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

Bonus for use of:
1 impertinent
2 propriety

Thank you again. I hope you are quite well.

I read an article, in the guardian I think, but maybe not, about a film that is being made of the unpublished book she wrote, Lady Susan. It is called Love and Friendship, and the screenwriter has said that he has polished the unfinished text, using some of JA's letters, and will be publishing a book of the same name. He is a huge Austen fan, so hopefully will get the tone right. So a new, almost Jane Austen book should be out soon.

Claire Tomalin and Carol Shields both wrote good bios.

Then of course there is also her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh's "A Memoir of JA"

Enjoyable but certainly a skewed view!

This isn't particularly ground-breaking, but worth a read.

Agree that 'A Life in Small Things' is interesting.

I read a brilliant but quite academic book about her language, which I really enjoyed. Can check the title if anybody is interested.

Looked it up, it's out later this month. Fingers crossed it's not rubbish. The reviews of the film are good.

There's some brilliant non fiction called something like 'problems in Jane Austen' and it's all literary puzzles and inconsistencies. Will try to find.

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/IsHeathclifffamurderer.html?id=DSxaAAAAMAAJ

And watch Clueless!

Or even better, "Lost in Austen."

From IMDB

Amanda Price is dissatisfied with her life in modern London. Her favorite escape is getting lost in the pages of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One night, Amanda is startled to come face to face with the novel's protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet. A small door in her apartment mysteriously links their worlds. Eventually, Amanda becomes trapped on the other side, while Elizabeth remains in the modern world. Now as the events of her favorite book unfold in all the wrong ways, Amanda tries desperately to set things straight, but inevitably makes things worse.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1117666/

Another vote for Evelina - makes Austen look like s plagiarist!

NOTHING is better than Clueless (except The Breakfast Club, but sadly no Jane references in that).

I recommend Vanity Fair , and Middlemarch - both fantasic

Clarissa is also' interesting' but v.. v long (and you will get really annoyed with her)

Also ,the Mapp and Lucia series are good ( very funny.. in a snobby 20s way).

Mary Brunton is a contemporary of Austen - I read Self Control many years ago and enjoyed it.

What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan is brilliant - he 'solves' 20 important puzzles in the novels such as:
What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage?
What do the characters call each other, and why? (Absolutely fascinating!)
And which important Austen characters never speak?

I absolutely loved it (and was lucky enough to be taught by him at university, although he wouldn't let me do Austen!)

Ooh,I'm going for Gaskell
Haven't tried her since I was a lass

Did someone really write 'Bitch in a Bonnet' on aJA thread. The indelicacy!

By the way I think JA on mumsnet would not talk about sex

"AIBU to prefer the country to the town" - more that sort of thing I think

IfI tried to start a letter to Casandra on a Newthread would that be wrong?

What about Thomas Hardy?

Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Far from the Madding Crowd , The Mayor of Casterbridge, and The Return of the Native are my favourites..

Jude the Obscure is just heartbreaking

WellErr so right about Pamela.

I really tried, because my sister said I would like it, and she is nearly always right.
I got less than half way and gave up.

I love Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters, Cranford are both rural. North and South and Mary Barton (the best IMO) set in Manchester. Incredible stuff.

Must admit, I love a watch of Bride and Prejudice too.

I prefer John Sutherland and Deirdre LeFaye's So You Think You Know JA? to John Mullan's book. It's a series of questions ranked from easy and factual to more abtruse, with answers.

And if you like apparent trivia that makes you reconsider the novels, Maggie Gee's JA and Food is very good on details about food and meals that JA's contemporaries would have understood but which we may need pointing out - like what's the significance of the Bennets being at breakfast when they get the note from Netherfield to say Jane is ill, and Lizzie has time to finish eating, put on her outdoor clothes and walk three miles cross country and still gets to Netherfield in time to see Bingley and his guests sitting down to breakfast...

The simple answer is sadly, no, there is no life after Jane Austen but only substitutes to console you until sufficient time has elapsed to read them all again. I would second (or third or fourth) John Mullan's book. I also love Georgette Heyer. But there is only one Jane Austen and why she had to spend time on Mansfield Park is beyond me ... just think what she could have been writing in the meantime!

Try Edith Wharton. I would recommend The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. Detailed, wry insight into American upper classes.

Clare Darcy is wordy but not bad as a Heyer substitute.

I keep thinking of Viz Profanisaurus:

"Oh, My Darcy," said Elizabeth, "I beg you will not think me impertinent nor lost too all propriety if I ask you to bend me over and take me up the...." etc etc etc

The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence are both wonderful but the end of The House of Mirth is heartbreaking. Be warned!

Pray pardon my impertinence, as I mark my place here.

Has anyone said Trollope?

Also, what's wrong with Tess?