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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Janice Hadlow
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250129435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." —Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own. What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of Janice Hadlow's The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Jane Austen fans. Ultimately, Mary’s journey is like that taken by every Austen heroine. She learns that she can only expect joy when she has accepted who she really is. She must throw off the false expectations and wrong ideas that have combined to obscure her true nature and prevented her from what makes her happy. Only when she undergoes this evolution does she have a chance at finding fulfillment; only then does she have the clarity to recognize her partner when he presents himself—and only at that moment is she genuinely worthy of love. Mary’s destiny diverges from that of her sisters. It does not involve broad acres or landed gentry. But it does include a man; and, as in all Austen novels, Mary must decide whether he is the truly the one for her. In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary is a fully rounded character—complex, conflicted, and often uncertain; but also vulnerable, supremely sympathetic, and ultimately the protagonist of an uncommonly satisfying debut novel.

Author: Richard James Morrison
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Amy King
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198036566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.

Author: John PULLAR (of Dunnichen.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Maud Wheeler
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427036438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Sourcebooks, Inc Staff
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140224018X
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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"Original watercolor illustrations from Jane Austen's novels accompany a splendid array of quotes in this companion book about courtship, romance, and love." -- Back of book.

Author: Orson Squire Fowler
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Anne Tuttle Jones Bullard
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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