tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275601364462322391.post4727240149870300381..comments2023-08-11T05:18:30.759-04:00Comments on A Novel Read: Cassandra and Jane: A Jane Austen Novel by Jill PitkeathleyJehnie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01078499347093425758noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275601364462322391.post-2457640096785922182010-03-22T16:05:28.652-04:002010-03-22T16:05:28.652-04:00Oh as an obvious lover of Jane Austen I really app...Oh as an obvious lover of Jane Austen I really appreciate your feedback. I have not read much bio-fic about her. I've read all her original books and seen many of the films - the BBC being my eternal favorites.<br /><br />I think it must be very difficult at this point to find something original and yet still intriguing to say about Austen. She has been soooo studied in the recent past that I do applaud Pitkeathley for trying something different rather than another rehash of the exact same material.Jehnie Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01078499347093425758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275601364462322391.post-61490320553840084632010-03-22T15:34:10.629-04:002010-03-22T15:34:10.629-04:00I appreciate many of your points in opposition of ...I appreciate many of your points in opposition of this book. They obviously come from a well studied perspective of Austen & her life.<br /><br />I read this a year or more ago and liked it. It did irritate though, like you, that Cassandra was portrayed as manipulative and needy. She may well have been, though I haven't gotten as strong of an impression as Pitkeathley portrayed from the bios I have read on Austen. <br /><br />I had to remind myself several times while reading it that it was a bio-fic and this was the authors way of making the story more intriging. I would not discourage anyone from reading it. Just don't take it all too seriously. It is fiction. <br /><br />Of the bio-fic available on Austen, this is one of the better ones. I also liked The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, by Syrie James. Others had the same objections to it that you have to C&J. The author needed to embellish the story to make it interesting and that irritated them. This seems to be where bio-fics loose their way in some eyes.<br /><br />Thanks for your thoughful, honest and insightful review.Laurel Ann (Austenprose)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07569869772159241024noreply@blogger.com