Tag: September

Sequels in September: A Different Persuasion – Part 4

Sir Walter Elliot stood in one of his two fine adjoining drawing-rooms in Bath, minutely examining his elegant figure in a long pier-glass mirror. It was placed between two ornamented windows, so that the daylight might best reveal the morning condition and texture of his complexion. At the moment he was occupied in examining the …

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Death & Life – a sequel to P&P and The Three Colonels, by Jack Caldwell

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, my second published novel, THE THREE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men—a grand sequel to two of Jane Austen’s works: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility—was originally published on-line. What you may not know is I also wrote a vignette about the characters in that story …

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But What Happens Next?

“But don’t you want to know what happens next?” That’s the question I often ask when I meet someone who tells me how much they love Jane Austen’s books, especially Pride and Prejudice. Their answer is usually the same as my own: yes, yes, YES! We’ve fallen in love with the characters, and we’re not ready …

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A Walk up Beechen Cliff

“They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.” – Northanger Abbey         On a trip to Bath a couple of summers ago, I was fortunate to visit an old “friend in Jane,” another …

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