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Prejudice in Jane Austen, Emma Tennant, Charles Dickens--and Us.

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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 20000922
Author:JOSEPH, GERHARD

In one of the treasure troves that the internet habitually throws off these days, the AUSTENLIST itemizes sixty-eight Jane Austen literary "reversions" (including eight of Pride and Prejudice) written between 1850 and 2000. [1] Most are sequels to the novels or a given novel's action seen from a minor character's point of view, but there are also such oddities as a re-creation of Austen's letters in rhyme royal, a postscript to Persuasion with a choice of endings a la The French Lieutenant's Woman, a play about Jane's mysterious seaside romance, a novel about "Antipodes Jane" and ...

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