 daughters stay with Fitzwilliam, his 2nd wife, and their children in London while D&E are on a diplomatic mission to Turkey in 1818. The girls combine traits of the Bennet sisters: Letty is Jane and Mary, Camilla--the pov character--is Elizabeth, twins Georgina and Belle are Lydia and a little Kitty, Alethea is all about music, but also a little E and most adventurous. They court love, scandal, and near ruin in the social season as heiresses with 50K pounds each. Caroline Bingley is now Lady Warren but still a troublemaker. Not bad, just not very amusing or pointed about the issues and I'm not sure what to make of the Sydney Leigh subplot. Is the book homophobic or just the chacters?. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Aylmer, Janet | Darcy's Story | Bath UK: Copperfield Books, 1996 | 1996 | Recontextualization | Pride & Prejudice from Darcy's point of view. Not as minute as Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman but not as readable a Darcy, either. Also, no OCs. Begins around the time D pays Wickham to stay away from Georgiana and ends with marriage. Author saw P&P "on stage and screen" (note date) as well as being fond of the book. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Bader, Ted & Marilyn | Desire & Duty | Denver: Revive Publishing, 1997 | 1997 | Refocalization | Sequel | Preface by McAleer recaps previous P&P sequels. From cover and tone, this is YA. It's also insipidly pious--Kitty has to reform to be worthy of clergyman Henry Westwood. Poor (comparatively) gentleman Thomas must resolve faith issues to be worthy of Georgiana. Glossary and references at the end. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Bader, Ted & Marilyn | Virtue & Vanity | Denver: Revive Publishing, 2000 | 2000 | Refocalization | Sequel | Continues Desire & Duty. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Barrett, Julia | Presumption | NY: M. Evans & Co, 1993 | 1993 | Expansion | Sequel | JB=Julia Braun Kessler and Gabrielle Donnelly. Set early in Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage, with the usual fanon clashes between the families, but mostly about Georgiana's courtship. Caroline Bingley, Anne de Bourgh, Kitty and her clergyman (as per Austen's letters). Author has annoying style tic of starting sentence with adjective or adverb: "Apprehensive he had been..." "With impatience had she waited..." | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Bebris, Carrie | Pride & Prescience (or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged): A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery | NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2004 | 2004 | Genre shift | Sequel | First in a series. Elizabeth and Darcy are now married, but their honeymoon trip to Pemberley is repeatedly postponed by problems with Caroline Bingley's fiance/husband, Frederick Parrish of Louisiana. Plot involves paranormal elements, which Elizabeth accepts and Darcy doesn't. [spoiler] Parrish controlling CB (with an eye to getting hold of her family fortune through the murder of her brother and then her) with a set of magical rings.[/spoiler] | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility | Bebris, Carrie | Suspense & Sensibility | NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005 | 2005 | Genre shift | Crossover | Sequel | Mr. And Mrs. Darcy sponsor Kitty's season in London and she becomes engaged to Harry Dashwood, son of Fanny and John. Elinor and Edward, the Middletons, and other Sense & Sensibility characters also appear. RP: Sir Francis Dashwood, of the Hellfire Club. Meta: "the story of Dashwood family feud could fill a book". | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey | Bebris, Carrie | North by Northanger, or, the Shades of Pemberley | NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006 | 2006 | Genre shift | Crossover | Sequel | The memory of Lady Anne and all she wrought casts a long shadow over pregnant Lizzie who finds a mysterious letter referring to a mysterious heirloom, and receives an invitation to Northanger Abbey from Frederick Tilney, whose mother and Lady Anne were friends. Meta: Compares NA to the Castle of Udolpho. Suggestion of ghostly doings and other mystical bits, as with the rest of the series. | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Berdoll, Linda | Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife | Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Inc, 2004 (pub'd 1999 as Bar Sinister) | 1999 | Eroticization | Expansion | Sequel | Smut! At last! Every sexual encounter of E&D. Ever. Plus the backstory on everyone who ever lived, visited, or passed within a 100 mile radius of Pemberley. The writing isn't bad, there are some very funny moments, but Christ almighty it's 465 pages! Of small, close-set type! With tiny margins! Utterly, utterly fan fic-ish--Darcy hung like a horse, very skilled, various positions and experiments are tried, Jane not having orgasms, E's first period while married, etc. I bet it was a long term WIP on a mailing list. Since it's so long, quite a bit happens, various schemes by nefarious servants and Wickham, abduction and near rape, miscarriages, still birth, will Lizzie ever reproduce, Jane has several children, and on and on. | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Berdoll, Linda | Darcy & Elizabeth | Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Inc, 2006 | 2006 | Eroticization | Expansion | Sequel | Follow-up to Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife. E&D's problems reestablishing intimacy after birth of twins. Lizzie vexed about D's French friend who brings Georgiana back from war. There might be a plot in here somewhere but I couldn't sift through 103 chapters and 429 pages to find it. | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Birchall, Diana | Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma | East Sussex: Egerton Publishing House, 2004 | 2004 | Expansion | Sequel | Another Egerton product. I suspect they're internet-based and print out fan fiction. In this one, which isn't bad, the Darcys are happily married after 25 years. Story revolves around their children and children of other P&P characters. Too bad the story doesn't follow Bettina (Lydia's spawn). She's rude and awful but her life after eloping sounds interesting. Fanon/JA: Kitty has married a parson and lives near Pemberley; Mary married a clerk. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Bonavia-Hunt, Dorothy Alice | Pemberley Shades | NY: E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1949 | 1949 | Expansion | Sequel | Pemberley site says it's good and it isn't bad, especially compared to Tennant and Gillespie. Elizabeth & Darcy have been married 3.5 years, and have a son, Richard. But main plot is about filling the living and the recovery of D friend, Maj. Wakeford, who has lost his arm and is depressed. Some hard to buy reactions and weird descriptions, but may be due to differences between 1949 and 2006. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Brinton, Sybil G. | Old Friends & New Fancies | Lakewood CO: Revive Publishing, 1998. Reprint of 1913 edition | 1914 | Crossover | Centers on P&P characters, especially Georgiana and Kitty who are both interested in Mansfield Park's William Price, as is Caroline Bingley but not so much. Col. "Robert" Fitzwilliam interested in Mary Crawford. Various romantic entanglements until all the right couples couple. This was apparently the earliest published sequel that wasn't a completion of Sanditon or The Watsons. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Burris, Skylar Hamilton | Conviction: A sequel to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice | Erie PA: Gannon University, 2004 | 2004 | Expansion | Sequel | Kitty and Georgina's courtship travails. Odd amount of talk about religion and abolition, together and separately. Fanon: E&D disappointed/worried about her not being pregnant while the Bingleys reproduce like rabbits. Lifeless. Skimmed. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Dawkins, Jane | Letters from Pemberley | Circleville, N.Y. : Chicken Soup Press, 1999 | 1999 | Expansion | Crossover | Sequel | Even less happens in this than in More Letters. Told in letters from Elizabeth to Jane during her first year of marriage, and utterly insipid. Fanon pregrnancy concerns. Several cross-over characters from other Austen works and some real people but it was too boring to bother recording them. | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Fasman, Marjorie | Diary of Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy | LA: New Leaf Press, 1998 | 1998 | Expansion | Recontextualization | Prequel | Darcy writes like a girl. The diary is given to him on his 10th birthday and sporadically maintained until January 1814, after marriage. Childhood familiar from every "X was a neglected child" fan fic ever written: cold, distant, disapproving mother; cold, distant, be-a-man father. Early encounters with Wickham and Bingley. One tutor at Harrow makes a pass. Gooey about courtship and TMI about wedding night (she bleeds). Completely unbelievable as the writings of a young man, esp. Darcy. Afterward reveals it was written after viewing the Colin Firth P&P. But I still love him. | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Fenton, Kate | Vanity and Vexation also published as Lions & Liquorice | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995 | 1995 | Dislocation | Personalization | Divided into episodes. Ep 1: Writers' blocked author Nicholas Llewellyn Bevan writes a spoof of Pride & Prejudice "in modern dress--and drag to boot" (p.113) based on the local filming of a P&P miniseries, with himself as Lizzy, director Mary as Mr. Darcy, best friend John as Jane, lead actress Candia as Bingley, etc. . Ep. 2-4: Nick's real life with the Wickham character after the P&P crew leave town, son Christopher running off to Bangkok with druggie, etc. Pomo frippery that could've been worse. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Fielding, Helen | Bridget Jones's Diary | NY: Viking, 1998 (c. 1996) | 1999 | Dislocation | Much better than the movie since it doesn't have Zellweger. OTOH, it doesn't have the beautiful Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget=Elizabeth, Mark=Darcy, Daniel and Julio=Wickham, Mrs. Jones=Mrs. B and Lydia, friends and coworkers =others. Balls become parties, elopement becomes a time share fraud. Meta: mentions of P&P with Firth and Ehle, and of Mark looking like CF. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Furley, Phyllis | Darcys: Scenes from a Marriage | UK: Egerton House, 2004 | 2004 | Expansion | Sequel | Thanks Juliette Shapiro (wrote Excessively Diverted) as editor at Egerton. Twelve scenes/intertwined short stories about the accommodations and compromises in early marriage--negotiating the awkwardness of intimacy and PDAs, getting to know the neighbors, the Bennets' vulgarity, snobbery, D's mistress and Bingley's daughter from the London break, Col. Fitzwilliam marrying a rich shopkeeper/philanthropist, Georgiana and Caroline's marital outlooks, etc. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Gillespie, Jane | Teverton Hall | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983 | 1983 | Refocalization | Sequel | Another Gillespie. The usual lightweight narrative with bland, unengaging characters: The Collins' son (Fitz)william joins Pavey & Son solicitors, mixes with Pavey and Dallow family. Romantic entanglements ensue. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Newark, Elizabeth | Consequence: Or Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas | San Francisco: New Ark, 1997 | 1997 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Piper, Warrene | New Lives (1932); Full Flower (1933) | 1933 | ||||||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Shapiro, Juliette | Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice | College Station TX: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2002 | 2002 | Expansion | Sequel | I was not excessively diverted, or even mildly so. Afterward refers to scenes from Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice as being as much canon as the book. Story is just who marries who (Mary marries clerk, Kitty marries clergyman as per JA), or doesn't marry who, and Lizzie producing a male heir. Meta: Lady Metcalf, lady novelist, outlines her next book and it's Jane Eyre. She resolves she must write it before someone else uses the story and does it better. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Tennant, Emma | Pemberley | London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993 | 1993 | Expansion | Sequel | Oh god. Tennant. As filled with "shocking" vulgarity and stupid misunderstandings as usual. Elizabeth struggles with being Mistress of Pemberley, is needled about producing an heir while everyone else breeds with abandon. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Tennant, Emma | An Unequal Marriage or Pride & Prejudice Twenty Years Later | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994 | 1994 | Expansion | Sequel | The way she writes, I have no idea wtf is happening, why people are doing whatever it is they're doing, or feeling whatever they're feeling. Elizabeth and Darcy are happily married until their 16 year old son Edward gets into gambling and whoring trouble. Numerous misunderstandings and failures to communicate lead to agonizingly stupid interior hysterics by Elizabeth until all is resolved by Darcy. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | White, Terence Hanbury | Darkness at Pemberley | London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 | 1932 | Dislocation | Genre shift | WTF? The first 95 pages are a murder non-mystery--the killer confesses, but there's no evidence so he goes free. Inspector Buller then visits his friend Sir Charles Darcy and sister Elizabeth at Pemberley. The rest is the killer, Mauleverer, terrifying the three of them and others at Pemberley by using the chimney system. Bizarre. Is he taking the piss or on the level? It felt like there was a missing context that would've made sense of it. Why Pemberley? | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride & Prejudice | Dawkins, Jane | More Letters From Pemberley, 1814-1819: A Further Continutation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice | Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, inc., 2003 | 2004 | Expansion | Crossover | Sequel | Utterly inconsequential trifle. Letters by Elizabeth to various friends and relatives. All she has to talk about are sisters' marriages, child births, and that sort of crap. Not nearly as effective an epistolary novel as Later Days because only one voice and that voice is boring. Impossible to understand why this Elizabeth would captivate Darcy or readers. | |
| Austen, Jane | Sanditon | Austen, Jane & Another Lady (Anne Telscombe nee Marie Dobbs?) | Sanditon | Boston: Houghton Mifllin, 1975 | 1975 | Unfinished MSS | The first 74 pages are Austen's unfinished mss, the other 250 or so are by Another Lady. Charlotte Heywood visits the Parkers in new seaside resort town, Sanditon, which Mr. Parker is promoting/investing in. Other characters include Lady Denham; her poor but beautiful niece, Clara Brereton; Sir Edward and Esther Denham; Mr. P's hypochondriac sisters and brother; heiress Miss Lambe. Sidney Parker, brother of Mr. P, is the hero. The last 100 or so pages when things actually happen, starting with the seashell collection, aren't bad. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Sanditon | Cobbett, Alice | Somehow Lengthened | London: Ernst Benn | 1932 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Sanditon | Lefroy, Anna Austen, edited by Mary Gaither Marshall | Jane Austen's Sandition | Chicago: Chiron Press, 1983 | 1983 | Unfinished MSS | Intro speculates whether Austen's neice Lefroy was trying to finish according to JA's wishes. Compares Lefroy's version to Dobbs and Cobbett. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Sense & Sensibility | Aiken, Joan | Eliza's Daughter | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994 | 1984 | Refocalization | Personalization | Sequel | A fun romp. Eliza (aka Liz, Lizzie, Alize), the red-headed, 6-fingered daughter of Eliza Williams and Willoughby is raised in a town where many noble bastards are dumped. She's provided for by Brandon but he never visits. She later lives with Mrs. Jebb in Bath, and briefly with Elinor and Edward. Finally goes to London... [spoiler] She sings in public, is taken on by the Duke of Cumbria as a companion of sorts--he had the same arrangement with her mother (who E was told died in childbirth but didn't). She also goes to Portugal to save old friends. Elinor writes secret novels but Edward disapproves so E finds a publisher. Unreliable narrator leaves things out (like we don't know she looked for a publisher until she produces the acceptance letter to Nell, daughter of Elinor).[/spoiler] Last line suggests this is a novel written by Eliza rather than memoir. Early on says some is real, some imagined. On rambles in Byblow Bottom encounters RPs Coleridge and Wordsworth (Mr. Sam and Mr. Bill). Very unflattering portrait of the Dashwood sisters. | |
| Austen, Jane | Sense & Sensibility | Barrett, Julia | The Third Sister: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility | NY: Donald I. Fine Books, 1996 | 1996 | Refocalization | Personalization | Sequel | Follows Margaret, the youngest Dashwood sister. Begins with a few meta paragraphs referring to Austen as the Muse and One who slighted the potential of Margaret. [spoiler] M strongly influenced by Marianne's betrayal by Willoughby, hesitant to accept courting by du Plessy (half French half English officer) or George Osborne. Becomes involved with Eliza Williams (Brandon ward) and her illegitimate son by Willoughby while living with older friend Lady Clara in Brighton. After accepting GO's proposal, GO revealed to be running fraudulent schemes, dP to rescuing French nobles. M ends up with dP.[/spoiler] | |
| Austen, Jane | Sense & Sensibility | Brown, Francis | Margaret Dashwood, Or: Interference | London: John Lane, 1929 | 1929 | Refocalization | Sequel | Author Edith Charlotte Hubback is JA great grandniece according to penciled notes in book. Set after Sense & Sensibility, story centers on the many beaus of Margaret: The clergyman favored by John Dashwood; Walter Carey, the son of a baronet; the love-at-first-sight naval officer, Cmdr Pennington. Elinor tries to discourage M from Pennington and toward Carey, Marianne favors Pennington. Willoughby turns up. Occasional nice turns of phrase but dull. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Sense & Sensibility | Gillespie, Jane | Brightsea | NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987 | 1987 | Refocalization | Sequel | Vain, vulgar, stupid Nancy Steele becomes a companion to heiress Louisa Retford. More Louisa's story as she's courted by bounder Mr. Forgan and good cleric Mr. Dwyer. Mildly amusing. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Sense & Sensibility | Tennant, Emma | Elinor & Marianne | London: Simon & Schuster, 1996 | 1996 | Expansion | Sequel | I wish I enjoyed Tennant's humor but it's just…Maybe I'm biased because her other stuff was so awful and unreadable. Epistolary novel, set in 1812. Rbt has lost the Ferrars family fortune. Who will get stuck with senile Mrs. Ferrars, will Edward ever get around to taking up his living in Delaford, will Marianne really run off to American with Willoughby and his vegan cult, has Willoughby also seduced Margaret, is Brandon cheating on Marianne...I don't really care. The most amusing part is that Rbt runs away to Africa (without Lucy) and is eaten by natives during the Night of the Long Pig. | ||
| Austen, Jane | Watsons | Brown, Edith Hubback & Francis | Watsons | London: Elkin Matthews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928 | 1928 | Unfinished MSS | Finished by JA's great grandniece in keeping with JA's wishes as relayed by Cassandra (J sister?). Emma Watson returns home after Aunt Turner marries. Saintly sister Elizabeth, mercenary Penelope, obnoxious Margaret, clueless older brother Robert with obnoxious wife Jane, Sam the good brother. Lady Osborne has designs on clergyman Mr. Howard, who Emma likes. Her son Lord Osborne likes Emma, etc. The usual concern over how much a year everyone has and who will marry who. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Watsons | Coates, John | Watsons | Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1973 (originally published 1958) | 1958 | Unfinished MSS | For some reason, Coates renames Emma Emily. The afterward describes similarities in the other two completions: [spoiler]Mr. W dies so Emma goes to Rbt & Jane, Lady Osborne wanting Howard, etc.. In this version, Emma/Emily m. Howard, Lord Osborne m. Penelope--who is not a mercenary shrew but clever and funny like Lizzie Bennet, Eliz m. Mr. Jones (OC) not Purvis, Margarey m. Musgrave. Mr. W lives but Capt. O'Brien dies, a fortune hunter, Aunt returns to England and Emma goes to live with her then they move to Stanton, Aunt settles $$ on all for marriages. Sam m. Mary. Lady O OK, Miss O not around much.[/spoiler] | |||
| Austen, Jane | Watsons | Hubback, Catherine Anne | The Younger Sister | London: T.C. Newby, 1985 | 1850 | |||||
| Austen, Jane | Watsons | Oulton, L. | Watsons | NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1923 | 1923 | Unfinished MSS | Also completed by a relative? Preface by J.E. Austen-Leigh although doesn't specify that s/he wrote it under name Oulton. Much the same as the other, except Lady O is a decent person and much more fleshed-out. [spoiler] Eliz still gets Purvis, but Margaret doesn't marry Musgrave. No Dr. Harding. Lord O marries Mrs. Blake after Emma rejects him. Same misunderstanding by H re Emma intentions, but no falling out scene.[/spoiler] The new parts have more depth and character than the 1928 version. | |||
| Austen, Jane | Watsons | Aiken, Joan | Emma Watson | New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996 | 1996 | Unfinished MSS | Another take on the adversities and triumphs of Emma Watson, her sisters (Elizabeth, Penelope, and Margaret) and brothers (Robert and Sam) with everyone making suitable matches and/or getting what they deserve. [spoiler] Emma was adopted by an aunt and returns to family 14 years later when aunt marries a charming Irish gambler. No tension except from the unpleasant Lady Osborne and near incest by her son and Mary Edwards, illegitimate daughter of her husband before marriage; Margaret elopes with a rotter named Thickstaffe who she leads everyone to believe Penelope is having an affair with; Thickstaffe ruins Penelope's husband through land speculation and nearly Sam. Tom Musgrave another neighbor kills friend Mrs. Blake and her son in drunken driving incident but is reformed. Emma falls for a one-armed naval officer. Aunt's experience with gambler taught her all about horses so sets up in horse breeding/training buisness with Musgrave and young Lord Osborne. [/spoiler] | |||
| Austen, Jane | Various | Fowler, Karen Joy | Jane Austen Book Club | NY: Viking, 2004 | 2004 | Personalization | Book club reads JA novels, and seems to relive their themes. |