Jane Austen seems to get more and more popular each year. Whether it’s a new film based on one of her novels or a new adaptation that adds zombie violence to a comedy of manners, the six novels she wrote are constantly being adapted and reinvented. I’m constantly on the lookout for authors with a similar style or who can write a good sequel to one of her existing novels. While there’s no one quite like Jane, some of these authors come pretty close so check them out!
Original works similar to Jane’s novels:
- Indiscretion [2] and An Accomplished Woman [3]by Jude Morgan
- North and South [4] by Elizabeth Gaskell
- A Room with a View [5] by E.M. Forster
- The Corinthian [6] by Georgette Heyer
- I Capture the Castle [7]by Dodie Smith
Sequels, Reimaginings, and Retellings:
- Bridget Jones’s Diary [8] by Helen Fielding
- Mr. Darcy, Vampyre [9] by Amanda Grange
- Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife [10] by Linda Berdoll
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict [11] by Laurie Viera Rigler
- Austenland [12]by Shannon Hale
For even more books, see HCPL's Jane Austen Reimagined [13] list.
Flickr CC [14]: fully entrenched in jane austen geekdom [15] Photo by: jamelah [16]
- Romance [17]
