Jane Austen abandoned The Watsons after 17500 words but told her sister what the ending would have been. Two hundred years later, Merryn Williams has completed this realistic and delightful novel, according to Jane Austen's guidelines. Jane Austen continues to top the poll of being the nation's most favoured writer of romantic fiction. Most women feel that the book that has transformed their lives is the one that assures them that they will marry the wealthy handsome man and live happily ever after. And she impacts on men's lives too...Irvin Walsh recently revealed that Jane Austen's genteel fiction was major influence on him.
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Irresistible! -- You Magazine
One of the more seamless transitions from Austen's uncompleted novel; this completion is particularly gratifying -- The Republic of Pemberley, Australia
True to the work of Jane Austen... the story is gentle and it provides a very enjoyable reading experience -- The Jane Austen Society, UK
We enjoyed it and are selling it! -- The Jane Austen House Museum, Winchester UK
One of the more seamless transitions from Austen's uncompleted novel; this completion is particularly gratifying -- The Republic of Pemberley, Australia
True to the work of Jane Austen... the story is gentle and it provides a very enjoyable reading experience -- The Jane Austen Society, UK
We enjoyed it and are selling it! -- The Jane Austen House Museum, Winchester UK
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This book has been faithfully completed by Merryn Williams whose career history includes lecturing on Literature including teaching the nineteenth-century novel to Open University students; she has been an editor and is the author of 16 previous literary works published by MacMillan, including studies of Thomas Hardy and several women novelists, as well as famous sequels inc. 'The Chalet Girls Grow Up'.
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The first winter assembly in the town of D. in Surrey was to be held on Tuesday, October 13th and it was generally expected to be a very good one. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Continues the story of unmarried sisters and changes of fortune begun by Austen. By retaining the period mood and the shrewd eye, Williams achieves a smooth transition towards a convincing end for this story.
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I´ve never written a review, but I HAD to review this book--it is just awesome. Like many Janeites, I wish she would have left us with many, many more novels than she did, and have been yearning for books that take off on or complete her work while emulating her style. There are plenty of books out there attempting this, but I have found most of them disappointing. Well, not this one. As another reviewer remarked, it is difficult to tell where Austen´s original manuscript ends and the new material starts--the author has done a magnificent job adopting both Austen´s language and her style of setting and advancing plot, her ability to sketch character, her subtle humour, etc. I just loved this book, and only wished it would have been three times as long (as it was, I read it in one sitting). Highly, highly recommended!!
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I have got an advance copy and think it's brilliant! It was hard to tell where Austen ends and Williams takes over because their language is very similar. I liked Emma and laughed a lot at her greedy sisters and the awful Tom Musgrave, who thinks he is God's gift to women. It made me think what it would have been like to be a young woman in Emma's situation, who is abandoned by her adopted mother and sent back to a family who seem to resent her, with no money and no job. It is a light-hearted book though, and well worth reading.
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One of the best completions of The Watsons
I have copies of, I think, all of the easily-obtainable completed versions of The Watsons (by: L. Oulton 1923; Edith and Francis Brown 1928; John Coates 1958; "Another Lady" 1977;... Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2006 by Shedmaker
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Excellent and engaging!
This is one of the two best Austen continuations I've read, the other being the Sanditon completion by Marie Dobbs. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2003 by HL
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I laughed, I cried, but I couldn't put it down!
I have read many versions of The Watson's and this is by far the best! What an uncanny sense of humour! I would never have thought it was written by a man... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2000
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