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Title: Mr. Darcy's Daughters : A Novel by Elizabeth Aston ISBN: 0-7432-4397-8 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.78 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Delightful
Comment: While Mr Darcy's Daughters is not a classic in the Jane Austin tradition, it is a witty and well paced novel in it's own right. If your looking for a classic Austin read Austin. If your looking for a delightful lighthearted book that is well written and well paced than Mr. Darcy's Daughters is for you. No it's not Austin but it is not suppost to be. It is a wonderful book by a talented author who has great promise and should be judged on her own merit. Read Mr. Darcy's daughters because it is a good novel, don't read it because you want to climb into the pages of a Jane Auston novel. Auston is gone, few if any can match her talent, but Ms. Aston gives it a damn good shot.
Rating: 1
Summary: Mr. Darcy's Daughters? I think not.
Comment: Considering that neither Darcy ("As a child I was taught what was right;but I was not taught to correct my temper.") nor Elizabeth([Mr. Bennet's] "talents which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters..") thought their parents perfect, I would think that they would have made some effort in raising their daughters. Instead, they leave the girls in London (was there no one to stand as guardian/companion and live temporarily at magnificent Pemberley?!) while they are away for almost a year in Constantinople. Given Miss Darcy and Lydia's experiences with Wickham, I seriously doubt if Austen's Lizzy and Darcy would do such a thing.
I barely recognized Col. Fitzwilliam and Mrs. Gardiner. In a way I'm glad Lizzy and Darcy were away, I'd rather not find out how the author will treat them. These girls bear little resemblance to their parents.
There was no effort to imitate Regency English which was fine with me, but I thought the characters addressed each other too informally at times.
This may be a good read for some, but not my first choice for a good Pride and Prejudice sequel.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not convincing enough
Comment: First of all, I think the story would have been more entertaining if Elizabeth and Darcy had been around instead of mysteriously taking a trip for almost more than a year. Who does that, and leaves five young daughters in someone else's care? And Elizabeth, for all the sense she possessed, cannot be thought of as having 3 very stupid daughters. Only Camilla and Alethea were the saving graces of this novel. Ditto for Mrs. Gardiner who was portrayed to be Elizabeth's favorite aunt, having a dumb daughter like Sophie. I have never understood how with being under one roof and one set of parents, 3 girls were never corrected and let to go as they pleased. All in all, it did not come across as an accurate portrayal, and did not leave me satisfied with the ending.
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Title: Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro ISBN: 1589392647 Publisher: VirtualBookworm.com Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Bar Sinister, Pride and Prejudice Continues by Linda Berdoll ISBN: 0967481708 Publisher: Well, There It Is Publishing Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Pemberley : Or Pride & Prejudice Continued by Emma Tennant, Jane Austen ISBN: 0312107935 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: Book 1) by Pamela Aidan ISBN: 0972852905 Publisher: Wytherngate Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Presumption: An Entertainment: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Julia Barrett ISBN: 0226038130 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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