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An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House, where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The intention of the prize is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House. Chair of Judges is bestselling author Sarah Waters. Published by Honno Press in conjunction with Chawton House.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent series of short stories by women writers in a competition with an Austen or Chawton House-based theme. Although clearly in love with the eponymous hero (as is my wife, to whom it was a Xmas present) they conjure up a range of imaginative stories from the romantic to the macabre based, however loosely, on Austen characters or on visits to the house.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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This is a real pleasure of a volume. It is a collection of 20 short stories, all by different authors and all inspired by Jane Austen. The Jane Austen theme does not lead to the tales being boring or repetetive - rather they are remarkably creative and reading this book involves none of the "slogging" through weaker efforts that short story collections often entail. If you enjoy the social comedy, restrained intelligence and wordly romance of Jane Austen then you will enjoy these tales. For me, three stories particuarly stood out. Firsty, the first story - Jane Austen over the Styx by Victoria Owens is an amusing imagining of Jane Austen in the after life at the gates of Hades being judged on the basis of testimony from all of her most maligned female characters. Secondly, Miss Austen Victorious by Esther Bellamy is an accomplished short story set in a country house during the second world war in which various members of the local community rehearse for an am-dram performance of Pride and Prejudice. It is nicely written and neatly structured, but the brilliance of this story is in its excellent sense of time and place. Thirdly, I so enjoyed the hilarious One Character in Search of Her Love Story Role by Felicity Cowie. In addition to being a fun story this is a pastiche of an academic sketch in which Jane Austen characters mingle with other fictional figures in an imagined literary hinterland in order to give one another support and learn tips. The revelation of this tale is that it highlights the huge extent to which one feels that one "knows" Jane Austen's characters.
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