More new books for the new year
After our post from the other day, more new Austen-related paraliterature has come to our attention.
Amanda Elyot wrote to tell us that her novel By a Lady : Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen’s England will be out on March 28.
Our Janeite Spy also has informed us of two other books that she ferreted out, no doubt through some nefarious means involving no search warrants. 
Jane Austen in Scarsdale; or Love, Death, and the SATs by Paula Marantz Cohen, author of the delightful Jane Austen in Boca, will be released on April 4. From Amazon:
What would a latter-day Jane Austen say about love, death, and the SATs? Anne Ehrlich is a dedicated guidance counselor steering her high school charges through the perils of college admission. Years ago, when she was graduating from Columbia, her wealthy family persuaded her to give up the love of her life, Ben Cutler, a poor boy from Brooklyn College. Anne has never married and hasn’t seen Ben for 13 years-until his nephew turns up in her high school and starts applying to college. Can old love be rekindled, or are past mistakes too painful to forget?
Boy, that plot sounds AWFULLY familiar…
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith O’Rourke will be released on April 6. We believe this is a re-release of a self-published title.
We also found a listing for I Can’t Get Enough of Jane Austen. It’s unclear what the book is about but it doesn’t seem to be fiction.
December 30th, 2005 at 8:20 am
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen, at least this particular version (see below), is not a book I would recommend. It involves time travel, by one Fitzwilliam Darcy, from Virginia, USA, to Jane Austen’s England. It seems that our Jane was about to have sex with this strange man from the future, but he disappeared (back to the future). So, Jane Austen created a memorable hero by the same name.
— There is another book with this same title, written by a Ray Smith. I have not read it, but it is evidently set in Montreal, in current times.
February 10th, 2006 at 12:39 am
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