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Over the years as Barbara Pym replaced Nancy Mitford Georgette Heyer even Jane Austen as my most loved author I devoured all her books but JANE & PRUDENCE remains my favourite Even an umpteenth reading this weekend was punctuated by gasps of joy laughter & wonder that this lovely book should remain so fresh funny & true to life' Jilly Cooper' The setting of this very funny novel one of Barbara Pym's earliest is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar & where Prudence will pay Jane a visit & find herself courted by a fatuous young widower Prudence at twenty-nine has achieved nothing in life but a dull research job in London & a string of dud affairs; Jane now in her forties was Prudence's tutor at Oxford Jane cheerfully concedes that she is an incompetent housewife but she hopes that the move to a rural parish may transform her into a Trollopean vicar's wife as well as a crafty matchmaker There are many comic complications here as Jane learns that matchmaking has as many pitfalls as does housewifery' The New Yorker ...

Part of the bestselling Little People BIG DREAMS series Jane Austen tells the inspiring story of one of the most loved British writers of all time 32 pages Sanchez Vegara Maria Isabel ...

On the eve of the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death step back into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen's childhood home her schools her holiday accommodation the houses both grand & small of the relations upon whom she was dependent & the home she shared with her mother & sister towards the end of her life where she wrote her many of her famous novels This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how & why she lived as she did examining the rooms spaces & possessions which mattered to her & the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure & a prison Jane famously lived a 'life without incident' but with new research & insights Lucy Worsley will reveal a passionate woman who fought for her freedom A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy ...

Welcome to the world of Jane Austen manga – style! Jane Austen is one of the most widely read authors in the history of English literature Her most popular works live in the world of romantic fiction during the 18th century The themes realism & social commentary she created have endured for generations & continue to influence writers to this day Manga Classics proudly presents our first coloring book collection of artwork from our critically acclaimed manga adaptations of Pride and Prejudice Emma & Sense & Sensibility Relive some of the best moments from your favorite Austen stories with our Manga Classics Jane Austen Coloring Book Inside this wonderful coloring book you’ll discover over 40 beautifully illustrated pages featuring Mr Darcy Elizabeth Bennet and others from Pride & Prejudice For fans of Emma there is our heroine Emma Woodhouse as well as Jane Fairfax Mr Frank Churchill & George Knightley We also include the Dashwood sisters Elinor & Marianne along with Edward Ferrars & John Willoughby- all from Sense and Sensibility ...

In Jane Austen&s Matchmaker a card game for 3 to 6 players you place your Ladies into Society & propose to other players& Ladies with your Gentlemen Some proposals lead to love & happiness & some to financial prosperity but some are nothing more than shallow seductions Whatever happens you must ensure that your characters come out on top! When proposing if a Gentleman&s Charm is lower than the Lady&s he must discard cards to make up the difference If he wants to really impress her he can discard additional cards to boost his Charm If the Lady accepts the players exchange characters & whoever has the higher Wealth draws cards equal to the difference If she declines
- paying cards if necessary to counter his Charm offensive
- the Gentleman returns to the player&s hand to brush up on his manners Declining a proposal from a Gentleman with a higher Rank will earn you additional cards & if you have more Ladies in Society than anyone else at the start of your turn you get an extra &go& This can help you to dominate the matchmaking scene but will doubtless draw the ire of your rivals It&s good to be protective of your Ladies but don&t let them get left on the shelf When the deck runs out the game ends & players tally up the Virtue of their married characters then subtract the Virtue of their &old maids& (Ladies left unwed in Society) Whoever has the highest Virtue total wins!

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This expansion consists of 50 new cards & rules to supplement the original game You must still make advantageous marriages for your ladies & gentleman but now with the inconvenience of an undead apocalypse which threatens to make a bloody mess of your wedding plans One player starts the game afflicted with the Curse of the Living Dead The Cursed player draws cards from the new deck
- both on their own turn & when anyone gets married This deck

Includes:: many Zombie cards which transform the Cursed player&s ladies & gentlemen into flesh-eating monsters! If the player runs out of characters to infect they must pass the Curse onto someone else Gift cards send useful items to other players
- including weapons & the means to protect themselves from zombie attacks Event cards may unleash a horde of ravenous Zombies on polite society or help the poor survivors to persevere with their essential tea-drinking & courtship It is very difficult for the Cursed player to win but not impossible
- if they can keep their Zombies well-fed with a stocked up Slaughter pile Players 3-6 Suggested ages 12 Playing time 20-60 minutes




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In Matchmaker you take characters under your wing & try to find them suitable partners Some characters want to fall in hopelessly in love but others are more pragmatic
- or just plain mercenary! You&ll discover your characters’ motives with the roll of a dice Each character has a preference which makes them more likely to prefer a particular ‘trait’
- Charm Virtue Rank or Fortune Making a suitable match – for example marrying one of your gold-diggers to a rich suitor – will earn you more prestige The player who earns the most prestige wins the game You can gain even more prestige by earning the approval of patrons Mrs Norris only approves of people with a good fortune whereas Lady Bertram is more impressed by charm In addition to making matches you can invite characters to prestigious residences to boost your prestige still further Make sure you invite the right sort of guest they don&t approve of riffraff at Mansfield Park! The original Matchmaker card game was intended for social play (3 or more players) but I received many requests for a 2-player variant Jane Austen&s Matchmaker Chapter 2 was designed with this in mind Whether you play head to head or with up to three other players you must assess each proposal & your chances of coming out on top before you accept or decline

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A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once & for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves' Caroline Criado-Perez Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses & they were not written just for readers' enjoyment She writes about serious subjects & her books are deeply subversive We just don't read her properly
- we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years Jane Austen The Secret Radical puts that right In her first brilliantly original book Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres the novel to grapple with the weightiest of subjects
- feminism slavery abuse the treatment of the poor the power of the Church even evolution
- at a time & in a place when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason Uncovering a radical spirited & political engaged Austen Jane Austen The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane all over again


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A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once & for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves' Caroline Criado-Perez Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses & they were not written just for readers' enjoyment She writes about serious subjects & her books are deeply subversive We just don't read her properly
- we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years Jane Austen The Secret Radical puts that right In her first brilliantly original book Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres the novel to grapple with the weightiest of subjects
- feminism slavery abuse the treatment of the poor the power of the Church even evolution
- at a time & in a place when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason Uncovering a radical spirited & political engaged Austen Jane Austen The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane all over again


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