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| Genre/Form: | Regency fiction Mystery fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jane Austen; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; Jane Austen; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephanie Barron |
| ISBN: | 9780553386707 0553386700 |
| OCLC Number: | 503042038 |
| Notes: | Includes an interview with the author, p. 335-339. |
| Description: | 339 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Stephanie Barron. |
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Jane Austen goes to Brighton
Jane Austen is back to sleuthing in Stephanie Barron's latest mystery. This time Jane's sister-in-law Eliza has just died of what seems to be breast cancer, so Jane accompanies her brother Henry to Brighton to flee the overwhelming melancholy of his house in London. En route to Brighton, the...
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Jane Austen is back to sleuthing in Stephanie Barron's latest mystery. This time Jane's sister-in-law Eliza has just died of what seems to be breast cancer, so Jane accompanies her brother Henry to Brighton to flee the overwhelming melancholy of his house in London. En route to Brighton, the duo rescue a teenage girl tied up in a carriage. She's been abducted by Lord Byron, the famous poet who has become obsessed with her. Jane and Henry return her to her father, General Twining, and go on about their business. But Miss Twining is a magnet for trouble, and soon Jane is immersed with trying to figure out who did what to whom, why, when, and how.
I love how Barron creates these novels that fit within the timeline and documented events of Jane Austen's life. Did Jane ever go to Brighton? Did she ever meet Lord Byron? No one knows, but she could have done so, according to the gaps in her chronology.
I also love Barron's portrayal of Jane's secret delight as people praise Pride and Prejudice in front of her, unaware of the author's identity. :)
For readers' advisors: story doorway mostly, but also setting and a bit of character
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