Okay, I’m in!!-I had planned to participate in Jane Austen July in a modest way by reading one novel, and now I’m very excitedly adding at least seven books to my TBR. Thanks for these stupendous suggestions, Katie. 😊❤🎉 Can’t wait!
Ooooh, I love your "Let's talk about . . . ." videos! I got a book from a thrift store of a modern retelling of P&P; something like, "Personally, I'd Rather Lick Sand." It had some LOL moments. I'll have to find it. Jane Austen to me is so much more than just a romance novel. She is such a keen observer of human behaviour and folly. Looking forward to July!
I would really enjoy a video in which you read out some of those short stories! Also, I'm curious to see whether your opinion on Northanger Abbey changes on this reread. So many fun recommendations here, the Sophie Irwin and Lex Croucher ones sound really fun. I think that's what I'm after this year, something quite light-hearted. But also The Jane Austen Project sounds right up my street. You should finish Rational Creatures - the second series is really good. It was a bit weird that they took such a long break between series 1 and 2, I'm sure I watched the first series a few years ago when it was new, but I recently watched the whole thing through earlier this year and enjoyed it. Looking forward to this JAJ and seeing your videos about these books, in particular the Sense and Sensibility one. I'm currently rereading it, and like you I'm enjoying it a lot more than I did last time, but I very much see it as a love story (or two) and so I'm intrigued by your take on this.
I'm excited to see the second series of Rational Creatures. I guess the pandemic must have disrupted their plans. I am excited for this love story video, I need to start planning . . .
My favorite retelling is “For Darkness shows the Stars” by Diana Peterfreund which is a futuristic retelling of Persuasion. I can’t wait to join in with the readathon this year! I have some fun videos planned.
For the Juvenalia listed in the read-a-long list, all of them are found in the Oxford World’s Classics volume called “Teenage Writings”. I checked against the table of contents and it covers all of them.
I’m about to order evelina but have sooo many retellings plannee. Now just got to find a new non fiction book for the Readathon 🎉🎉🎉 Sooo excited I love this Readathon
Yey, finally! I’ve been searching for “Jane Austen July” multiple times a day in these last three days, impatiently waiting for this announcement. I participated for the first time last year and absolutely loved it, so I’m really looking forward to this year’s Jane Austen July 🥳
I am looking forward to my first Jane Austen July! Thanks for all the great recommendations -- sci-fi Jane Austen, excellent! May I also recommend the section on Jane Austen in Annette Rubinstein's two-volume The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw. She is wonderful, insightful literary critic who brings a Marxist lens to bear -- meaning that she examines writers in the context of changing times. Very accessible, not dry!
Really looking forward to Jane Austen July. So glad Northanger Abbey is included. Thanks for all the recommendations, I intend to do each challenge so I need to get myself sorted!!
Patty-I very much enjoyed teaching game you and a few other you tubers played. Claudia read out an action, and you and 3 other tubers would recreate the suggestion. I really loved your version of Jane Austen's hat. It was perfect.
I’m very excited about the Northanger Abbey read along, because I love it so much - but also because I’m half way through The Mysteries of Udolpho right now and I keep thinking about the characters in NA.
Thank you so much for doing the Jane Austen July Readathon again! I’m very excited to join in! Ive lost count how many years Ive participated but its always a joy! I always pick up on little bits I missed when I reread her books. I will join the group reads, and most likely listen to Northanger Abbey as an audiobook (I have the book too). I especially like discovering other books and authors from her time period. And the retellings are so enjoyable too.. I cant wait to see your videos about Jane Austen and will be following along in Goodreads too.
Yay Jane Austen July! It will be my third year joining in and I hope to read my final one of the big six: Sense and Sensibility. I’m also planning to try The Murder of Mr Wickham. 😊📚
Very excited for Jane Austen July! I’m really looking forward to reading Emma, as I’ve not read that one in a while. And very happy the juvenilia is a group read; they are really fun. I didn’t know the second season of Rational Creatures was out! Will definitely be watching that, and also hopefully Fire Island to watch. 😊
Yay so so excited for Jane Austen July 😊 I don't read very fast and I only like reading one book at a time so I will not participate in a lot of the challenges. But I will definitely re-read a JA novel (for like the millionth time), and do the watching challenges. And maybe read a contemporary of. Excited for our discussions on GoodReads too
This makes me smile. And I am back round to rereading Pride and Prejudice this year so everything is rosy. You have reminded me I have only dipped into The Genius of Jane Austen although I did swear this was the year I'd get to the Tomalin biography.
Yay! Jane Austen July is always a highlight of my reading year. I will definitely be reading along with the short stories/juvenalia. If anyone is wondering I just checked and the Penguin Clothbound Classic of Love and Friendship contains all of the stories listed.
I was thinking about how we're already halfway through June and how wild that is and then I thought, wait a minute, that means July is coming, which means JANE AUSTEN JULY IS COMING!!! Then I got really excited and went in search of your announcement video, lol. I immediately started building my TBR. I'm very excited for the readalongs, especially the Juvenilia since I haven't read any of it, I don't think. I've placed an order for The Genius of Jane Austen, which I'm very excited about, and Godmersham Park and Miss Austen, which I might not get to both in July, but I've been meaning to get copies of both for ages. I really want to read Unequal Affections but it seems to be out of print? Everywhere I look, there are only a few copies and available for exorbitant prices! Fortunately, it seems to be free for Audible members, so I think I can access it that way, but I'm sad not to have a print copy to mark up. 🤷♀
Marvelous! Celebrate the great & wonderful Jane Austen! I've a few things to read for 1st time, the juvenilia, Lady Susan, more letters, to finish Mullen, oh etc! Very excited. Looking forward to all your lots of 😉 videos. Much i want to read-- may have to start early, ha!
I’d love a video on the Crawfords. They are more complex than they’re given credit for, I think. I’m looking forward to seeing you talk about Willoughby! Maybe you’ll feel like doing one on Colonel Brandon or Mrs. Jennings one day as well!
I'm reading Pride and Prejudice for my Jane Austen book club so that's one. I don't know how many times I've read it. I've listened to it many times but read it once. I just read the Mullen book just a few weeks ago. It is good. He spoke at our JA society meeting by zoom. He was great. I've read Miss Austen. I want to read the other one. I'm doing a deep dive into Maria Edgeworth and have read about four of her books one after the other. I am on Ormond now. I can't put it down. I count all of these books as part of this Jane Austen July project. I cannot read all these books in a month. I'll do well to read P and P. I have Jane at Home so I may read that one. Thanks for all your suggestions. There are some good ones in there. I'll add them to my list.
I can recommend an historical mystery series that takes place in the Regency period written by C. S. Harris. There are 18 books in the series and Jane Austen is in the 10th one! They are well researched.
I have a non fiction which is Jane Austen the Secret Radical. I may read the chapter about Northanger Abbey then reread Northanger Abbey for this readathon 😊 A good book set in the time of Jane Austen writing is Dangerous Alliance, it focuses on a MC that loves Jane Austens books and tries to be like the MCs from her books but also has to deal with some scandle
Yes, The Secret Radical has some out there opinions XD I got very cross when I read it a few years ago, but also had fun disagreeing with it if that makes sense.
Just finished "Martin Chuzzlewit" and have enough time to read "Northanger Abbey". From NA there is the Seven Horrid gothic novels list ( chapter 6): The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story by Eliza Parsons (1793) Clermont by Regina Maria Roche (1798) The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale by Eliza Parsons (1796) The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest by Karl Friedrich Kahlert (1794) The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom (1798) The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath (1798) The Horrid Mysteries: A Story From the German Of The Marquis Of Grosse by Carl Grosse (1796). Also mentioned a page later in chapter six is "Sir Charles Grandison" by Samuel Richardson. This is one of the longest epistolary novels, of which I'm about halfway through.
I'm so excited for Jane Austen July again! I would love Mary Crawford or just the Crawford siblings getting a let's talk about video! I've already been kinda putting my tbr together in my head.
I have . . . I didn't love it, to be honest. It was maybe ten years ago that I read it, but I didn't really get on with it! I didn't think it was terrible but a bit middling.
Very, very happy to see this announcement video as always! Excited to read Northanger Abbey with the group - I really enjoyed it and it’s been a couple of years since I read it. I may also dive into the Juvenalia. I am also planning to re-read Sense and Sensibility this year. I would love to hear your thoughts on whether JA books are romances - I see Northanger Abbey more as a coming of age novel, which does invariably result in having an element of romance because usually first love plays a part but that is in addition not the focus. Excited for all of this. Time to get planning! 👏🎉
Yay! This will be my third year participating of Jane Austen July and I've been warming up for the last couple of weeks, watching all your Jane Austen July playlists from previous years 😅. I plan to reread Emma, Longbourn and What Matters in Jane Austen, to finish Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England which I started last year and to read the stories collected as "The Beautiful Cassandra" in that Little Black Classics edition. I also ordered A Woman of Color, it should be here by the end of June. And I have some favourite films to watch for both watching challenges as well. This is so exciting! I'd love to see more cooking videos if you're willing to try another recipe 😃
Yep, I'm there. I love Jane Austen, thanks for the heads up about the free eBook of her Juvenilia, I found one for free, (I am on a book ban this month, went a little book buying mad last month.) Also, thanks for reminding me about Jane Austen at Home, I have that book and forgot about it. I am looking forward to Jane Austen July it is my first one. Thank you😊
Good afternoon from a cold South Africa. Wonderful! I am looking forward to Jane Austen July. Could you perhaps discuss the character of Isabella Thorpe from Northanger Abbey? I will be reading the Penguin Clothboud of Love and Friendship. English is my second language and the classics are my favourite genre. Your channel is excellent.
Think I am gonna head to Emma as it’s high time I re-read that one❤ Or maybe Sense & Sensibility hmmmm I don’t know 😂😂 I will see how I feel nearer the time ❤
Hello there! Thank you very much for the recommendations. I also think Paula Byrne's take on the author is very new, competent, and readable. I would like to recommend another if I may. It is Jane Austen the secret radical by Helena Kelly. It is everything a book about the author should be. Can not recommend it highly enough! After reading it I felt the need to re-read all Austen's novels with this book by my side!
So, I read The Secret Radical years ago, just after it came out, and I really enjoyed reading it but disagreed with a lot of what Helena Kelly was saying. I feel like I would probably have a slightly different take on it now though, so maybe I need to reread it sometime!
I can really recommend In These Times by Jenny Uglow and Britain Against Napoleon by Roger Knight. The first is about life in Britain due the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the second looks at the political side of things of that time.
I have watched most of Metropolitan and didn’t care for it. I can’t remember thinking it was a retelling of Mansfield Park. Maybe I will give it a rewatch.
I'm in Bath and I think it's the perfect spot to kick off Jane Austen July!! Thanks for all the recommendations!
Jane Austen July is coming! Yay!!
Okay, I’m in!!-I had planned to participate in Jane Austen July in a modest way by reading one novel, and now I’m very excitedly adding at least seven books to my TBR. Thanks for these stupendous suggestions, Katie. 😊❤🎉 Can’t wait!
Haha that is how readathons usually go, isn't it?
Ooooh, I love your "Let's talk about . . . ." videos! I got a book from a thrift store of a modern retelling of P&P; something like, "Personally, I'd Rather Lick Sand." It had some LOL moments. I'll have to find it. Jane Austen to me is so much more than just a romance novel. She is such a keen observer of human behaviour and folly. Looking forward to July!
I would really enjoy a video in which you read out some of those short stories! Also, I'm curious to see whether your opinion on Northanger Abbey changes on this reread.
So many fun recommendations here, the Sophie Irwin and Lex Croucher ones sound really fun. I think that's what I'm after this year, something quite light-hearted. But also The Jane Austen Project sounds right up my street.
You should finish Rational Creatures - the second series is really good. It was a bit weird that they took such a long break between series 1 and 2, I'm sure I watched the first series a few years ago when it was new, but I recently watched the whole thing through earlier this year and enjoyed it.
Looking forward to this JAJ and seeing your videos about these books, in particular the Sense and Sensibility one. I'm currently rereading it, and like you I'm enjoying it a lot more than I did last time, but I very much see it as a love story (or two) and so I'm intrigued by your take on this.
I'm excited to see the second series of Rational Creatures. I guess the pandemic must have disrupted their plans. I am excited for this love story video, I need to start planning . . .
So I didn't know this existed and now I can't wait till July. I'm definitely participating!
Well I am so excited! I happen to love Northanger Abbey, so happiness all around!
Bride and Prejudice is a very fun Bollywood movie. 🙂
I am looking forward to July! I also really enjoyed The Genius of Jane Austen last year.
I would love you reading out the juvenilia. I really love Northanger Abbey and I'm excited to read it on audio.
BBC Radio 4 have a great adaptation of Northanger Abbey. It is hilarious.
My favorite retelling is “For Darkness shows the Stars” by Diana Peterfreund which is a futuristic retelling of Persuasion. I can’t wait to join in with the readathon this year! I have some fun videos planned.
That'll be why For Darkness shows the Stars is on my vague ongoing Jane Austen July TBR :)
For the Juvenalia listed in the read-a-long list, all of them are found in the Oxford World’s Classics volume called “Teenage Writings”. I checked against the table of contents and it covers all of them.
I’m about to order evelina but have sooo many retellings plannee. Now just got to find a new non fiction book for the Readathon 🎉🎉🎉 Sooo excited I love this Readathon
Evelina is great.
@@michellehyland3675 yay thank you
Hoorah!!! A very anticipated announcement and beloved event.🧡
My favorite time of the year!!! I always start early!
Yay! Sounds like amazing plans for this Jane Austen July! Will absolutely be taking part.
Excellent. I love this readathon.
I’m in again and was so excited to see this video ❤️
I've just finished "Northanger Abbey" and really enjoyed it. Probably my favorite Austen so far after "Emma". Very entertaining ❤
Lovely to see this event back again!
I’m going to be reading Sense and Sensibility this year, it’ll be my 4th of her novels, so getting there 😁
So excited!!! 🎉
Yey, finally! I’ve been searching for “Jane Austen July” multiple times a day in these last three days, impatiently waiting for this announcement. I participated for the first time last year and absolutely loved it, so I’m really looking forward to this year’s Jane Austen July 🥳
I am looking forward to my first Jane Austen July! Thanks for all the great recommendations -- sci-fi Jane Austen, excellent! May I also recommend the section on Jane Austen in Annette Rubinstein's two-volume The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw. She is wonderful, insightful literary critic who brings a Marxist lens to bear -- meaning that she examines writers in the context of changing times. Very accessible, not dry!
Ooo that sounds very interesting!
Very excited for Jane Austen July this year! I'm not sure yet what I will read because I have so many options 😂
Really looking forward to Jane Austen July. So glad Northanger Abbey is included. Thanks for all the recommendations, I intend to do each challenge so I need to get myself sorted!!
Patty-I very much enjoyed teaching game you and a few other you tubers played. Claudia read out an action, and you and 3 other tubers would recreate the suggestion. I really loved your version of Jane Austen's hat. It was perfect.
Hi Katie! I’m really looking forward to this readalong. I’ve already started to pull out my books that I never got to last year!
Hi Katie😁!!! Looking forward for this readathon to begin😁🥰👍!!!
I’m very excited about the Northanger Abbey read along, because I love it so much - but also because I’m half way through The Mysteries of Udolpho right now and I keep thinking about the characters in NA.
I'm so excited for Jane Austen July! I love it! Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen book!
My husband got me a beautiful edition of Sanditon for a gift, so this is its time to shine!
Thank you so much for doing the Jane Austen July Readathon again! I’m very excited to join in! Ive lost count how many years Ive participated but its always a joy! I always pick up on little bits I missed when I reread her books. I will join the group reads, and most likely listen to Northanger Abbey as an audiobook (I have the book too). I especially like discovering other books and authors from her time period. And the retellings are so enjoyable too.. I cant wait to see your videos about Jane Austen and will be following along in Goodreads too.
Yay Jane Austen July! It will be my third year joining in and I hope to read my final one of the big six: Sense and Sensibility. I’m also planning to try The Murder of Mr Wickham. 😊📚
Yes, I think I need to try and get hold of The Murder of Mr Wickham, too!
This will be my first Jane Austin July. Really looking forward to it xxx
Very excited for Jane Austen July! I’m really looking forward to reading Emma, as I’ve not read that one in a while. And very happy the juvenilia is a group read; they are really fun. I didn’t know the second season of Rational Creatures was out! Will definitely be watching that, and also hopefully Fire Island to watch. 😊
I plan on participating. I just received my copy of Teenage Writings Jane Austen. Thank you to the person here that mentioned it.
Yay so so excited for Jane Austen July 😊 I don't read very fast and I only like reading one book at a time so I will not participate in a lot of the challenges. But I will definitely re-read a JA novel (for like the millionth time), and do the watching challenges. And maybe read a contemporary of.
Excited for our discussions on GoodReads too
This makes me smile. And I am back round to rereading Pride and Prejudice this year so everything is rosy. You have reminded me I have only dipped into The Genius of Jane Austen although I did swear this was the year I'd get to the Tomalin biography.
A good excuse to catch up on my over optimist buying back in Febregency! The John Mullen book is very readable and informative.
Wonderful! I'm planning to read Sanditon this month! And maybe the Lucy Worsley book. I love Lucy Worsley's shows.
Looking forward to it.
🎉🎉🎉🎉 My favorite readathon of the year!
Yay! Jane Austen July is always a highlight of my reading year. I will definitely be reading along with the short stories/juvenalia. If anyone is wondering I just checked and the Penguin Clothbound Classic of Love and Friendship contains all of the stories listed.
So looking forward to this! I’ve been craving an Austen reread 😊
I was thinking about how we're already halfway through June and how wild that is and then I thought, wait a minute, that means July is coming, which means JANE AUSTEN JULY IS COMING!!! Then I got really excited and went in search of your announcement video, lol. I immediately started building my TBR. I'm very excited for the readalongs, especially the Juvenilia since I haven't read any of it, I don't think. I've placed an order for The Genius of Jane Austen, which I'm very excited about, and Godmersham Park and Miss Austen, which I might not get to both in July, but I've been meaning to get copies of both for ages. I really want to read Unequal Affections but it seems to be out of print? Everywhere I look, there are only a few copies and available for exorbitant prices! Fortunately, it seems to be free for Audible members, so I think I can access it that way, but I'm sad not to have a print copy to mark up. 🤷♀
I think Unequal Affections isn't easy to get hold of - it's great, but I did buy it second-hand when one happened to come up at a reasonable price!
Totally amazing 💖
Marvelous! Celebrate the great & wonderful Jane Austen! I've a few things to read for 1st time, the juvenilia, Lady Susan, more letters, to finish Mullen, oh etc! Very excited. Looking forward to all your lots of 😉 videos. Much i want to read-- may have to start early, ha!
Oh, yes, and I'd love some readings! 👍
Oo, I'm looking forward to the "Are They Love Stories" video.
I’d love a video on the Crawfords. They are more complex than they’re given credit for, I think. I’m looking forward to seeing you talk about Willoughby! Maybe you’ll feel like doing one on Colonel Brandon or Mrs. Jennings one day as well!
Oooo Mrs Jennings I would love to do. She's great!
I'm reading Pride and Prejudice for my Jane Austen book club so that's one. I don't know how many times I've read it. I've listened to it many times but read it once. I just read the Mullen book just a few weeks ago. It is good. He spoke at our JA society meeting by zoom. He was great. I've read Miss Austen. I want to read the other one. I'm doing a deep dive into Maria Edgeworth and have read about four of her books one after the other. I am on Ormond now. I can't put it down. I count all of these books as part of this Jane Austen July project. I cannot read all these books in a month. I'll do well to read P and P. I have Jane at Home so I may read that one. Thanks for all your suggestions. There are some good ones in there. I'll add them to my list.
I can recommend an historical mystery series that takes place in the Regency period written by C. S. Harris. There are 18 books in the series and Jane Austen is in the 10th one! They are well researched.
I hope to take part!
Yes to a video about Willoughby!!!
I have a non fiction which is Jane Austen the Secret Radical. I may read the chapter about Northanger Abbey then reread Northanger Abbey for this readathon 😊
A good book set in the time of Jane Austen writing is Dangerous Alliance, it focuses on a MC that loves Jane Austens books and tries to be like the MCs from her books but also has to deal with some scandle
That book has some interesting let's just say opinions.
@Michelle Hyland I found it in a charity shop, it sounded interesting 😅
@@ReadingNymph Me too. My face when reading it.😯
Yes, The Secret Radical has some out there opinions XD I got very cross when I read it a few years ago, but also had fun disagreeing with it if that makes sense.
@@katiejlumsden Yes. Definitely. It marred my enjoyment of the books. It put me in a bit of a reading slump.
Love your channel! And of course I love Jane Austen’s books too. I would love to hear your review about Madame Bovary.
Thanks! I have read Madame Bovary, but years ago - I wasn't a massive fan.
Yay!!!!!
Just finished "Martin Chuzzlewit" and have enough time to read "Northanger Abbey". From NA there is the Seven Horrid gothic novels list ( chapter 6): The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story by Eliza Parsons (1793)
Clermont by Regina Maria Roche (1798)
The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale by Eliza Parsons (1796)
The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest by Karl Friedrich Kahlert (1794)
The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom (1798)
The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath (1798)
The Horrid Mysteries: A Story From the German Of The Marquis Of Grosse by Carl Grosse (1796).
Also mentioned a page later in chapter six is "Sir Charles Grandison" by Samuel Richardson. This is one of the longest epistolary novels, of which I'm about halfway through.
👍Willoughby 👍
I'm so excited for Jane Austen July again! I would love Mary Crawford or just the Crawford siblings getting a let's talk about video! I've already been kinda putting my tbr together in my head.
I definitely need to talk about the Crawfords sometime!
Have you ever read Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid? It’s been on my shelf for ages. I might give it a go in July.
I have . . . I didn't love it, to be honest. It was maybe ten years ago that I read it, but I didn't really get on with it! I didn't think it was terrible but a bit middling.
Very, very happy to see this announcement video as always! Excited to read Northanger Abbey with the group - I really enjoyed it and it’s been a couple of years since I read it. I may also dive into the Juvenalia. I am also planning to re-read Sense and Sensibility this year. I would love to hear your thoughts on whether JA books are romances - I see Northanger Abbey more as a coming of age novel, which does invariably result in having an element of romance because usually first love plays a part but that is in addition not the focus. Excited for all of this. Time to get planning! 👏🎉
Yes, I definitely agree!
Yay! This will be my third year participating of Jane Austen July and I've been warming up for the last couple of weeks, watching all your Jane Austen July playlists from previous years 😅. I plan to reread Emma, Longbourn and What Matters in Jane Austen, to finish Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England which I started last year and to read the stories collected as "The Beautiful Cassandra" in that Little Black Classics edition. I also ordered A Woman of Color, it should be here by the end of June. And I have some favourite films to watch for both watching challenges as well. This is so exciting!
I'd love to see more cooking videos if you're willing to try another recipe 😃
Enjoy :) And yes, I think I'll try and do another Regency cooking/baking video this year!
Yay! At last! Northanger Abbey as read-along is great news as it's the only of the main novels I haven't read.
Yep, I'm there. I love Jane Austen, thanks for the heads up about the free eBook of her Juvenilia, I found one for free, (I am on a book ban this month, went a little book buying mad last month.) Also, thanks for reminding me about Jane Austen at Home, I have that book and forgot about it. I am looking forward to Jane Austen July it is my first one. Thank you😊
Good afternoon from a cold South Africa. Wonderful! I am looking forward to Jane Austen July. Could you perhaps discuss the character of Isabella Thorpe from Northanger Abbey? I will be reading the Penguin Clothboud of Love and Friendship. English is my second language and the classics are my favourite genre. Your channel is excellent.
Ooo Isabella Thorpe is a very interesting character! Let's see if I can do a video both on her and on Willoughby!
Think I am gonna head to Emma as it’s high time I re-read that one❤ Or maybe Sense & Sensibility hmmmm I don’t know 😂😂 I will see how I feel nearer the time ❤
Just finished Northanger Abbey 2 days ago! And here I was thinking I was just missing Mansfield Park and Persuasion to have read all of her works lol
Hello there! Thank you very much for the recommendations. I also think Paula Byrne's take on the author is very new, competent, and readable. I would like to recommend another if I may. It is Jane Austen the secret radical by Helena Kelly. It is everything a book about the author should be. Can not recommend it highly enough! After reading it I felt the need to re-read all Austen's novels with this book by my side!
So, I read The Secret Radical years ago, just after it came out, and I really enjoyed reading it but disagreed with a lot of what Helena Kelly was saying. I feel like I would probably have a slightly different take on it now though, so maybe I need to reread it sometime!
Love Northanger Abbey..
I can really recommend In These Times by Jenny Uglow and Britain Against Napoleon by Roger Knight. The first is about life in Britain due the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the second looks at the political side of things of that time.
Ooo In These Times sounds really interesting!
@@katiejlumsden It IS. It refers a lot to Jane Austen, too
I have watched most of Metropolitan and didn’t care for it. I can’t remember thinking it was a retelling of Mansfield Park. Maybe I will give it a rewatch.
Haha maybe it's quite loose . . . I'll see if I can get hold of it somewhere!
John Thorpe though. What an eejit.😂😂
Hi Katie, would your book work for as a historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time?
Alas, no - it's set in 1852, so a good while after Jane Austen's death!
Mr. Elton or Mr. Hurst please.
Any interest in Henry James ?
I've read a little by him by not much. I haven't been blown away so far, but I do need to read more by him.