# Please recommend a Pride and Prejudice sequel or "variation" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/21 "2012-01-12T21:54:20Z")
> [@RachelChristine](#): > > 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. Oh yes, I have this one. I keep getting killed! (“Be ashamed!”) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/22 "2012-01-13T02:32:05Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > 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: > … In Lauren Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series, Jane Austen herself is a minor character in one book (a friend of the female lead in Mischief of the Mistletoe, I think). That, by the way, is a fun series. Told from the point of view of a modern-day historian (from America) who is researching Napoleonic-era spies like the Scarlet Pimpernel (in the series, portrayed as a historical character). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/23 "2012-01-13T04:57:05Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Jane Austen bits even sneak into books as cameos… I read somewhere awhile back that Patrick O’Brian gave his hero Capt. Jack Aubrey the same initials as Jane Austen because he enjoyed her books so much. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/24 "2012-01-22T17:03:49Z")
Slight bump because I found out that someone I know (a high school English teacher) has been maintaining a list of _Pride and Prejudice_ variations on her blog for some time. She doesn’t provide summaries, but she does mark books she recommends. > **[Pride and Prejudice Variations](http://shabazzenglishdenisebooklists.blogspot.com/2010/12/pride-and-prejudice-variations.html)** > > Revised 1/25/12 This list will offer a catalogue of variations on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice .   Check back occasionally for update... ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/25 "2012-01-22T17:08:47Z")
Oh, awesome! Thank you! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/26 "2013-01-28T20:29:05Z")
Bumping the thread - today’s the bicentennial of the first publication of _Pride and Prejudice_: [http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/world/europe/pride-and-prejudice-200th-anniversary/index.html?iid=article\_sidebar](http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/world/europe/pride-and-prejudice-200th-anniversary/index.html?iid=article_sidebar) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/27 "2013-01-28T20:35:15Z")
AFAICT I haven’t seen anybody mention [Joan Aiken’s Jane Austen sequels](http://www.joanaiken.com/pages/janeausten.html). The only specifically P&P-connected one is “Lady Catherine’s Necklace”, but I haven’t read it and don’t know whether any of the more major P&P characters appear in it. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/28 "2013-01-28T20:38:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > "Oh, Mr. Knightley… Mr. _Knightley!"_ That would make him _Twice Knightly_. (I’m here all week) ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/29 "2013-01-28T21:08:02Z")
There’s also a youtube series set in the modern day. [The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/30 "2013-01-29T19:12:07Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > 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. I’ve read the first one, _Pride and Prescience_. I agree about the resolution, and frankly disliked most of the book. However, if you can find it at the library, the first chapter works very well as a stand alone short story and is very funny. Elizabeth Bennet plays hardball. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/31 "2013-01-29T21:11:49Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > 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. The same author has a few titles: [Elizabeth Aston](http://www.elizabeth-edmondson.com/edmondson/darcy-novels/) _Mr Darcy’s Daughters_ was due back at the library before I finished it and I wasn’t able to renew it because someone had a hold. I didn’t go to the trouble to place a hold on it myself to read the rest. I’ll read it eventually. I’ve read a lot of what’s out there. I’ve enjoyed a few of Abigail Reynolds’ titles but she does veer into bodice ripping territory which ends up disappointing me. I was given three of Carrie Bebris’ books as a gift and have yet to read any of them. Inspired by this thread I will make an effort to, at the very least, read the first chapter of her P&P. Also going to give the _Lost in Austen_ book a try. I watched the movie (series?) and neither loved nor hated it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778/32 "2013-01-30T06:54:55Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > And are there any sequels to any other Jane Austen books? If “sequels” includes “adaptations,” [_Emma_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma) was more-or-less filmed as [_Clueless._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clueless_(film)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-or-variation/608778.md?page=1)