If You Like Jane Austen...
The popularity of Jane Austen's works has inspired authors to write sequels, prequels and companion novels to her works. In addition, the author herself appears as a character in several novels. Continue your Austen fascination with these fun titles.
Sequels & Prequels
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Emma Austen perceptively and comically reveals to the reader the life of the English countryside, with its social nuances and mischievousness. At the center of this world is her inimitable character, Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions. |
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Jane Fairfax Presents the story of Jane Fairfax, Emma's rival as well as a complex young woman with desires and an emotional life of her own. |
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Mansfield Park A poor relation adopted into a wealthy family, Fanny Price has only her good nature as a weapon in the battle to win the heart of the man she loves. In "Mansfield Park," a sequel of sorts to Pride and Prejudice, Austen at once challenges and embraces the mores of the day as only she can. |
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Mansfield Revisited A sequel to Mansfield Park centering on the blossoming love story between Susan Price and Tom Bertram. |
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The Youngest Miss Ward A charming companion book to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, written by one of her most sparkling successors. After the death of her mother, Hattie, the most accomplished and kindest of the Ward sisters, finds herself back in the life of the haughty Lady Ursula. |
Ladysmead Sophie has no hopes of marriage until she meets a young clergyman in this novel based on Mansfield Park. |
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Version and Diversion Mansfield Park as told from the servants point of view. Jane is maid to second daughter Julia. When she is dismissed because she attracts the men Julia and her sister are pursuing, she journeys to London where she eventually launches a successful acting career. |
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Pride and Prejudice A headstrong young woman and her aristocratic suitor must overcome their respective impediments to a happy ending--his pride must be humbled and her prejudice dissolved. |
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Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel |
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Darcy's Story |
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Desire and Duty: a Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Set in the years 1805-1815, Desire and Duty tells the romantic adventures of Mr. Darcy's beautiful, shy, devout younger sister, Georgiana. |
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Pride and Prescience, or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, the joyous newlyweds from Pride and Prejudice, have not even left for their honeymoon when they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving one of their wedding guests. The Darcy’s take center stage as the Regency era's answer to the Thin Man's Nick and Nora, in search of the truth, universally acknowledged and otherwise. Don’t miss the rest of this series! |
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Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues |
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Jane Austen in Boca Jane Austen centered her novels on the lives of three or four families in a country village. So does Cohen, in this parody of Pride and Prejudice, except that her village is Boca Raton, Florida, and the characters are retired Jewish widows and widowers in this romantic comedy of manners. |
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Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice |
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Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field It starts as a lark for Jasmin Field, the charming, acerbically witty columnist for a national women's magazine. She joins a host of celebrities gathering in London to audition for the season's most dazzling charity event: a one-night only stage production of Jane Austen's immortal Pride and Prejudice. Fresh, wild, wonderfully romantic and absolutely hilarious, Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field is Jane Austen as the great lady herself never imagined it. |
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Pemberley: a Sequel to Pride and Prejudice With wit and style and genuine insight into character, Pemberley brilliantly delineates the perils and pleasures of a marriage between two people as strong-willed and prickly as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. |
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Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. |
Eliza's Daughter In the sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Eliza's daughter, Liz, grows up as a charming, well-educated, irrepressible hoyden in the town of Byblow Bottom, until she is brought back to the Dashwood sisters' home. |
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The Third Sister: a Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility In a sequel to Jane Austen's classic Sense and Sensibility, Margaret, the third Dashwood sister, struggles to equal her two older sisters in accomplishment. |
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The Watsons Austen's unfinished seventh novel. |
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Emma Watson: the Watsons Completed In a novel that is based on The Watsons, an unfinished Jane Austen novel, Emma Watson, who tends her father's household along with her sister Elizabeth, finds herself caught up in an adventure as two men compete for her attention. |
Featuring Jane Austen Herself…
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor Visiting the estate of her friend Isobel, the newly married Countess of Scargrave, Jane Austen is drawn into a mystery when Isobel's husband dies suspiciously and the bereaved young bride is implicated in the murder. Don’t miss the rest of this series! |
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Jane Austen Book Club Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. In this newest work, six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. |
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Austenland In 32-year-old singleton Jane Hayes's mind, no man in the world can measure up to Fitzwilliam Darcy. Jane is forced to confront her Austen obsession when her wealthy great-aunt Carolyn dies and leaves her an all-expenses-paid vacation to Pembrook Park, a British resort where guests live like the characters in Jane's beloved Austen novels. Jane sees the trip as an opportunity for one last indulgence of her obsession before she puts it all behind her. |
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The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen Set in the time period in which Jane Austen was revising Sense and Sensibility, Jane introduces us to Frederick Ashford, a charming gentleman she meets one day at Lyme. They instantly form an attachment, but nothing comes of it until one day two years later, when they encounter one another quite unexpectedly. Syrie James acquaints the reader with many real and imagined characters, who may or may not have served as inspiration for characters in her novels. |
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Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austen's Life |
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The Man Who Loved Jane Austen What if you found a 200-year-old love letter written from a fictional character to the writer who created him? And what if, next to that letter, was another addressed to this character . . . from the author herself? Truth may be stranger than fiction, but one woman is about to find out what happens when fiction becomes truth. |
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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Funny, clever story about Courtney Stone, a woman with only her Jane Austen novels to keep her company as she wallows over a broken engagement--until she wakes up in the nineteenth century in the body of Jane Mansfield, an English woman looking for a husband. |
