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Tea with Austen: A Historical Romance Collection for Charity Inspired by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any hot-blooded reader must be in need of a hero in a wet white shirt...
Grab your fans and parasols and join our party of Austen-inspired ladies and gentlemen for tea, scones, and the latest on-dit, in this collection with part of the proceeds going to Breast Cancer
Heather Scarlett
Alexandra Britt
Carrie DiRisio
Sharon Michalove
Angela Kady
Juliet Martini
Frannie Holmes
Riana Everly
Diana Lloyd
Emma Brady
Gabbi Grey
Kathleen Ryder
Cecilia Rene
Bianca White
Christina Alexandra
Clyve Rose
Alexa Santi
Lisabel Chretien
Grace Hartwell
MaryAnn Clarke
Grab your fans and parasols and join our party of Austen-inspired ladies and gentlemen for tea, scones, and the latest on-dit, in this collection with part of the proceeds going to Breast Cancer
Heather Scarlett
Alexandra Britt
Carrie DiRisio
Sharon Michalove
Angela Kady
Juliet Martini
Frannie Holmes
Riana Everly
Diana Lloyd
Emma Brady
Gabbi Grey
Kathleen Ryder
Cecilia Rene
Bianca White
Christina Alexandra
Clyve Rose
Alexa Santi
Lisabel Chretien
Grace Hartwell
MaryAnn Clarke
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634 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2024
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August 31, 2024
An anthology of very mixed quality
I enjoyed 4 of the stories in this anthology;
-"A Mistaken Impression" by Riana Everly which focuses on the time in Hunsford from Darcy's point of view. It was lightly handled with a little humour and a little romance and a focussed plot. This was a 4* from me.
- "Remedy and Redemption" by Anna Klein. There was a gentleness which I found appealing and, despite a couple of too modern words, I found it very readable. Again 4*.
- "An Honourable Man" by Angela Kady. This again had a clear plot and a rarely explored Pride and Prejudice pairing involving secondary characters. This was a 3* from me.
"Wooing Miss Woodford" by Bianca White is a Regency Austen adjacent romance and was another solid read, 3.5*. The cast list was managed well and the plot moved forward steadily without being rushed. I enjoyed this one.
In all honesty I really didn't enjoy any of the others. Some were rather poorly constructed with far too many characters in each story and with non-period compliant language. When Bennet or Pemberley are not spelled correctly it is time to put a book down.
I received an ARC from Booksprout.
I enjoyed 4 of the stories in this anthology;
-"A Mistaken Impression" by Riana Everly which focuses on the time in Hunsford from Darcy's point of view. It was lightly handled with a little humour and a little romance and a focussed plot. This was a 4* from me.
- "Remedy and Redemption" by Anna Klein. There was a gentleness which I found appealing and, despite a couple of too modern words, I found it very readable. Again 4*.
- "An Honourable Man" by Angela Kady. This again had a clear plot and a rarely explored Pride and Prejudice pairing involving secondary characters. This was a 3* from me.
"Wooing Miss Woodford" by Bianca White is a Regency Austen adjacent romance and was another solid read, 3.5*. The cast list was managed well and the plot moved forward steadily without being rushed. I enjoyed this one.
In all honesty I really didn't enjoy any of the others. Some were rather poorly constructed with far too many characters in each story and with non-period compliant language. When Bennet or Pemberley are not spelled correctly it is time to put a book down.
I received an ARC from Booksprout.
August 29, 2024
What an absolutely delightful and beautiful historical romance anthology composed of 17 novellas and novelettes that contain varying degrees of passion and steam that are historical Austen themed romance written by wonderful authors. I really enjoyed these lovely stories with delightful characters. I highly recommend reading!
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February 10, 2025It's been a while since I read it and I can't really remember the individual stories in detail anymore but I know I found it a bit uneven. I enjoyed a few authors' offerings more than others and a couple of stories I did not finish reading. Not that they were bad necessarily, it may have been a case of reader-book mismatch. I was expecting Austenesque stories, based on the title, but some of these had very little to do with Austen, other than the time period.
August 30, 2024
A Mistaken Impression is a rewrite of when Darcy proposed to Elizabeth.
An Honorable Man is after Elizabeth and Darcy are married his fictional military cousin Arthur and Elizabeth’s fictional cousin Maria stay at their house and fall in love.
In No Eyes But Thine, Beatrice is told that her correspondence with her childhood friend in the navy have been answered by another man Monty and she doesn’t know what to believe.
Medway Meeting is about a widow countess Juliana sponsoring the Dashwood’s fictional sister Margaret. The story was a bit strange with the butler’s son trying to press his attentions on Juliana and an astronomer viscount suddenly offering for her.
Catch Me, My Love is a take on persuasion but with new characters. Adelaide is a companion to her horrible cousin when she is reunited with her first love Edward. He soon discovers the truth about her missing inheritance.
In Mary’s Magic Carpet, middle Bennet sister Mary is arranged to marry wayward son Redmond. She’s not sure she wants to marry and someone wants to keep them apart but their relationship escalated quickly and the carpet referred to traveling to Canada.
Secrets and Swordplay is between George Bennet and Margaret Dashwood both made up characters. George has recently returned from being in India and was hoping to marry his childhood friend Margaret but she is engaged to someone else.
Wooing Miss Woodforde is a companion who suddenly comes into an inheritance. Her employer’s impoverished nephew rakish Jasper holds her heart but he needs to change his ways to win her hand.
As True as a Compass is similar to No Eyes But Thine in that Marjorie is also corresponding with a navy man who is not the one she was engaged to.
Arabella’s Duke is her brother’s best friend George whom she always thought she would marry but will she still want him when he takes in his half brother and sets tongues wagging.
A Match Most Unexpected is a take on Emma with budding matchmaker Eleanor trying to set up her neighbor and friend August when she realizes she wants him for herself.
A Moonlit Masquerade is where Emmaline meets a bold masked man she is instantly attracted to not realizing he is the shy boring Lord Marbury she is affianced to. Darcy and Elizabeth make an appearance.
Remedy and Redemption is about Darcy’s friend Bingley’s sister Louisa who had married for status and will only remarry for love and her godmother is matchmaking with her flirtatious bachelor nephew Arthur. Jane and Bingley make an appearance.
In An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady, Perry and Eliza can’t stand each other initially like Elizabeth and Darcy. Her aunts are Elizabeth and Jane and Mary is her mother.
A Wife for Mr. Weston is the story of how Emma matchmaked her governess.
Ladies and Schemes continues the story of wild Kitty Bennet who became an actress. She is asked by a lady to find an actress to turn her son’s head away from the lady he is fixated on.
A Sensible Gentleman is a gay version of the story.
I’ve never been a fan of the books that expand on Austen’s original works especially since they have a more modern tone that doesn’t match the original books. I prefer the ones that use her themes such as different classes, matchmaking, and past regrets, using new characters not connected to the ones in her books. As a result I enjoyed some of these stories more than others.
An Honorable Man is after Elizabeth and Darcy are married his fictional military cousin Arthur and Elizabeth’s fictional cousin Maria stay at their house and fall in love.
In No Eyes But Thine, Beatrice is told that her correspondence with her childhood friend in the navy have been answered by another man Monty and she doesn’t know what to believe.
Medway Meeting is about a widow countess Juliana sponsoring the Dashwood’s fictional sister Margaret. The story was a bit strange with the butler’s son trying to press his attentions on Juliana and an astronomer viscount suddenly offering for her.
Catch Me, My Love is a take on persuasion but with new characters. Adelaide is a companion to her horrible cousin when she is reunited with her first love Edward. He soon discovers the truth about her missing inheritance.
In Mary’s Magic Carpet, middle Bennet sister Mary is arranged to marry wayward son Redmond. She’s not sure she wants to marry and someone wants to keep them apart but their relationship escalated quickly and the carpet referred to traveling to Canada.
Secrets and Swordplay is between George Bennet and Margaret Dashwood both made up characters. George has recently returned from being in India and was hoping to marry his childhood friend Margaret but she is engaged to someone else.
Wooing Miss Woodforde is a companion who suddenly comes into an inheritance. Her employer’s impoverished nephew rakish Jasper holds her heart but he needs to change his ways to win her hand.
As True as a Compass is similar to No Eyes But Thine in that Marjorie is also corresponding with a navy man who is not the one she was engaged to.
Arabella’s Duke is her brother’s best friend George whom she always thought she would marry but will she still want him when he takes in his half brother and sets tongues wagging.
A Match Most Unexpected is a take on Emma with budding matchmaker Eleanor trying to set up her neighbor and friend August when she realizes she wants him for herself.
A Moonlit Masquerade is where Emmaline meets a bold masked man she is instantly attracted to not realizing he is the shy boring Lord Marbury she is affianced to. Darcy and Elizabeth make an appearance.
Remedy and Redemption is about Darcy’s friend Bingley’s sister Louisa who had married for status and will only remarry for love and her godmother is matchmaking with her flirtatious bachelor nephew Arthur. Jane and Bingley make an appearance.
In An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady, Perry and Eliza can’t stand each other initially like Elizabeth and Darcy. Her aunts are Elizabeth and Jane and Mary is her mother.
A Wife for Mr. Weston is the story of how Emma matchmaked her governess.
Ladies and Schemes continues the story of wild Kitty Bennet who became an actress. She is asked by a lady to find an actress to turn her son’s head away from the lady he is fixated on.
A Sensible Gentleman is a gay version of the story.
I’ve never been a fan of the books that expand on Austen’s original works especially since they have a more modern tone that doesn’t match the original books. I prefer the ones that use her themes such as different classes, matchmaking, and past regrets, using new characters not connected to the ones in her books. As a result I enjoyed some of these stories more than others.
August 30, 2024
Thanks to BookSprout for a copy of this short story collection, and this is my freely given opinion.
This is a really cute anthology of short stories that play upon Jane Austen's stories - some quite tangentially. Full disclosure, I did not read them all - this is about 600 pages and I only read the stories that caught my eye in this time period. They are all quite short, and all have varying degrees of connection to Austen's works - some directly involving characters or history from her stories, some just lightly inspired, and some moving them forward to the next generation. From the ones I read, they vary from quite sweet to much more explicit - though the majority of what I read weighted on the sweet side.
So far, what I have read has been quite cute and enjoyable with particular favourites being a sweet story about a Fitzwilliam cousin finally approaching the younger sister of Charlotte Collins that he has long admired from afar by Angela Kady, one set in the next generation, by Cecilia Rene with a young Earl Fitzwilliam with no game, trying to win over the affection of one of the Bennet cousins, but inadvertently raising her ire instead. Another I enjoyed was one where Miss Kitty Bennet grew up to manage a theater troupe and she and a young actress she mentors, are hired by Georgianna, now Lady Aston, to prevent her son from making a terrible mistake.
Overall an enjoyable endeavour, but to be enjoyed in bits and pieces, perhaps with some tea and cookies.
3.25 stars out of 5
This is a really cute anthology of short stories that play upon Jane Austen's stories - some quite tangentially. Full disclosure, I did not read them all - this is about 600 pages and I only read the stories that caught my eye in this time period. They are all quite short, and all have varying degrees of connection to Austen's works - some directly involving characters or history from her stories, some just lightly inspired, and some moving them forward to the next generation. From the ones I read, they vary from quite sweet to much more explicit - though the majority of what I read weighted on the sweet side.
So far, what I have read has been quite cute and enjoyable with particular favourites being a sweet story about a Fitzwilliam cousin finally approaching the younger sister of Charlotte Collins that he has long admired from afar by Angela Kady, one set in the next generation, by Cecilia Rene with a young Earl Fitzwilliam with no game, trying to win over the affection of one of the Bennet cousins, but inadvertently raising her ire instead. Another I enjoyed was one where Miss Kitty Bennet grew up to manage a theater troupe and she and a young actress she mentors, are hired by Georgianna, now Lady Aston, to prevent her son from making a terrible mistake.
Overall an enjoyable endeavour, but to be enjoyed in bits and pieces, perhaps with some tea and cookies.
3.25 stars out of 5
September 10, 2024
An Earl's Guide to Insulting a Lady
Cecilia Rene
Finally! I took the time to do something I've been meaning to for months – dive into Cecilia Rene’s work. And now that I have? I’m annoyed. Not with her, of course, but with me for waiting so long to read her prose.
An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady is as charming as it sounds. This gem is part of the Tea with Austen charity anthology set to benefit breast cancer research, and if you love a good enemies-to-lovers vibe with a dash of romance, this short tale is for you.
This Pride and Prejudice inspired reimagining focuses on Eliza Lockhart, a bold young lady whose world flips upside down when she finds herself in a fiery back-and-forth with the infuriating yet irresistible Peregrine Fitzwilliam. Perry, on the hunt for a wife at his cousin Darcy’s birthday bash, never expected to be drawn to the sharp-tongued Eliza. But if he can’t stop the insults and confess his feelings, he might just lose her to someone who doesn’t deserve her.
An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady is adorable. Rene has not only extended a world we all know and love, but also given Austen’s world a fresh twist with some unexpected but welcomed diversity. The characters are vibrant, their banter? Pure entertainment! If you love witty comebacks and sensual tension, you're going to devour this one. It's brief so you can finish this cup of tea in one sitting.
Cecilia Rene
Finally! I took the time to do something I've been meaning to for months – dive into Cecilia Rene’s work. And now that I have? I’m annoyed. Not with her, of course, but with me for waiting so long to read her prose.
An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady is as charming as it sounds. This gem is part of the Tea with Austen charity anthology set to benefit breast cancer research, and if you love a good enemies-to-lovers vibe with a dash of romance, this short tale is for you.
This Pride and Prejudice inspired reimagining focuses on Eliza Lockhart, a bold young lady whose world flips upside down when she finds herself in a fiery back-and-forth with the infuriating yet irresistible Peregrine Fitzwilliam. Perry, on the hunt for a wife at his cousin Darcy’s birthday bash, never expected to be drawn to the sharp-tongued Eliza. But if he can’t stop the insults and confess his feelings, he might just lose her to someone who doesn’t deserve her.
An Earl’s Guide to Insulting a Lady is adorable. Rene has not only extended a world we all know and love, but also given Austen’s world a fresh twist with some unexpected but welcomed diversity. The characters are vibrant, their banter? Pure entertainment! If you love witty comebacks and sensual tension, you're going to devour this one. It's brief so you can finish this cup of tea in one sitting.
October 3, 2024
What a lovely collection of Austen-inspired stories! I really enjoyed this anthology and discovered some new histrom authors in the process. So many stories had epistolary elements (I love reading love letters!) and the range of 'spice' was nice, though most stories veered sweet. Also, this was ideal reading for a time-strapped author because I could enjoy the stories in short bites at bedtime. Recommend for lovers of historical romance – and no, you don’t need to be familiar with every Austen work/character to enjoy. Plus this collection is for a cause near and dear to my heart. Do a good deed: grab a copy and enjoy.
September 13, 2024
I enjoyed these novellas and following on the characters based on novels of Jane Austen.
It was a bit hard to follow at first as this is the first set of historical novels I read but once i got into them it got easier.
Some of the characters were wonderful but some I found wanting for more about them. By the end of all the other novellas I was a bit overwhelmed.
For my first trip into historic fiction it was fine. I look forward to reading more.
It was a bit hard to follow at first as this is the first set of historical novels I read but once i got into them it got easier.
Some of the characters were wonderful but some I found wanting for more about them. By the end of all the other novellas I was a bit overwhelmed.
For my first trip into historic fiction it was fine. I look forward to reading more.
August 28, 2024
Great collection of historical romance stories from a different authors thus different themes and styles of writing to enjoy. Love that part of the proceeds from this collection is being donated to Breast Cancer Research.
August 29, 2024
This is a wonderful collection of stories. The authors have a true talent of working within the confines of the theme but still allowing their individual styles to shine through. The characters are wonderfully correct and on point. The plots are beautifully crafted. Truly an enjoyable read.
September 2, 2024
Tea With Austen is a wonderful collection of Historical Romances written be some talented authors. All of these authors are new to me and it was a treat to read these short stories. I look forward to reading more from these writers.
September 5, 2024
So this was an instering anthology to read. Really good stories apart of it. 5 star anthology. Will come back a later date to update my review for each story inside this anthology but I highly recommend it.
September 7, 2024
Tea With Austen is a wonderful collection of Historical Romances written be some talented authors. All of these authors are new to me and it was a treat to read these short stories. I look forward to reading more from these writers.
August 21, 2024
I love anything dealing with Jane Austen. This collection of stories flow well together. I enjoy reading the story sweet romance of each story
August 25, 2024
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. It is a nice collection of historical romances that approached the theme in different ways.
September 9, 2024
I thought that this was an entertaining collection of stories. There were a bunch of authors that were new for me in this bundle. And voluntarily leaving this review.
October 21, 2024
“A Sensible Gentleman” by Gabbi Grey (MM)
December 27, 2024
A collection of historical romances inspired by Jane Austen and her books. It has a mix of stories with varying heat levels, there's a little something for everyone here.
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