The Jane Austen Children’s Collection
The Jane Austen Children’s Collection is the ideal box set for little introverted bookworms with romantic Regency hearts!
- Pride and Prejudice (Mrs Bennet is desperate to find rich husbands for her daughters, and Mr Darcy seems to have even more pride than money, and nobody likes him , including Elizabeth!)
- Emma (a clever and confident woman believes she can find the perfect husband for new friend Harriet, but realises she may not understand people as much as she thought).
- Northanger Abbey (Catherine wants to be like heroines from books, and on a trip away she gets her chance, when finding friendship at a spooky abbey).
- Mansfield Park (Fanny is sent to live with rich relatives, and not fitting in is grateful for the friendship of her cousin Edmund, but years later, the arrival of Henry and Mary upset their quiet lives).
- Sense and Sensibility (Elinor and Marianne have different ideas about love, one wants to be swept off her feet, the other’s feet are firmly on the ground). But when their father dies and they are forced to move, will then even be room for love?)
- Love and Friendship (Laura lives a fairy-tale life, until a stranger knocks on her cottage door. Then her adventures (and troubles) begin).
Who was Jane Austen?
Born in Hampshire (where she is buried in Winchester), Jane Austen only wrote six novels, but her humorous observations on middle-class England still make her one of our most popular writers.
She spent most of her life in Bath, and died just 41 (likely from what is now known as Addison’s disease). Despite one proposal of marriage which would have seen her financially secure for life, she refused (some believe, because it would have be meant she had to give up writing):
And far from being a lonely spinster, Jane had at least five marriage prospects, who who in the end refused to settle for anything less, than Mr Darcy from her books!
