Eliza's Daughter : A Sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

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Well I think the author must have hated the characters in Sense and Sensibility to treat them this way. On the other hand, I liked the book more when I didn't think of it as a sequel but just a wholly unconnected book. The author could have written the same story without any connection to Sense a...

from AbigailAdams26

Being a great admirer of Joan Aiken's children's fiction, I quite naturally turned to her adult literature when I had run my course through all of Jane Austen's classic novels, and was looking for something more. Sadly, I did not find Eliza's Daughter at all successful as an Austen sequel, and my...

from Lesliejaneite

I read "Eliza's Daughter" by Joan Aiken while hot on a streak of Jane Austen sequels and otherwise inspired novels. Having been disappointed with most other modern writer's efforts in this genre, I found Joan Aiken's books to be much better than most. She never takes the reader behind bedroom doo...

from SharonGoforth

If you've read Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, you will remember that Colonel Brandon had a relationship with his ward, who had a child that he raised after her death. This child became pregnant by the one and only Mr. Willoughby, who later became Marianne Dashwood's f...