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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780553584073
ISBN number: 0553584073
Label: Bantam
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: September 27, 2005
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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It's with a heavy heart that Jane Austen takes up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the lost love of her life, she's stunned to learn that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, letters, and most intimate correspondence. From these, Jane is expected to write a memoir of the Gentleman Rogue for posterity. But before she can put pen to paper on this labor of love, she discovers a corpse in the cellar of her new home.
The dead man was a common laborer, and a subsequent coroner's examination shows he was murdered elsewhere and transported to Chawton Cottage. Suddenly Jane and her family are thrust into the center of a brewing scandal in this provincial village that doesn't take kindly to outsiders in general—and to Austens in particular.
And just as Jane glimpses a connection between the murder and the shattering truth concealed somewhere in Lord Harold's papers, violent death strikes yet another unsuspecting vicitim. Suddenly there are suspects and motives everywhere Jane looks—local burglaries, thwarted passions, would-be knights, and members of the royal family itself who want Lord Harold hushed . . . even in death. As the tale of one man's illustrious life unfolds—a life that runs a parallel course to the history of two continents—Jane races against time to catch a cunning killer before more innocent lives are taken. But her determination to protect Lord Harold's legacy could exact the costliest price of all: her own life.
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy is historical suspense writing at its very finest, graced with insight, perception, and uncommon intelligence of its singular heroine in a mystery that will test the mettle of her mind and heart.
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Once again Stephanie Barron has written a great story that sounds like it came from the pen of Jane Austen. This series is wonderful, and I hope she'll write a lot more books like this.
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Mystery and Jane Austen fans may rejoice in this perfect series of fictionalized murder mysteries. Based on intensive research of the author's life, but definitely fiction.
If you long to taste life at the time of Jane, this is your portal. The smells, sights and sounds of the Regency surround you immediately and you'll learn a great deal about Austen's life as well--the author drops considerate footnotes like tasty bread crumbs for you to follow into research of your own.
You just might get so caught up in the realistic descriptions, that you begin to believe Austen was the super sleuth Barron has created. Read them all. You won't be sorry!
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I have enjoyed every one of Stephanie Barron's fine mystery series and this book is no exception. In fact, this may be my favorite of the series. The mystery is well-written but, for me, this is not the true attraction of the novel--and it never has been for this series. Rather, I am always enthralled by Barron's ability to bring Austen back to life.
Barron's grasp of Austen and her world is phenomenal. Her Jane always rings true and there are many echoes of the sentiments and expressions in this series that let the reader know that Barron is truly knowledgeable about her main character. That Barron has a great deal of affection for Jane also comes through and Jane comes alive as a witty, intelligent, and fascinating woman who is also flawed. Barron's Austen is not above bouts of pettiness and impatience and Barron serves Austen all the better for it. Anyone who enjoys and reveres Austen will likely enjoy these books immensely for Barron does an exemplary job of making Austen real and giving fervent Austen fans what they most crave--more of the fine brain and insight that characterize Austen's works. If we cannot have more Austen novels, we are yet very fortunate to have Barron's series.
What really sets this book apart is the maturity that Jane shows. Barron has deftly and seemingly effortlessly written a work that mirrors the sometimes melancholy, often bittersweet, and decidely autumnal feel that characterizes Austen's late work Persuasion. Barron's Jane is not sorry for the choices she has made but has seen much and has such a keen self-awareness that she knows all that she has lost. Though Jane's relationship with Lord Harold Trowbridge is fictional, the details of her dependence on her brothers and her frustrated attempts at publishing during her lifetime are not and Barron gives voice to Jane's feelings on these subjects.
Lest I give Barron short shrift, the central mystery of the story is well constructed and engaging. Barron, like Austen, shows the reader the constraints of the class structure of the day and the lengths to which people were willing to go to climb up the society ladder. Jane's bequest is both a blessing and a curse for it brings her closer to the man she loved and lost but it also imperils her because it contains provocative details that could make or break some of society's most powerful. At heart, this is a story of greed and ambition and though it is set hundreds of years ago its themes are still very contemporary.
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Stephanie Barron has done a marvelous job, novel after novel, of bringing not only Jane Austen's world to life, but also the beloved author herself. Barron has perfectly imbued Jane Austen as a would-be detective, a woman whose keen intellect cuts through murder and mystery alike. "Jane and His Lordship's Legacy", the eighth novel in the series, is just as fresh and enjoyable as the ones that preceeded it.
Upon the death of Lord Harold Trowbridge, Jane finds herself the recipient of his papers - all his journals and letters are left to her in his will, in an effort that she may sort through them and write his memoirs. Yet there are plenty of confederates, and enemies, of the Rogue who would do anything to know what was written about them by Lord Harold. As if the job of protecting his legacy from prying eyes wasn't burden enough, Jane finds that she and her mother as less than welcome in their new abode in the town of Chawton. Indeed, when Jane discovers the corpse of a man within the house's cellar on her very first day in residence, she knows that someone is trying to paint the Austens in a negative light. And when the chest of Lord Harold's papers is stolen within mere days of her residency, Jane knows the murder and the burglary must be connected. As with all mysteries, another murder follows that confuses all of Jane's suppositions, and finds her racing to stop a murderer and to recover her lordship's legacy.
"Jane and Her Lordship's Legacy" is a worthy addition to the series Stephanie Barron has created. While she obviously takes liberties with Austen's life, and those of some characters around her, the majority of the storyline is based on established fact, and the created aspects are within keeping of Jane Austen. At times the language may be forced to fit or the descriptions befitting the time period become too bulky for the narrative, but on the whole Barron's writing vividly evokes Austen's day. It is a boon for fans who know there is no more original Austen works to be read.
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I would call this a "mystery of manners". It portrays, in a credible way, Jane Austen, her siblings and her fellow inhabitants of the village of Chawton. All strata of society have representatives in this novel. The historical characters are embedded in a mystery story which is fun to read. The made up character of Lord Trowbridge, as revealed in his letters, adds spice to the novel. Some aspects of the murder of Lady Imogen strain belief, but this is not a major negative.
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