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.

I love Austen and I thoroughly recommend the memoirs of Harriette Wilson. Whilst they are not fiction in the strictest sense in many ways they are (because she let people buy themselves out of the book). They are full of the witty regency humour that I love about Jane Austen. And Wilson's sister was essentially a real-life Lydia Bennett.

Has anyone said Trollope?

There's always someone who lowers the tone.

It is expected of the heroine of a tragedy that at the hour of loss she will put by her daily tasks and engage all her spirits in weeping, mowing and the flowering of ill health. Margaret Bertram, at sixteen old enough to weep in earnest at the loss of her mother, nonetheless did not bid farewell to her health and youth, and many in the village of Thornton Lacey found it strange that she was seen once to smile again within a twelvemonth. But even a tragic heroine will find that, at seventeen, there is happiness at home with a fond father and two younger sisters, and when the constant requirements of a country living leave little time for reflection and the cultivation of tears.
'For you know, Mr Chilton, that poor Fanny Bertram was more sorry to leave Margaret than she was to bid farewell to her husband,' said Mrs Chilton on the occasion of their second dinner that month. 'Poor Fanny was not much prized in the parish but I am sure she was above rubies at home'.

Read "Helen" by Maria Edgeworth.
Read JA's juvenilia.
Then start reading the books that JA read, such as Pamela by Samuel Richardson.
Try Fanny Burney.
Find a copy of "Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen" by Fay Weldon.

Mary Hays is interesting. She wrote some quite strongly feminist novels in the 1790s. Another slightly obscure writer from the same period is Charlotte Smith.

I also fully endorse the recommendations of Fanny Burney - Cecilia is my favourite novel that she wrote. She was a strong influence on Jane Austen. She uses the phrase "pride and prejudice" in Cecilia and there is a school of thought that it inspired JA's title!

www.goodreads.com/series/113943-the-austen-project

^pp has already mentioned Eligible (Curtis Sittenfeld) but there are five more including Northanger Abbey Val McDermid

Also, what's wrong with Tess?

I hate it. Hardy's just so bloody miserable the more he goes on. Far FTMC, I loved. Jude the Obscure, FFS, could barely read it.

Mind you, I was reading at the end of Tess when they go to watch the black flag run up the prison, and my dad said his school used to invite them in early to do the same in the 1950s! They sat on the hill and watched Winchester Prison run the flag to show someone had just been hanged. Yikes.

Try Joan Aiken's sequels - they vary but are clever, particularly Jane Fairfax - Emma from Jane's point of view!www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Fairfax-Joan-Aiken/dp/0312058845/ref=pd_cp_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=7C10RHGSC5N6B88PX2Y2

I've just read Death Comes To Pemberley and wasn't impressed. Darcy and Lizzie do absolutely sod-all apart from provide the house in which (some) of the action takes place. It's well-written, but tedious.

I was going to suggest Butterpuff's solution, which is to look at Austen fanfic (or write your own). Type "Archive of our own" into google, search for the characters you want to read about, and there you go! (You don't have to make an account to read most of them, or give feedback.) The quality is ...variable, shall we say, but amongst all the clunkers there are some genuinely very good writers.

Another vote for Claire Tomalin's bio. It's very good, almost as satisfying as the novels themselves. I cried at the end ! If only she had lived longer. Ideally about 200 years longer

If you're a pride and prejudice fan the Pemberley Variations by Abigail Reynolds are very readable and one of my guilty pleasures.

For those suggesting Angela Thirkell, I would also suggest Dorothy Whipple. She is absolutely brilliant!! I have read all hers and am as desperate as the OP that I haven't anything new by her to read!

I've read several fanfics, some considerably better than others. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was one of the more entertaining ones.

Elizabeth Aston wrote a number of stories using some of the characters from P&P, and also following the lives of Darcy and Elizabeth's daughters as they become young people themselves. Not too bad. I found them in the library, I don't think I'd have bothered if I'd had to actually buy them.

Death Comes to Pemberley was a great shame. PD James allowed her sentiment to rule her head with that one. I'm glad I only paid 50p for it in a charity shop.

I enjoyed Longbourn, it has joined the ranks of books that have kept me awake until dawn .

Anyone other than me found Jude Morgan yet? An Accomplish't Woman and A Little Folly are both excellent.

I loathe Wuthering Heights and everything else by a Bronte. All misery and ridiculously over-egged drama.

Love JA and Elizabeth Gaskell. 'Vanity Fair' is a great read- the spirited Becky Sharpe- but 'Middlemarch' is hard work.

Hardy's novels are dreadful. His love poetry written after the death of his first wife is beautiful.

Winifred Holtby's 'South Riding' is a gritty good read.

Barbara Pym is sublime, absolutely sublime.

Some great recommendations on this thread. I've just started Longbourne. I actually enjoyed Death comes to Pemberly

carry on annandale…. I was really getting in to that.