Mrs. Bennet Tells All, by Jack Caldwell Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here. One of the most enduring tropes in JAFF is the unfeeling, slightly cruel, and stupid Mrs. Bennet. Taking a bit from the novel and a lot from the P&P 1995 adaptation, there is a belief that Mrs. Bennet hates her second daughter and …
Happy Friday! It’s been a busy week for me, so I’m afraid I still haven’t finished this story…and this installment feels a bit raw and rushed. In other words, thanks for hanging in there with me! (If you’re new to this story and are brave enough to read the previous installments, here are parts one, …
Pride and Prejudice or Ship of Fools, by Jack Caldwell Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here. I have had the pleasure of reading and re-reading Miss Jane Austen’s major works many times, and while Persuasion remains my favorite, I can certainly understand the immense popularity of her wonderful novel Pride and Prejudice. Heck, I’ve written ten …
Many changes had come to Longbourn since the day on which Mrs. Bennet had got rid of her two mostdeserving daughters. Once she would have protested that with all her daughters married, she would have nothing else to wish for, but the reality was something different, and Mrs Bennet had perhaps more complaints now …
Mr. Darcy Came to Dinner 10th Anniversary, by Jack Caldwell Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Ten years ago, I published the funniest novel I have written to date: MR. DARCY CAME TO DINNER – A Pride & Prejudice Farce. I’d like to deeply thank those of you who have been so kind to read it, …
Is it possible to have too many Williams? I like the name – very much, in fact. Even so, there ought to be a limit as to number. One thing I’ve learned as a novelist is that you shouldn’t confuse your readers with character names that are too similar. If you’ve already got a Terry …
August was hot in Venice, as might have been expected, and the Darcy party sat outside in the garden, fanning themselves and taking some comfort from the shade offered by the olive and persimmon trees. There was no coolness to be derived from the canal below the terraces of the Palazzo Mocenigo, as no breeze …
It’s release day!! Well, it was meant to be release day on April 20th, but Amazon gave me a little surprise by publishing early! 😀 To celebrate, I’ll be gifting TWO e-book copies to TWO LUCKY WINNERS! Just leave a message below letting me what you enjoy most about Darcy and Elizabeth’s interactions in Rosings. …
At long last, I am at the final stages of my non-magical WIP, Allow Me to Tell You: A Regency Pride and Prejudice Variation. Writing this novel has been a strange and convoluted process. Originally, it was supposed to be a very short comic novella, part of a series of novellas that started with Longbourn …
It had been a quiet three weeks at Longbourn, to Mr. Bennet’s satisfaction. His wife and daughters were having all the enjoyment of a visit to her brother Gardiner’s house in London, and since their leaving the countryside in a wild and noisy burst of excitement, Mr. Bennet had not been sorry to be left …
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