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230 pp.
| Candlewick
| September, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-7636-3464-3$15.99
(3)
YA
Bennett imagines the story of the young Jane Austen (called Jenny) penning novels, looking for love, and struggling for independence in a patriarchal British society. While this book is more simplistic than Austen's own novels, it picks up on similar themes (e.g., love, class system, family). Austen aficionados will be happy to find a well-drawn, strong-willed heroine.
234 pp.
| Candlewick
| June, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-7636-2994-4$15.99
(3)
YA
Sixteen-year-old Mary elopes with an older (and married) poet, forsaking her family to bear his child. But her passionate life of ideals is undercut with a darkness that erupts in scandal, heartbreak, and the nightmarish imaginings that will become Frankenstein. Rather than developing its historical underpinnings, this dramatic reinvention of Mary Shelley's life explores the Romantic concepts of love and creation.