Time Travel, By A Lady
We heard from Leslie Carroll, the author of upcoming Austen paraliterature about which we posted previously. Ms. Carroll said that the book will now be called By a Lady: Being the Adventures of An Enlightened American in Jane Austen’s England and will be published under the pen name she uses for her historical fiction, Amanda Elyot. The book will be released in the spring of 2006.
As posted previously, the book is about an actress portraying Jane Austen in a stage play who travels back in time to meet the author.
An earlier incarnation of part of the book was published on USAToday.com, titled Jane Austen Unzipped. “Many elements of the JANE AUSTEN UNZIPPED serialization are not in the final version of the [By A Lady] manuscript that will be published next year,” Ms. Carroll wrote. She also noted that like BECOMING JANE, the Jane Austen biopic currently in preproduction, the book has Jane Austen’s relationship with Tom Lefroy as part of the story.
