Less obscene but as audacious was Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009).Īnd now Eligible, the fourth instalment in HarperCollins' Austen Project, a modern reworking by established contemporary authors of Jane's six beloved novels. Apart from Miranda Pillow's Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition, there is Arielle Eckstut and Dennis Ashton's Pride and Promiscuity, which has Charlotte Lucas dressing in one of Lady Catherine's gowns to excite Mr Collins. Most recently, Jo Baker produced Longbourn, a quite superb account from downstairs, through the eyes of the Bennets' housemaid, Sarah. James' Death Comes to Pemberley appeared. In 2008 Colleen McCullough wrote The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet and three years later the venerable P. There was Dorothea Bonavia-Hunt's creditable Pemberley Shades in 1949 and Emma Tennant's Pemberley in 1994. In Celebrating Pride and Prejudice (2013), Susannah Fullerton, the best of Janeites, listed the mutating sequels, retellings and travesties. Yet she has endured two centuries of obsession, exploitation and abuse. So any author needs to show great care when taking on Lizzie.
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