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10 best books like Behind Jane Austen's Door (Jennifer Forest): Searching for Captain Wentworth, Pirates and Prejudice, His Good Opinion: A Mr. Darcy Novel, A Pemberley Medley, The Three Colonels: Jane Austen's Fighting Men, One Thread Pulled: The Dance with Mr. Darcy, He Taught Me to Hope, The World of Jane Austen, My Dear Charlotte, Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1

Searching for Captain Wentworth
AuthorJane Odiwe
When aspiring writer, Sophie Elliot, receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it's an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house her favourite author, Jane Austen, lived in. But, the neglected house is harbouring more than the...
Pirates and Prejudice
AuthorKara Louise
ISBN0615815421
After Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr. Darcy's offer of marriage, it takes a heavy toll on him. He withdraws to London and disappears near the docks, away from family, friends, and acquaintances. When he is mistaken for an escaped pirate, he is thrust into an adventure he would never have imagined. Will...
His Good Opinion: A Mr. Darcy Novel
AuthorNancy Kelley
Mr. Darcy Speaks from the Heart:
Pride and Prejudice from his Point of View

Though tired of Society's manipulations, Darcy never thought to be enchanted by a country maiden. Yet on a visit to rural Hertfordshire, Elizabeth Bennet captivates him. Lovely and vivacious, she is everything...
A Pemberley Medley
AuthorAbigail Reynolds
Five pathways to Pemberley!

It’s the best of all worlds in this collection of five short Pride & Prejudice variations by bestselling writer Abigail Reynolds. Can Mr. Darcy win Elizabeth Bennet’s heart… or are they doomed to misunderstand one another forever? Can Mr. Darcy stand...
The Three Colonels: Jane Austen's Fighting Men
AuthorJack Caldwell
Love reigns supreme for our three brave colonels at the start of this epic tale. Colonels Buford, Fitzwilliam, and Brandon are enjoying their courtships and their early married lives with three beloved Jane Austen heroines. The couples lead tranquil lives- until Napoleon escapes from exile. While...
One Thread Pulled: The Dance with Mr. Darcy
AuthorDiana J. Oaks
ISBN1475149611
When the wealthy and handsome Fitzwilliam Darcy encounters the beautiful and lively Elizabeth Bennet at a small country ball, he loudly refuses to dance with her, declaring her to be merely tolerable. Fortunately for Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth has walked away and does not overhear his insult, thus snagging...
He Taught Me to Hope
AuthorP.O. Dixon
Jane Austen continuations or reimaginings are always problematical. Just like fan-fiction in general, or unheralded self-published books, or Star Trek novels, there is now and then a gem which makes the hunt somewhat worthwhile.

Not too often, however.

He Taught Me To Hope falls...
The World of Jane Austen
AuthorNigel Nicolson
ISBN0753800179
In addition to devising some of the most remarkable characters in literature, Jane Austen vividly depicted their world. An engaging mixture of biography and photographic study provides a glimpse into the houses and scenery that formed the "stage set" where her stories unfolded, from the author's...
My Dear Charlotte
AuthorHazel Holt
ISBN1603810404
My Dear Charlotte is a British Regency mystery set in the early 1800s and infused throughout with the actual language of Jane Austen, one of the world’s great stylists and comic writers. Hazel Holt has published 19 Mrs. Malory mysteries in the tradition of Barbara Pym and has admirers around the world....
Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1
AuthorRobert Rodi
Novelist Rodi (Fag Hag, The Sugarman Bootlegs) launches a broadside against the depiction of Jane Austen as a “a woman’s writer…quaint and darling, doe-eyed and demure, parochial if not pastoral, and dizzily, swooningly romantic — the inventor and mother goddess of ‘chick lit.’”...
Echoes of Pemberley
AuthorCynthia Ingram Hensley
ISBN1936009196
A tragic plane crash eight years earlier has left Catherine Elizabeth Darcy orphaned and in the custody of her overly protective brother, Bennet. Since then, her life at Pemberley Estate - the Darcy's ancestral home in Derbyshire, England - has been sheltered and lacking adventure of any kind. When...
The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
AuthorNatalie Tyler
ISBN0141001925
Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed passion for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and foibles of human nature. Today she is more popular than ever. Natalie Tyler captures the essence of this enthusiasm in a book that shuns obscure academic approaches and provides...
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane
AuthorAmy Elizabeth Smith
ISBN1402265859
"An illuminating insight...fascinating."--Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary

"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world--and...
Drinking with Dead Women Writers
AuthorElaine Ambrose
"A rare mix of cleverness and intellect, and a total blast to read." -Alan Heathcock, award winning author of VOLT.

"Engaging and revealing, but most of all, flat out funny." -Flashlight Commentary

Essays on drinking with Dorothy Parker, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Erma Bombeck,...
Caroline Bingley
AuthorJennifer Becton
When Charles Bingley and Mr. Darcy made proposals of marriage to the Bennet sisters at the end of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Caroline Bingley was both distressed by her brother's choice of bride and humiliated by Mr. Darcy's rejection of her. And she made her objections known. Now banished from...
Becoming Elizabeth Darcy
AuthorMary Lydon Simonsen
In 2011, American Elizabeth Hannigan, suffering from the flu, falls into a coma and wakes up in the bed and body of Elizabeth Bennet Darcy. Beth soon realizes that the only way back to her life in the 21st Century is through the Master of Pemberley, Jane Austen's Fitzwilliam Darcy. But first she must uncover...
Darcy's Decision
AuthorMaria Grace
Six months after his father's passing, Fitzwilliam Darcy still finds solace in his morning reflections at his parents' graves. Only in the quiet solitude of the churchyard does he indulge his grief. None but his unlikely mentor recognize the heartache and insecurity plaguing him as he shoulders the...
Longbourn's Unexpected Matchmaker
AuthorEmma Hox
ISBN0615328857
Would Pride and Prejudice have been different if Colonel Fitzwilliam had accompanied Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy to Netherfield? What would happen if Mr. Darcy made friends with a mysterious member of the Meryton neighborhood who refuses an introduction but who has a close relationship with the Bennet...
Jane Austen and Food
AuthorMaggie Lane
ISBN1852851244
What was the significance of the pyramid of fruit which confronted Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley? Or of the cold beef eaten by Willoughby on his journey of repentance to see Marianne? Why is it so appropriate that the scene of Emma's disgrace should be a picnic, and how do the different styles of housekeeping...
Charlotte: Pride & Prejudice Continues
AuthorKaren Aminadra
When Charlotte Lucas married Mr Collins, she did not love him but had at least secured her future. However, what price must she pay for that future? She once said she was not romantic, but how true is that now after almost one year of marriage?

Mr Collins is submissive in the extreme to his patroness,...
Colin Firth: The Man Who Would Be King
AuthorSandro Monetti
Think you know all there is to know about Colin Firth? Well think again! For this detailed, insightful and entertaining biography of the likeable and handsome Oscar-winning star is packed with unforgettable stories to fascinate every fan. From the time Firth's wig fell off into the sea to the actors...
The Netherfield Affair: A Dark Darcy Mystery
AuthorPenelope Swan
Book 1 of a Four-Part Series

When Elizabeth Bennet goes to stay at Netherfield Park to keep her sick sister company, she is surprised by eerie noises in the night and ghostly faces at the attic windows. Could the rumours about the country manor being haunted be true? Then a midnight encounter...
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