To ask you to write me a bit more Jane Austen as I have read them all

[MissTriggs]

I am sad I have run out. And becauseJA would be here if she lived now.

Thank you

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2 propriety

Thank you again. I hope you are quite well.

Haha WellErrr, you're so right. And it's SO LONG. I actually read Shamela first which sort of helped because I could laugh at the ridiculousness of pervy old Samuel rubbing his thighs energetically over "virtue" for eleventy billion pages.

Mitzy

Ever read any Fanfiction? I know it can be utter tripe but I read a ton when I was a teenager after finding I had read everything Jane Austen wrote. I stumbled on the Derbyshire Writers Guild and have a real soft spot for a story by Esther called The Life and Opinions of Gilroy Hurst, Gentleman. Ok so it's not Austen, but it does make me chuckle.

Id rather chuckle than give any more time to Tess D, Jane E, or even Margaret H.

Read this and you will want to read them all again to enjoy all the things you never noticed before.

You might want to try some of Mrs Radcliffe's works, referred to in NA quite a bit though I prefer the earlier 18century comic novels of writers like Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy being one of my all time favourites.

Also Moll Flanders!

Angela Thirkell, great idea. I recently discovered her, just glorious books, but don't expect anything much to happen in any of them, that is not the point. Her female characters are fantastic, generally the male characters are fairly two dimensional. They are funny too.

I've never heard of Angela Thirkell but she sounds right up my street.

Love EF Benson.

The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a good read.

I'm going to second Barchester chronicles! Finished reading them (again) last year and am currently reading all of JA, the big six and other bits she wrote as well.

I felt like crying after I'd read all the Mrs Gaskell novels. They were SO good.

I second Fanny Hill. Theres nothing like a bit of 18th century porn.

And Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Mr Bennet gravely put down his omnibus edition of 'Buxom ladies', which he had cunningly concealed in a staid leather cover, and frotted vigorously. Hill, happening upon this point to enter the room, gave a little scream and fainted dead away.

Mr Bennet paused briefly, then continued with increased vigour.

I would read that.

Mrs Bennet shrugged off her whalebone corset and heaved a sigh. Twelve thorns lay exposed, having been carefully inserted into the lining of her corset by Sarah that morning. Mrs Bennet idly inspected the damage caused by the thorns, pausing to wipe the blood off her fingers and onto the now irrevocably-stained corset.

She did wonder at Sarah's more esoteric requests sometimes, but Lord knew that the girl derived an unusual degree of pleasure from the vigorous scrubbing that such articles of laundry required. "Simple, sweet child" thought Mrs Bennet happily, as she donned her shift and waited for Rogers the stable boy to arrive.

I've recently purchased Longbourn by Jo Baker and Thornfield Hall by Jane Stubbs. They both look very promising. They're the stories of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre from the perspective of the servants.

I LOVED Moll Flanders. It's most definitely due a re-read soon!

Death Comes to Pemberley, and Longbourn?

Eligible by Curtis sittenfield has recently been published - modern updating of p&p - think different authors at the same publishing house have done one Austen book each. Went in with low expectations as it has been transposed to (gasp) America, but it was actually pretty funny and very easy to whiz through. Would recommend for beach reading on hols!

Also 50 shades of pemberley is stupidly funny if you're in the mood for silliness!

Another vote for Anthony Trollope here. Avoid "Can you forgive her" though!

'Pamela' is crazy.
'Evelina' is good (but too long).
Read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' - hilarious.
'Bitch in a Bonnet' well worth a read.

Longbourn = crap imvho.

I read a 'what happened next after P&P' years ago. It's was rivetingly awful, full of horrendous euphemisms such as his torch of love and her womanly portal.

If you have finished all of JA's proper books then I recommend:

• her unfinished stuff
• Juvenilia and stories
• Letters
• biographies

Hang on while I go and look at the bookshelf!

And watch Clueless!