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Dearest Cousin Jane: A Jane Austen Novel (2010)

by Jill Pitkeathley(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061875988 (ISBN13: 9780061875984)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: An easy read full of historical detail, but the dialogue was occasionally heavy-handed, as it awkwardly attempted to explain large leaps of time and backstory in conversation between characters who wouldn't need to say these things to each other. It also went a bit far afield for its double focus on Eliza Austen and Jane Austen, and might've done better to focus on just one or two perspectives; juggling so many narrators felt like too much and that some were inconsistent. Still, I enjoyed it.
review 2: My most recent capitulation to the jumping-on-Jane's-bandwagon oeuvre. Not bad, actually. Pitkeathley writes the period well, no glaring anachronisms, no actions that seemed out of character for her real-life protagonists. Austen's cousin (and later sister-in-law... more) Eliza was undoubtedly the inspiration for Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park, and is an interesting person in her own right. Relaxing bedtime reading for Austen fans. less

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