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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Resources For Janeites

First of all, Gentle Reader, have you read all of Jane Austen’s novels? Alas, there are but few:

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

MansfieldPark(1814)

Emma (1814)

Northanger Abbey (1818)

Persuasion (1818)

Sanditon (unfinished)

Despair not, for even though Jane has died, her characters live on in the imaginations of other writers:

Mr. Darcy's Daughters

Elizabeth Aston

Picking up 20 years later, the novel introduces the daughters of Lizzie & Darcy: while Letitia frets and Alethea practices her music, twins Georgina and Belle flirt and frolic their way through parties and balls and Camilla -- levelheaded and independent -- discovers what joys and sorrows the city has to offer an intelligent young woman.

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: An Assembly Such as This

Pamela Aiden

The first book of the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, answers that intriguing question by taking the reader into Darcy's world, a world very different from Elizabeth Bennet's.

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife

Linda Berdoll

It begins the day after Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding and follows the couple through the ups and downs of married life.

Letters from Pemberley: The First Year: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Jane Dawkins

Elizabeth, now Mrs. Darcy finds herself in a very different league of wealth and privilege. Writing to her sister, Jane, she confides her uncertainty and anxieties, and describes the every-day of her new life. Her first year at Pemberley is sometimes bewildering but Lizzy's spirited sense of humor and satirical eye never desert her.

Pemberley

Emma Tenant
A year after her marriage to Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth frets over her failure to conceive a child.

An Unequal Marriage or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later

Emma Tenant

Elizabeth and Darcy, still blissful after 19 wedded years, have a winsome daughter, Miranda, and an unruly son, Edward, rumored to be wenching in London and dicing away his estates.

Presumption

Julia Barrett
With the marriage of Elizabeth Barrett to Darcy still a sore point in Darcy's social circle, matters are made even worse when Elizabeth's aunt is arrested for theft. Meanwhile, Georgiana Darcy, who has vowed never to love again, is pursued by the dashing Capt. Heywood and architect, Mr. Leigh-Cooper.

Lady Catherine's Necklace

Joan Aiken

Defeated, Lady Catherine de Bourgh retreats to her grand estate - RosingsPark. This enchanting sequel tells the story of what happens one balmy April day when a sudden blizzard disrupts the weather, causes a carriage accident, and affects the lives of all those involved in a most amazing way.

Eliza's Daughter

Joan Aiken
In Sense & Sensibility, Colonel Brandon rescues the daughter of his childhood sweetheart after she has been seduced and abandoned by Mr. Willoughby. Eliza dies in childbirth and her daughter, Liz, grows into a young woman as impetuous and spirited as the Dashwood sisters.

Jane Fairfax

Emma Watson

Jane Fairfax, who became Emma's friend, but threatened to stand in her light, is brought to life as a charming and complex woman, and not just Emma's rival.

A Visit to Highbury

Joan Austen-Leigh
The great-great-grandniece of Jane Austen paints a picture of Emma's village of Highbury and its inhabitants as seen through the eyes of Mrs. Goddard, the mistress of the local school attended by Emma's protégé, Harriet Smith.

The Youngest Miss Ward

Joan Aiken
Twelve-year-oldHatty Ward, sister of Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris of MansfieldPark, is treated with contempt by all but her dying mother. Sent to live at her uncle's estate in Portsmouth, she must try to fit in with her cousins.

Inspired by Jane:

Jane Austen in Boca

Paula Cohen

Eligible men are scarce in Boca Raton, Florida. When good-hearted meddler Carol Newman learns that the wealthy and personable Norman Grafstein has lost his wife, she resolves to marry him off to her lonely mother-in-law, May. Even May's sharp-tongued friend Flo approves of Norman--although Norman's best friend Stan, a cynical professor, keeps getting under Flo's skin.

Jane and the Genius of Place
Jane and the Man of Cloth
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House
Jane and the Stillroom Maid
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor
Jane and the Wandering Eye

Stephanie Barron

A series of mysteries in which Jane Austen is the detective and heroine.

Bridget Jones’ Diary

Helen Fielding
A funny daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent quest for self-improvement—will she end up with the rakish Daniel or the aptly named Mark Darcy?

The Jane Austen Book Club

Karen Joy Fowler

In a modern setting, a diverse group of people gather to discuss Austen’s novels. The lives of the group members mirror the characters in the books.

Jane at the Movies

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Laurence Olivier & Greer Garson

Clueless (1995)

Based on Emma

Pride and Prejudice miniseries (1995)

Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet,

Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant

Emma (1996) Gwyneth Paltrow

Emma (1996) Kate Beckinsale

Bride and Prejudice (2004)

Bollywood-style musical

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Keira Knightly, Matthew MacFayden, Judi Dench

Jane on the Web

(All of her novels are available free online)

The Jane Austen Society of North America—join the official group of Janeites.

“a whole websiteful of fellow Jane Austen Fanatics”

Jane Austen’s home online.

The Jane Austen Centre at Bath.

This site provides a good starting point for people interested in Jane Austen.

Nonfiction about Jane Austen and her Times

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

Daniel Poole

The Friendly Jane Austen

Natalie Tyler

The World of Jane Austen

NigelNicolson

Jane Austen’s World: The Life and Times of England’s Most Popular Author

Maggie Lane

Jane Austen’s Letters

Edited by Deirdre Le Faye

Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections

James Edward Austen-Leigh

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”