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Margaret C. Sullivan

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I'm an author, but I'm a reader, too, and my reviews here are from a reader's perspective. I love Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer and don't really consider genre when I'm choosing a book, so my list will be eclectic! ...more

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Are you planning to write more books? If so, about what? I loved the Jane Austen covers book. :)

Margaret C. Sullivan Hi, Kirk! I apologize for not having seen this before.

You can read my answer to Amy Dashwood above...I'm working on several things, off and on, mostly…moreHi, Kirk! I apologize for not having seen this before.

You can read my answer to Amy Dashwood above...I'm working on several things, off and on, mostly off! I need to stop being lazy and get to work! They are all fiction, and most are inspired by Jane Austen, at this time mostly Northanger Abbey. Everything I'm working on now is fiction. That is really my main interest--the two non-fiction books sort of fell in my lap. But I really want to concentrate on the fiction now.(less)

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*hyperventilates because you're accepting questions* *tries to calm self down and ask a reasonable, mature question* Um um um do you have another book in the works by any chance and if so can we hear something about it and also do you know when it might come out? (also I am a huge fan and making an idiot of myself right now, okay bye)

Margaret C. Sullivan Wow...how did I not see these before? Yikes. Okay! I will answer now!

I am always planning to write more books. Like Emma Woodhouse, I have very good l…moreWow...how did I not see these before? Yikes. Okay! I will answer now!

I am always planning to write more books. Like Emma Woodhouse, I have very good lists and excellent intentions. I also have a full-time job and other interests and I'm trying really hard to finish one, I swear. ;-)

Everything I'm working on now is fiction. Some are Austen-related and some are not, though most of them are. The two that are holding the most interest for me at the moment are inspired by Northanger Abbey. So expect more Mr. Tilney. And his dogs. I am always interested in the dogs.

I would share some if I were closer to actually finishing something! I don't wish to raise expectations too much. It does motivate me to know people are looking for something, though. Thanks so much for the kind words. :-) I hope we still get to meet at the JASNA AGM in a couple of weeks.

Also, November is coming...though I've never managed to "win" NaNoWriMo yet. But there's a first time for everything.(less)

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	Sense and Sensibility by Margaret C. Sullivan Cassandra Chouinard Jane Austen, Cassandra Chouinard (Illustrator), Margaret C. Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 1,284,876 ratings — published 1811 — 2502 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World 4.02 avg rating — 2,006 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart by Laurel Ann Nattress (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lauren Willig (Goodreads Author), Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 1,749 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers 4.08 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Must Be Murder by Margaret C. Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Chouinard (Illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joy of Jane: Thoughts on the First 200 Years of Austen's Legacy by Tim Bullamore, Maggie Lane, Deirdre Le Faye 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers by Margaret C. Sullivan (2014-11-11) by Margaret C. Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Profusely illustrated (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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All of Heyer: These Old Shades

Whereas with these old Shades of mine,
Their ways and dress delight me;
And should I trip by word or line,
They cannot well indict me.

— Austin Dobson, “Epilogue” to Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Second Series (yep, that’s where Heyer got the title)

“He has Titian hair,” said Justin blandly. “Titian hair has ever been one of–my–ruling–passions.”
Chapter I, His Grace of Avon Buys a Soul

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A Man Called Ove

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I should be mad about how Backman manipulates the readers' emotions, but he's not really doing that. Ove's story is real in its joy and sorrow and humor and that's what makes you feel it so deeply. And there's just enough crazy h ...more "

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by Jane Austen

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Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

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“How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in their path, because Jane Austen said they will, and that's that? How to describe the exhilaration of being caught up in an unknown but glamorous world of balls and gowns and rides in open carriages with handsome young men? How to explain that the best part of Jane Austen's world is that sudden recognition that the characters are just like you?”
― Margaret C. Sullivan, The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

tags: jane-austen, literary-criticism, literature, regency

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“...we may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.”
― Margaret C. Sullivan, The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

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“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park