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The Hidden Hearts: Reimagined Classic Stories Inspired by Jane Austen
Paperback
Series: Courts & Colonies
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into a world where Jane Austen's beloved heroines are reborn across the glittering courts and complex hierarchies of the colonial world. In The Hidden Hearts of Jane Austen, three iconic tales-Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Lady Susan-are exquisitely reimagined in 18th and 19th-century Singapore, Jamaica, and Kashmir.
These retellings retain Austen's wit and insight while threading new themes of race, empire, and cultural duality into the narratives of upper-class women navigating the sharp edges of high society. From tea houses beneath silk-draped verandas to Gothic ruins on sugar plantations and Urdu love letters exchanged behind jali screens, this volume reclaims the voices of women whose elegance and cunning once went unrecorded.
Featuring:
Emma: A Society of Secrets - A Straits Chinese heiress plays matchmaker in British-occupied Singapore, until her games unravel in a world ruled by whispers and inheritance.
Northanger Abbey: Catherine of the Cane Fields - A free-colored girl from post-emancipation Jamaica uncovers truth, trauma, and Caribbean ghosts in a crumbling plantation estate.
Begum Saira (inspired by Lady Susan) - A sharp-tongued Kashmiri widow plays a dangerous game of affection and ambition in the salons of British-ruled Lahore.
Lavishly imagined and historically grounded, The Hidden Hearts of Jane Austen is a romantic and revolutionary reinvention of the literary canon-where women of the colonies don't just survive society. They outwit it.
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