# Please recommend a Pride and Prejudice sequel or "variation"
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**Created:** [January 8, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778 "2012-01-08T00:16:02Z")
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/1 "2012-01-08T00:16:02Z")
I have discovered this… er, sub-genre recently. There’s a bunch of 'em! I have recently read _Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife_ by Linda Berdoll and I will probably continue with its sequel, _Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley_. But I have also found:
_Conviction_ by Skylar Hamilton Burris
_The Darcys of Pemberley_ by Shannon Winslow
_Death Comes to Pemberley_ by P.D. James
_Georgiana Darcy’s Diary_ and _Pemberley to Waterloo_ by Anna Elliott
_His Good Opinion_ by Nancy Kelley
_Mr. Darcy’s Diary_ by Amanda Grange
_Mr. Darcy’s Letter_ by Abigail Reynolds
These are all available from Kindle. I have the samples. I haven’t read all the samples yet, but they seem to be all over the map stylistically.
And are there any sequels to any other Jane Austen books?
(And I’m not interested in any books with vampires or zombies or whatever. I’ve got _Jane Slayre_ already, and I’m guessing it’s a one-joke premise.)
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### Author:  [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/2 "2012-01-08T00:19:55Z")
I don’t have any to offer - I have only read _Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife_ :eek: but I would like to hear from anyone who has read _Death Comes to Pemberley_ because that sounds quite good to me.
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### Author:  [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/3 "2012-01-08T00:22:40Z")
It’s not so much a sub-genre as a whole industry. There is no end to the spin-offs, sequels, time-travel adventures, mysteries, and whatnot that reference Jane Austen. Some books just have “Jane Austen” or something in the title, which will guarantee it a place on the best-seller list. Usually they’re about P&P but I’ve seen some about S&S and _Emma_ by Joan Aiken. I think I even read _Mansfield Park_ from the POV of the ‘bad girl’ character or something, long ago.
I liked Shannon Hale’s _Austenland_ recently, but it’s not historical fiction.
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/4 "2012-01-08T01:19:06Z")
I’ve enjoyed _Pemberly: Pride and Prejudice Revisted_ by Emma Tennant. It picks up after the wedding and has Elizabeth learning to become the mistress of a great house and winning over Georgiana.
StG
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### Author:  [@ballardfam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ballardfam)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/5 "2012-01-08T01:32:34Z")
Pride & Prejudice & zombies. It’s actually pretty good. Maintains quite a bit of Austin’s tone but adds zombies on the loose.
Sense & Sensibility and Sea Monsters is entertaining also.
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/6 "2012-01-08T02:11:44Z")
Carrie Bebris has written a [series of mystery novels](http://www.carriebebris.com/darcy_mysteries.php) in which Mr. and Mrs. Darcy meet characters from other Jane Austen novels and wind up solving various mysteries (sometimes murders, but often not). They’re pretty entertaining, although the first one, _Pride and Prescience_, has the stupidest resolution of any mystery I have ever read.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/7 "2012-01-08T03:10:48Z")
If you’re willing to branch out into movies, I’m particularly fond of “Bride and Prejudice,” a Bollywood homage. Even my musical-hating sister the English teacher loved it.
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### Author:  [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/8 "2012-01-09T04:59:00Z")
I just finished reading Death Comes to Pemberley and I loved it. It’s written in the same style as Austen and a great mystery.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/9 "2012-01-09T05:05:00Z")
> [@Rahne\_McCloud](#):
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> I just finished reading Death Comes to Pemberley and I loved it. It’s written in the same style as Austen and a great mystery.
I just gave that to my wife for Christmas. The reviews have been quite good. Here’s one: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/death-comes-to-pemberley-by-pd-james/2011/11/30/gIQAqc21dO\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/death-comes-to-pemberley-by-pd-james/2011/11/30/gIQAqc21dO_story.html)
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/10 "2012-01-09T06:34:40Z")
John Kessel’s “Pride and Prometheus” in his collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. I think it’s still available for free download. The POV character is one of the other sisters, who meets a quiet and mysterious young doctor from the Continent. A great read, as is the rest of the book. The “society of Cousins” stories are amazing!
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### Author:  [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/11 "2012-01-09T16:17:04Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> If you’re willing to branch out into movies, I’m particularly fond of “Bride and Prejudice,” a Bollywood homage. Even my musical-hating sister the English teacher loved it.
There’s also _Lost in Austen_, about a modern-day Austen fan who magically switches places with Elizabeth, and she works her way through the plot while knowing everything that’s supposed to happen. Even she is surprised sometimes, though, for instance finding out that Darcy’s sister …
… is a lesbian.
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### Author:  [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/12 "2012-01-11T12:37:51Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> If you’re willing to branch out into movies, I’m particularly fond of “Bride and Prejudice,” a Bollywood homage. Even my musical-hating sister the English teacher loved it.
Oh dear. I’m afraid I loathed it enough to walk out of the theatre - the first time I have ever done that while watching a movie. Everyone else with me felt just the same. Just after the interval (this was in India, you always have intervals), we looked at each other, rose unanimously and walked out.
I happened to see “Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen” at the airport the other day, but I hasten to add that I did not buy it or even pick it up, as I have no wish to cheapen this already sordid industry, but I throw it out there as a data point to allow less discerning souls to exercise their choice! 😉
> **[Pride And Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen : Eckstut, Arielle:...](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Promiscuity-Lost-Scenes-Austen/dp/1841955825)**
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/13 "2012-01-11T14:01:24Z")
"Oh, Mr. Knightley… Mr. _Knightley!"_
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/14 "2012-01-11T16:23:38Z")
There was also _Mr Darcy’s Daughters_. My wife (a big _P&P_ fan) read it, but I don’t recall her opinion of it.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/15 "2012-01-11T16:35:37Z")
I am making notes. Thanks to all for your info, and keep it coming!
(Currently reading Darcy & Elizabeth)
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/16 "2012-01-11T16:50:20Z")
There’s “The Darcys and the Bingleys”, which I stumbled across at the library a year or so back. I wound up not having a chance to read it before it was due back.
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### Author:  [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/17 "2012-01-11T18:32:00Z")
Colleen McCullough wrote a slight (for her) but entertaining novel called _The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet_ that I quite enjoyed.
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/18 "2012-01-12T00:47:02Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#):
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> There’s also _Lost in Austen_, about a modern-day Austen fan who magically switches places with Elizabeth, and she works her way through the plot while knowing everything that’s supposed to happen. Even she is surprised sometimes, though, for instance finding out that Darcy’s sister …
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> … is a lesbian.
I saw that a while ago, and IIRC…[spoiler]… it wasn’t Georgiana who was a lesbian, it was Caroline Bingley.
Another change that movie made to the plot was that Wickham is actually a decent guy, and Georgiana pursued him and when he rejected her she told Darcy that Wickham “ravished” her.[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/19 "2012-01-12T21:33:26Z")
Worth mentioning as a fun read – Lost in Austen. It’s the book, and nothing like the movie. It’s written in a Choose-Your-Own-Adeventure style. You are Elizabeth Bennett and get to do things like decide whether she turns left or right at the path (one way send you on to Netherfield, the other has you immediately killed by gypsies!). You can accept Collins’ proposal. You can even deviate from P&P and end up in one of the other Austen stories. Cute idea and fun read, though nothing great.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/20 "2012-01-12T21:51:25Z")
> [@dangermom](#):
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> It’s not so much a sub-genre as a whole industry. . . .
Jane Austen bits even sneak into books as cameos. There’s a Jane Austen (-ish?) minor character in Snuff, the latest Pratchett book. It makes a nice little zing at the end of the epilog when it’s stated that, after a rousing bit of encouragement from Vimes, her sisters go on to various careers and she publishes a book titled:
Pride and Extreme Prejudice.
The spoiler is for those who haven’t read Snuff and would like to retain the zing.
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