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Considering George: Being a sequel to Miss Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Two Gentlemen Friends
A couple of years ago, we sat down and wondered why George Wickham, with all his privileges in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, would turn out to be such a conflicted guy who made so many bad decisions and was full of resentment. We thought of our own lives, and it became when Considering George, we find he has all the peripheral disturbing attributes of, not all, but so many Gay men of any generation. Unrequited love, poor life choices, and all the internalized affects of oppression. It was grave indeed in early 19th century England when a man could be executed for his romantic interests. But alas, we are still seeing such horrible homophobia today in many parts of the world. Strides we have made, even Gay marriage, but the battle is far from won. Many still suffer. In Considering George, we give young Mr. Wickham a chance to explain himself, discover himself, and find a lasting love. The transformation comes with a child—and the man with whom he will share his life. "Grahame and Seale capture Jane Austin's world so expertly that one frequently forgets one is not reading a work by Austin herself. A heroic evocation of the struggle of individuals in a straitened and at times suffocating society to find and be true to themselves.” —Rand Lee, acclaimed author of numerous works of fantasy and science fiction.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2017
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July 27, 2022
Absolutely loved this book. Have been reading a few m/m versions of Persuasion and stumbled across this book.
Perfection.
Perfection.
October 19, 2023
This review of “Considering George: Being a Sequel to Miss Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ a Novel by Two Gentlemen Friends” is by necessity partially a commentary on my own connection with one of the authors, Peter Grahame. I met Peter in June of 2010, when I was visiting family in Albuquerque, NM. Actually, I made contact with him before my trip, in order to collect a copy of his previous book of photographs and commentary, “Contempations of the Heart”, which he was offering as an incentive to donors to Kittredge Cherry’s “Jesus in Love” website (now QSpirit). Already being a supporter of Cherry’s extraordinary work, I decided to take advantage of the offer, and since I was on a visit to my hometown from my (at that time) residence in Atlanta, GA, I went to Grahame’s studio.
Several years later, in 2014, I moved back to Albuquerque. Regretfully, at that time, I didn’t attempt to renew contact with Peter Grahame. It was my understanding that he and his life companion and co-author, Henry Seale, had moved out of the city, and my own family circumstances did not encourage me to do much traveling or out-of-the-neighborhood visiting. However, recently, a synchronous series of connections led me to discover this new book, at a very affordable price both on Kindle and in paperbound format, and I ordered it. Before I began reading it, however, a Facebook “memories” posting brought back up my original post from 2010 when I visited Peter and received my “reward” book. That photo is the one I’ve shown here.
This doesn’t end the saga, however, because in back-and-forth conversation, also on Social Media, Kittredge Cherry and I discussed our mutual association with Grahame, and almost immediately she discovered that he had in fact passed away only a few days prior to my posting of the “memory”. I subsequently discovered that Henry Seale was likewise no longer with us, having died in 2019. So I immediately began to read this delightful novel and found it absolutely wonderful. It has motivated me to go back and read the Jane Austen novel to which it is the sequel, and I am fully anticipating that introduction to a classic which, I blushingly admit, I have never read. When I have done so, I believe I’ll be able to more fully appreciate the way in which this novel has, as the authors assert, more fully interpreted the character of George Wickham and given a plausible explanation for the extreme reaction of Fitzwiliam Darcy.
This story is well-executed, and of course would be an excellent stand-alone novel investigating the extreme rejection of male homosexual relationships in early 19th Century England, written as it is by a committed male couple in the beginning of the 21st Century. I couldn’t find an exact publication date, but the earliest review I saw on Amazon is dated 2016, so I’m assuming it was perhaps written just about the time of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Since there is so much threat of reversion to the extreme homophobia of earlier eras, perhaps this posthumous review will encourage much wider circulation of this very relevant and timely book.
Several years later, in 2014, I moved back to Albuquerque. Regretfully, at that time, I didn’t attempt to renew contact with Peter Grahame. It was my understanding that he and his life companion and co-author, Henry Seale, had moved out of the city, and my own family circumstances did not encourage me to do much traveling or out-of-the-neighborhood visiting. However, recently, a synchronous series of connections led me to discover this new book, at a very affordable price both on Kindle and in paperbound format, and I ordered it. Before I began reading it, however, a Facebook “memories” posting brought back up my original post from 2010 when I visited Peter and received my “reward” book. That photo is the one I’ve shown here.
This doesn’t end the saga, however, because in back-and-forth conversation, also on Social Media, Kittredge Cherry and I discussed our mutual association with Grahame, and almost immediately she discovered that he had in fact passed away only a few days prior to my posting of the “memory”. I subsequently discovered that Henry Seale was likewise no longer with us, having died in 2019. So I immediately began to read this delightful novel and found it absolutely wonderful. It has motivated me to go back and read the Jane Austen novel to which it is the sequel, and I am fully anticipating that introduction to a classic which, I blushingly admit, I have never read. When I have done so, I believe I’ll be able to more fully appreciate the way in which this novel has, as the authors assert, more fully interpreted the character of George Wickham and given a plausible explanation for the extreme reaction of Fitzwiliam Darcy.
This story is well-executed, and of course would be an excellent stand-alone novel investigating the extreme rejection of male homosexual relationships in early 19th Century England, written as it is by a committed male couple in the beginning of the 21st Century. I couldn’t find an exact publication date, but the earliest review I saw on Amazon is dated 2016, so I’m assuming it was perhaps written just about the time of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Since there is so much threat of reversion to the extreme homophobia of earlier eras, perhaps this posthumous review will encourage much wider circulation of this very relevant and timely book.
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