Coming Soon: Impulse Initiative

In Jane Austen's classic Pride & Prejudice, Mr. Darcy gives up on winning the woman he loves after she refuses him.

What if ...
Instead of disappearing from Elizabeth Bennet's life after she refused his offer of marriage, Mr. Darcy had stayed and tried to change her mind?

What if ...
Lizzy, as she gets to know Darcy, finds him undeniably attractive and her impulses win out over her sense of propriety?

What if ...
Madly in love and mutually on fire, their passion anticipates their wedding? In Impulse & Initiative, instead of avoiding Elizabeth after his ill-fated marriage proposal, Mr. Darcy follows her back to her home in Hertfordshire, planning to prove to her he is a changed man and worthy of her love. And little by little, Elizabeth begins to find the man she despised becoming irresistible...

Exploring the roads not taken in Pride and Prejudice, Abigail Reynolds picks up from a pivotal point in Pride and Prejudice - Mr. Darcy's botched marriage proposal - and imagines lively plot twists and ecstatically happy endings.

Coming Soon On This Blog: Abigail Reynold's perspective.

Mrs. Elton in America

Mrs. Elton in America by Diana Birchall is now available for order as either a printed book or a download from Source Books or at Amazon.com. Diana is so excited, for the cover looks smashing and stunning. To Diana this painting of the Duchesse de Berry by the noted female painter Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun is Mrs. Elton in the flesh. "So elegant...yet the woman has that little bit of a vulgar look. You could not ask for a more stunningly eye catching cover, I think!"

In this book Mrs. Elton crosses the Atlantic Ocean with her caro sposo and children. She enjoys high comedic adventures in Boston and New York society, makes a sobering visit to a Southern slave state, and sojourns among the Comanche Indians. Her trip to America is the talk of Highbury...

For new visitors to this blog, Diana Birchall is the featured writer in Mrs. Elton Sez, in which she answers questions posed to her. If you have a question for Mrs. Elton, please send it in. She will be happy to answer it to the best of her ability. For previous Mrs. Elton Sez letters, click on the above link.

To understand our mini infatuation with this slightly vulgar, sometimes misunderstood and often irritating character, read In Defense of Mrs. Elton in the Jane Austen Centre's Online Magazine.

Posted by Vic of Jane Austen's World

And the Winners Are ....

Christina and Sea Star! Please email me at janeaustensworld at gmail dot com and provide a mailing address. The first person to contact me will have first choice between Georgette Heyer's Faro's Daughter or An Infamous Army. The books have been graciously donated by SourceBooks. Our readers provided an interesting and varied summer reading list with many classics. Here it is:

• Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith (2 recommendations)
• Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• World Without End, Ken Follett
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• The Senator's Wife, Sue Miller
• Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• Breath, Tim Winton.
• A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
• Middlemarch, George Elliot
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• All of Jane Austen
• Playing the Jack, Mary Brown
• Secrets of a Lady, Tracy Grant, and its sequel, Beneath a Silent Moon.
• God of Small Things, Arunduti Roy
• Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
• Rachel's Holiday, Marian Keyes, and any books by her
• Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
• Summer By the Sea, Susan Wiggs.
• The Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon (2 recommendations)