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Searching for Pemberley by Mary Lydon Simonsen

December 8, 2009

Mary Lydon Simonsen’s Searching for Pemberley starts was a premise many interviewers often ask authors about their fiction:  “Are any of your characters based upon real people?”  Did Jane Austen use real people to write the great love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy?  Simonsen’s book may not offer the truth behind Austen’s characters, [...]

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Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe

November 5, 2009

Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe reunites readers with Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and Marianne’s sisters Margaret and Elinor from Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen.  “But three years of married life had done little to really change her.  Marianne still had an impetuous nature, she still retained a desire for impulse and enterprises undertaken on [...]

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A Match for Mary Bennet by Eucharista Ward

October 6, 2009

Eucharista Ward O.S.F.’s A Match for Mary Bennet: Can a serious young lady ever find her way to love? is delightful and reminiscent of the regency craftswoman Jane Austen herself.  The novel’s pace is dead on, unfurling Mary Bennet’s character slowly, allowing readers to sit with her, getting to know her mind, her choices and [...]

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The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini

September 24, 2009

The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini is loosely based upon Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the youngest judge appointed to the bench of San Francisco and Meryton is not a town in England, but a town outside of San Francisco, California. Elizabeth Bennet is an attorney with Gardiner [...]

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Savvy Recap . . .

August 20, 2009

I just wanted to take a moment to recap some goings on here at Savvy Verse & Wit and at D.C. Literature Examiner. I started out pledging to read 5 books for the War Through the Generations: WWII Reading Challenge, and I met my goal. However, I think I’ll probably read some more books for [...]

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Jane Austen Mix-and-Match Mini Challenge

August 16, 2009

Books and Bards is hosting the Jane Austen Mix-and-Match Mini Challenge for all Everything Austen participants, and there are prizes. If you haven’t checked it out, you should. Deadline is September 14. For now, here are my romantic pairs from the list Books and Bards provided. Come on down, couple #1: Edmund Bertram and Lydia [...]

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Focus Features Presents Pride & Prejudice (2005)

August 10, 2009

Focus Features’ Pride & Prejudice stars Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen and was released in 2005. What’s to love about this version of the classic Jane Austen novel is the performances, the score, the cinematography, the screenplay adaptation, and everything. Keira Knightley plays Elizabeth Bennet and she does a beautiful job expressing the character’s emotions, [...]

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Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

August 6, 2009

“Her attention was attracted by movement close at hand and she saw the dark shape of a bird–no, a bat–heading towards the window. She closed it quickly, leaving the bat to hover outside. As she looked at it she was seized with a strange feeling. She thought how lonely it must feel, being shut out; [...]

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Everything Austen Reading Challenge

June 22, 2009

Remember when I said I was only signing up for the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge because it was about Vampires? Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’m signing up for the Everything Austen Challenge. Why all this torture? Here’s why: 1. It’s Jane Austen2. It’s movies and books3. It’s Jane Austen Sequels4. It’s Jane Austen-inspired [...]

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