If You Like Jane Austen, try these!

• Aiken, Joan.
  Eliza's Daughter.
  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, a charming and incorrigible tomboy, grows into a young woman as impetuous and spirited as the Dashwood sisters.
  Emma Watson.
  Jane Fairfax.
  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.
  Lady Catherine's Necklace.
  The Youngest Miss Ward.
  Twelve-year-old Hatty Ward, sister of Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris, 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.
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• Austen, Jane.
  The Watsons.
  Jane Austen's Fragment Continued and Completed by John Coates.
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• Austen-Leigh, Joan.
  A Visit to Highbury.
  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.
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• Barrett, Julia.
  Presumption.
  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.
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• Barron, Stephanie.
  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.
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• Cohen, Paula Marantz.
  Jane Austen in Boca.
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• Gillespie, Jane.
  Ladysmead.
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• Nathan, Melissa.
  Pride, Prejudice, and Jasmin Field.
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• Tennant, Emma.
  Pemberley.
  A year after her marriage to Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth frets over her failure to conceive a child.
  An Unequal Marriage.
  Twenty years later.
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• White, Terrence Hanbury.
  Darkness at Pemberley.
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• Wilson, Barbara Ker.
  Antipodes Jane.
  A Novel of Jane Austen in Australia.
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  SOUND RECORDINGS
  
  
• Emma.
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• Northanger Abbey.
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• Persuasion.
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• Pride and Prejudice.
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• Sense and Sensibility.
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• Jane Austen: A Life.
  Honan, Park.
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  VIDEO RECORDINGS
  
  
• Emma.
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• Jane Austen's Persuasion.
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• Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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• Mansfield Park.
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• Pride and Prejudice.
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• Sense and Sensibility.
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• Jane Austen: Novelist, 1775-1817.
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  Miscellaneous nonfiction books of interest:
  
  
• Bloom, Harold.
  Genius.
  153.9 BL
  
  
• Wolfe, Linda.
  The Literary Gourmet.
  641.59 WO
  
  
• Hickman, Peggy.
  A Jane Austen Household Book.
  641.5942 HI
  
  
• Cowan, Louise.
  Invitation to the Classics.
  809 IN
  
  
• Sutherland, John.
  Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction.
  809.3 SU
  
  
• Nagan, Greg.
  The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics.
  818.5407 NA
  
  
• Furman, Laura.
  Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate.
  820.8 BO
  
  
• Pool, Daniel.
  What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England.
  820.9008 PO
  
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