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Pride And Promiscuity

In 2002 an amateur Jane Austen scholar while staying at a Hertfordshire estate stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Pride and Prejudice's Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park's incest subtext becomes manifest; and Darcy gets more than his shirt wet. This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish and delight mischievous Austenites.
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In 2002 an amateur Jane Austen scholar while staying at a Hertfordshire estate stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages & made an extraordinary literary discovery
- lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Pride & Prejudice's Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park's incest subtext becomes manifest; & Darcy gets more than his shirt wet. This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish & delight mischievous Austenites.

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