Jane Austen July 2025 discussion

And here's thread to discuss what we're all planning to read for the readathon this year!

I plan to join the readalong of Persuasion and I also want to read Sense and Sensibility again.

2. I plan to read Sanditon: Jane Austen’s Last Novel Completed by Jane Austen and Another Lady.

3. My pick is Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods by Roy and Leslie Adkins

4. I have two books I plan to read: The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow and also The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley.

5. My choice is Evelina by Fanny Burney.

6. I am thinking 1996 Emma

7. Probably Clueless

Lol.... pretty about #1 as I've already read 5 of the big six this year(bookclubs!). NA it is! And no clue for the other challenge items.

Kristie wrote: "I plan to join the readalong of Persuasion and I also want to read Sense and Sensibility again.

2. I plan to read Sanditon: Jane Austen’s Last Novel Completed by Jane Austen and Another Lady.

3..."
I liked both the #4 books. And read #5 a while back but it didn't work for me.(#5 a very tough challenge for me)

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels
Pride and Prejudice

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
Sanditon

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature

Also want to read The Lost Books of Jane Austen

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book
Sense & Sensibility
or Sanditon

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen
Adeline Mowbray

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
I have to see what is available

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
I have found it, a 2001 film by Rajiv Menon based on Sense & Sensibility.

1. Mansfield Park- my last Austen and I am so nervous and excited!
2. The Beautiful Cassandra and her juvenilla.
3. Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsely and the Time Travellers Guide to Regency England
4. Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and either "What Kitty Did Next?" or "The Other Bennet Sister ".
5. Still thinking on this one!
6. Pride and Prejudice (2005) - Sense and Sensibility (2008) - Emma(2009)
7. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Hello everyone,

I plan to read Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Lady Susan. For the contemporary novel challenge I plan to read Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley and the Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow.
They are the only novels by Jane Austen I didn't get a chance to read. Looking forward to watching the BBC adaption of Pride and Prejudice and the Emma 2020 movie.
I will also join the readalong for Persuasion.
I am really excited about this year's Jane Austen in July reading challenge.

I plan to join the read along of Mansfield Park. After that, I’ve got 4 “retelling” so I’ll I’ll see how many I get to - Longbourn by Jo Baker, Jane in Love by Rachel Givny, The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow and Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson.
I definitely won’t get to all the prompts but maybe a rewatch of the BBC Pride and Prejudice min series and Bridget Jones’s Diary.

1. Persuasion
2. ????
3. The Mirror of the Graces; Or, The English Lady's Costume: Combining and Harmonizing Taste and Judgment, Elegance and Grace, Modesty, Simplicity and Economy, with Fashion in Dress by Lady of distinction
4. The other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
5. Mirror of the Graces will count for both (published 1811)
6. Emma 2009
7. Bridgette Jones’s Diary

Initial TBR
1. Mansfield Park - I haven't read this one enough
2. Jane Austen's Letters A fairly complete edition of her letters edited by Deidre Le Faye
3. What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
4. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough author of the 1970s smash hit novel The Thornbirds
5. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
6. 1980 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Fay Weldon. I'm a bit too obsessed by this. It's a good version and closer to the book that the 1995 adaptation (although 1995 is better TV and has a sexy Darcy). Weldon's experience of writing the adaptation inspired her to write an epistolary memoir of Jane Austen called Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
7. Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice

My tentative TBR:

1. Mansfield Park
2. Sanditon & Other Stories
3. What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
4. What Kitty Did Next
5. Lover's Vows
6. Love & Friendship
7. Austenland

I'm feeling pretty good about this TBR. Now to get through the 3 books I'm currently reading before July starts!

1.  Readalong Mansfield Park & Persuasion
2. Love and Friendship,  A History of England
3. Jane Austen at Home
4. Unmarriagable by Soniah Kamal--thank you Katie, for the recommendation! I've been trying to find books set outside of the US or England.
5. Lovers' vow
6. Persuasion(1995), Pride and Prejudice(2005), Mansfield Park (1999). I've never seen a Mansfield Park adaptation, and I'm curious. If I can easily find a BBC version of any of the 6, hopefully I'll watch that, too.
7. YouTube series: "Elinor and Marianne take Barton"  "From Mansfield with Love".

Tentatively TBR

1. Persuasion
2. Sanditon
3. Jane Austen's England
4. Persuading Austen
5. Helen
6. Maybe Pride and Prejudice. Depends what I can find on Netflix/Prime
7. Austenland/Jane Austen Book Club

I've been saving What Kitty Did Next for this! I am finishing up Jane Austen at Home so I am thinking about reading The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace because I love Lucy Worsley. This also might be the year I finally get to Longbourn as well!

1. Persuasion and finish Sense and Sensibility audiobook narrated by Karen Savage.
2. At least one volume of Jane Austen's Letters.
3. to be determined
4. Pride
5. The Mysteries of Udolpho (sp?)
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. to be determined
All tbrs are guidelines for me. I am a whim reader so, we'll see what I end up reading.

I'm "only" going to read Mansfield Park and Persuasion, since I'm taking part in an other reading challenge at the same time. Otherwise I have Emma, Pride and prejudice and Sence ans sensibility in my tbr waiting..

The Jane Austen books I intended to read are:

1) Persuasion

2) Pride and Prejudice (while also reading The Other Bennet Sister)

Currently, I'm reading Mansfield Park :)

I will be skipping a few of the challenges and bending the rules for challenge 5 :)

1. Mansfield Park and Persuasion
3. Jane Austen at Home (currently reading)
5. Shakespeare's Henry VIII (not a contemporary work but it is mentioned in Mansfield Park)
6. Northanger Abbey 2007
7. Austenland

I've decided to hold off on reading "Jane Austen at Home" for this readathon! ☆ So here's my tbr...

• Read one of Jane Austen's Six Novels.
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main Six Novels.
Love & Freindship - Jane Austen
• Read a non-fiction about Jane Austen or her time.
Jane Austen at Home - Lucy Worsley
• Read a retelling of a Jane Austen Book.
Death Comes To Pemberley - P D James
• Read a book by a Contemporary of Jane Austen.
Evelina - Fanny Burney (OR) The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
• Watch a Direct Screen Adaptation of a Jane Austen Book.
P&P, S&S, Northanger ect.
• Watch a modern adaptation of a Jane Austen Book.
Bridget Jones' Diary

I am hoping to do both readalongs,
Sanditon
Retelling - Unequal affections or The Other Bennett Sister.
Contemporary - Maria Edgeworth - Belinda
Non-fiction - Eavsdropping on Regency England
I haven't sorted out the watching part yet - more thought needed!

My plans to meet the Jane Austen July challenges exploring the Gothic:

1. JA novel: Northanger Abbey (NA) satirizes the Gothic
2. Other JA work: I plan to read some of her juvenilia
3. Nonfiction: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England Daniel Pool
4. JA retelling: instead, I will rewatch Death Comes to Pemberley then, if I have access, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies because they are video retellings that fit my gothic theme
5. JA’s contemporary: I plan to finish the last 2 of the 9 horrid novels mentioned in NA and published as The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection: The Mysterious Warning, A German Tale by Eliza Parsons and The Italian by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe
6. Re-watch the 1986 and 2007 direct adaptations of NA
7. Re-watch Lost in Austen, a modern screen adaptation of PP that humorously explores what happens when a heroine blurs the intersections of literature and reality as happens in NA

*Earlier this year, I read the other 5 horrid novels mentioned in NA: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Mrs. Radcliffe, The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons, The Necromancer; or, the Tale of the Black Forest by Ludwig Flammenberg, The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom, and Clermont, A Tale by Regina Maria Roche. I plan to read 2 more in June: Horrid Mysteries of the Marquis de Grosse by Karl Grosse, and Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath.

I think I will focus on trying to follow the Mansfield Park readalong, and for a contemporary (more or less) I will read Lover's Vows. To continue with the theme, I may rewatch every adaptation of this novel (Youtube versions included).
If I have time I could reread some Juvenilia and part II of The Madwoman in the Attic, but that may be too much.

1. Mansfield Park and maybe Emma
2. Lady Susan
3. Don't know yet.
4. The Other Bennet Sister
5. The Mangy Parrot, Abridged
6. 1994 Pride & Prejudice
7. Clueless

I'm hoping to participate in one of the two readalongs--there is an audiobook of MP narrated by Pippa Bennett-Warner I am particularly interested in (she was excellent narrating some of Zadie Smith's books).
I'm also planning to read Sanditon, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, and either Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos or Justine by Marquis de Sade.

My tentative plans:

1. JA Novel:
I'll be (re-)reading Northanger Abbey. This is the Belknap Annotated edition--although NA is a re-read for me, I haven't read this annotated edition before. I plan to read the annotations (by Susan J. Wolfson) while I'm listening to the audio read by Juliet Stevenson

2. Not a main novel:
I'll be listening to Lady Susan on audiobook, which is also a re-read.

3. Non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time:
My selection is Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book
Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility by Lauren Edmondson--I may read this ahead of time in June.
Although not a true continuation of a novel, I may read Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, too.

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen
Probably Evelina by Fanny Burney--it will go well with Northanger Abbey, as some of her works are mentioned in NA.

6. Direct screen adaptation:
Definitely time for a re-watch of 1995 P&P; I may watch Love & Friendship, too.

7. Modern screen adaptation:
Probably Bridget Jones's Diary--haven't watched that in a long time.

Looking forward to a lovely JA July!

My perhaps overly ambitious plan

Jane Austen novel

I plan to read all 6. I’ve read three before. Will see if this is doable or not.

Jane Austen non-novel
I have a collection of Sandition other shorter works.

Jane Austen non fiction

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan. I think one of the hosts mentioned in a YouTube video and it looks really interesting.

Retelling
I’m not sure. I may skip this one.

Contemporary of Austen
I have a book of short stories by ETA Hoffmann that I’ve been meaning to read because of a recommendation in a Great Courses lesson.

Direct screen adaptation

I really enjoy the miniseries of P&P.

Modern

Clueless

Michael wrote: "My perhaps overly ambitious plan

Jane Austen novel

I plan to read all 6. I’ve read three before. Will see if this is doable or not.

Jane Austen non-novel
I have a collection of Sandition other..."

John Mullan's book is so good, but you'll get more out of it after you've read all 6 novels at least once.

We'll see how much I get to but so far my plans are;

1) Re-read Persuasion
2) Watsons and maybe Love and Freindship
3) A Dance With Jane Austen: How A Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball by Susannah Fullerton
4) Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk, it's more a Regency romance with magic but my loan is coming due soon
5) Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, it came out in 1817 the year Austen died
6) Not sure which adaptation yet, might try and find the 90s Persuasion one if possible
7) Again not sure, I plan on watching Kate's recommendation video again and see what sounds good.

I don't expect to add five books to my TBR but want to do prompts 1 and 2 plus the screen adaptions. I have other challenges I'm working on and so... two Jane Austen books will be enough for me.

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels - Mansfield Park
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels - Letters of Jane Austen
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time - no
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book - no
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen - no
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book - TBA
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book - TBA

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels. I'll definitely join the Mansfield Park read-along because I would love to reread it next. I'll skip the Persuasion read-along tho because I am currently rereading it at the moment.

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels. I'll be rereading Sanditon for the first time! I was not too fond of it before but I hope it'll change the second time around.

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time. For this category, I am planning on reading more than one work but I'll surely read The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things firstly.

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book. I've decided to read a modern retelling of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. I haven't read any of The Austen Project books so this will be the first one I will be reading.

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen. The first book that came to mind is The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale by Lord Byron, published in 1813. This work was mentioned in Persuasion.

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book. I would love to have a rewatch of the 2005 movie adaptation of Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe Wright.

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book. I would probably rewatch Bridget Jones's Diary directed by Sharon Maguire, but I'm actually not quite sure yet. Kind of not in the mood of watching it but I might do it either way, haha.

I plan to join the readalong, read Lady Susan, Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century, The Other Bennet Sister, and Evelina. I will probably watch all of the movie adaptations of her books (at least the versions I own) and I think I will watch Modern Persuasion along with all the other movies based on her books that I own.

Though I am probably being much too ambitious, here are my JAJ TBR plans:
1 I plan to join both RALs, probably listening to MP on audio and reading my new paper copy of Persuasion.
2. I haven't yet read The Watsons or Sandition, so I'm hoping to do both.
3. I bought Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England, but I might not read the whole thing in July.
4 I'm going for Unequal Affections for this one. -see note
5. Like so many, I plan to read Lover's Vows to shed more light on MP.
6 I am still not sure. I have disliked all the post-2000 versions I've seen because jarring modernizations of the social code *=(e.g. unrestricted smooching, and that horrible scene when Ann Elliot gallops down the street chasing Captain Wentworth - Ugh!). If anyone can recommend one that is more reflective of the rules of the society of the time, please let me know. Otherwise I'll watch my copy of the '95 Persuasion. Lovely.
7. If I can find a way to get it, I'd love to check out the web series From Mansfield with Love. (I see it's on YT.)

Note - Though I had said I would read Unequal Affections for Challenge 4 I've decided to take the side track and read Miss Austen.

Really looking forward to Jane Austen July, although not sure I'll get around to everything on my TBR...

1. Mansfield Park, will join the read-along
2. The Watsons and Sanditon. Might also read some of Jane Austen's letters.
3. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
4. Miss Austen
Technically about Cassandra Austen, but I've been meaning to read this one for a while now
The Other Bennet Sister
Sanditon, completed by Juliette Shapiro
5. Evelina
6. Looking forward to rewatching the BBC's Pride and Prejudice, alongside,
7. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.
also From Mansfield with Love. Never watched this before but curious following Katie's recommendation.
Is it July yet?

Hello, I'm Peggy in the Seattle area. This will be my first Jane Austen July and I'm pretty excited! I will be reading #1 Pride and Prejudice in place of MP. (I just read that last year). #2 Lady Susan. #3 Jane Austen's England #4 Miss Bennet's Dragon. #5 Frankenstein #6 BBC's 2009 Emma. #7 Clueless

I can't sait

I can't wait.

I just posted my TBR video on my booktube channel
(Click here if you want to watch it!), but the gist of my reading plans are below...

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels.
I am definitely going to read “Northanger Abbey” because I wanted to read it last year but didn't get around to it. I'm also very tempted to join in the group read of “Persuasion”.

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels.
This year I'm going to be reading “Sanditon” for this challenge, and I'm quite excited about it!

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time.
I have the audiobook of “Jane Austen at Home” on hold at my library, so planning on that for my non-fiction pick.

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book.
Finally going to read “The Other Bennet Sister” after hearing SO many good things about it from everyone it seems!

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen.
I am planning to read a poetry collection: “Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth. Hoping I will have better luck with this than I have with some of the novels by her contemporaries from the time period that I have tried in previous Julys and not gotten along with so well.

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book.
After finishing Sanditon, I want to start the new miniseries adaptation of it and see if it lives up to the hype! I will also probably rewatch P&P or Emma as I always seem wont to do in July!

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book.
Bridget Jones Diary and the sequels... I have only seen the movie once years ago and am curious to watch the more recent sequel films.

I also have two other Jane-adjacent books that I am hoping to get to over the month of July: “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner and “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” by Laurie Viera Rigler.

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels
Northanger Abbey for the first time. I'll also be rereading Persuasion.

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
Lady Susan

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book
Either The Other Bennet Sister or Unequal Affections

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen
Frankenstein

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
"Sense and Sensibility" (2008)...maybe

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
For the moment, I'm planning on "Bride and Prejudice."

Oooohhh! So many options to choose from! I have decided on
1. Mansfield Park and Persuasion--my least and most favourite Austen novels

2. Still thinking about this one!

3. Still thinking......

4. The Other Bennet Sister---i am stoked about this one!

5. Shirley by Charlotte Brönte

6. Emma (2020) i have no idea how i havent gotten round to watching this

7. Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)

I'm soo excited, I hope I can actually read/watch all of these..

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels: Mansfield Park
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels - Lady Susan or Sanditon (haven't decided yet)
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time: not doing this one
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen: I'm gonna go with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley bc I've been meaning to read it lol and it was published in 1818, just a year after Jane's death
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Emma (2020) but because I haven't read the book, maybe I'll rewatch Sense and Sensibility (1995) or even consider watching the tv series for Sanditon...
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Austenland (2013) & definitely rewatch Bridget Jones' Diary!

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels

Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey (maybe, probably won’t get to it in July)

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels

Lady Susan


3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time

Courtship and Marriage in Jane Austen’s World (#2Jane Austen and Regency Life) by Maria Grace

The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England by: Margaret Sullivan

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book

Northpointe Chalet (The Jane Austen Series): A Contemporary Retelling of Northanger Abbey by: Debra White Smith
Central Park (The Jane Austen Series): A Contemporary Retelling of Mansfield Park
Debra White Smith

These are both on Kindle Unlimited. I will read one, and if I like it, I will read the next one.

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
OR
Pride, Prejudice, and other Flavors: A Novel (The Rajes Series Book 1) by Sonali Dev
(I will read one of these after reading the samples and then picking one.)


5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (ie, 1775–1817)

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794)

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book

1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book

Clueless

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels
I'd like to read both Mansfield Park & Persuasion. Definitely will read MP, because it's the only one I haven't read so far, so I'll start with it and see how it goes from there.

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
Sanditon and other stories

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
Jane Austen at Home

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book
I don't really like retellings, but I'll give Death Comes to Pemberley a shot.

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen
The Monk is sitting on my shelf for quite a long time now.

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
I haven't seen Mansfield Park (1999). But I'd like to rewatch Northanger Abbey (2007) as well.

7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
I'll think about it. I'll probably just rewatch Clueless if I don't find anything else.

1. Mansfield Park
2. Sanditon, Lady Susan, and The Watsons
3. Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
4. I have four options which I will start and then whichever catches my attention the most, I'll continue:
-Heartstone by Elle Katherine White (a fantasy P&P retelling with dragons!😆)
-For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund (a postapocalyptic/sci-fi Persuasion retelling✨)
-Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid (modern retelling with a visit to a Fringe Festival in Edinburgh instead of Bath)
-Longbourn by Jo Baker (P&P retelling from the pov of the servants in the Bennet household)
5. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
6. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
7. From Mansfield With Love (Youtube)

I don't think I will be able to read all the books for the prompts but I will make a go of it. :)

1. Mansfield Park and Persuasion (I have never read Mansfield Park and have only read Persuasion once.

2. Lady Susan

3. Can I choose a tea book with recipes and/or regency knitting for this? If so, then I choose Tea with Jane Austen: Recipes Inspired by Her Novels and Letters by Pen Vogler and The Best of Jane Austen Knits: 27 Regency-Inspired Designs by Amy Clarke Moore

4. Darcy Swipes Left by Courtney Carborne and/or That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy

5. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

6. Sense and Sensibility 1995 on Netflix

7. Bridget Jones's Diary on Netflix

Has anyone read Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton? It was written in 1913, and the cover says it was the first Austen sequel written. I read it about 10 years ago. It includes characters from all 6 of the novels. I enjoyed the humor, although it seemed a bit scattered, with so many characters.

Just wondering if anyone else has read this and whether they liked it.

For this year's reading:
1. I only have Emma and Mansfield Park as first reads. All year I had planned on Emma, but with the Mansfield Park read-along, I'm not sure now. I think I'll decide in July.
2. Lady Susan
3. The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
4. The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow
5. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads" published in 1798, or the 1800 version that includes more poems.
6. Persuasion (1995)- this is a rewatch and is the film that always makes me happy when I see Ciaran Hinds in other films.
7. Bride and Prejudice (2004) or Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

This is what I am considering at the moment.

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels: Northanger Abbey
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels : Lady Susan
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time: "The Real Jane Austen" by Paula Bryne or "Georgian London" by Lucy Inglis
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book : "Where the Rhytm Takes You by Sarah Dass (retelling of Persuasion based on the Caribbean Island of Tobago).
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Probably Emma the 2020 version
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Maybe Bridget Jones Diary

For anyone in the UK that may be interested, "The Other Bennet Sister" is £3 in the audible sale (until midnight tonight) and is currently 99p on Kindle (I'm not sure how long for.) ☆

Not sure how many of these I will be able to accomplish as my July will be very busy but will give it my best try!

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Love and Friendship
3. At Home With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
4. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
5. ???
6. Emma (1996)
7. Lost In Austen (2009)

Kathy wrote: "Has anyone read Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton? It was written in 1913, and the cover says it was the first Austen sequel written. I read it about 10 years ago. It inclu..."

Yes I read it, no I didn't like it.

Kathy wrote: "Has anyone read Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton? It was written in 1913, and the cover says it was the first Austen sequel written. I read it about 10 years ago. It inclu..."
I've read it too. Okish in my book.