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Mrs Bates of Highbury: A prequel inspired by Jane Austen's 'Emma'
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Series: Highbury, Book 1
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ISBN10: 1718160550
ISBN13: 9781718160552
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2018
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781718160552
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2018
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
**Lovingly-crafted and brilliantly executed ... the Highbury Trilogy is an outstanding companion and tribute to Jane Austen's Emma. Rich with comprehensive detail, thoughtful developments, and emotive prose. Austenesque Reviews.**
Well written, engaging, in-keeping with canon, and true to Austen's style and the integrity of her genre.
Well written, engaging, in-keeping with canon, and true to Austen's style and the integrity of her genre.
Allie Cresswell has the style of writing pitch-perfect and the plot was so like a Jane Austen novel. The manners and mannerisms of the characters were spot on.
Thirty years before the beginning of Emma Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen's fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed - but ready to love again. She is the lynch-pin of Highbury society until the appalling Mrs Winwood arrives, very determined to hold sway over that ordered little town. Miss Bates is as talkative aged twenty nine as she is in her later iteration, with a ghoulish fancy, seeing disaster in every cloud. When young Mr Woodhouse arrives looking for a plot for his new house, the two strike up a relationship characterised by their shared hypochondria, personal chariness and horror of draughts. Jane, the other Miss Bates, is just seventeen and eager to leave the parochialism of Highbury behind her until handsome Lieutenant Weston comes home on furlough from the militia and sweeps her - quite literally - off her feet. Mrs Bates of Highbury is the first of three novels by the CIBA award-winning Allie Cresswell, which trace the pre-history of Emma and then run in parallel to it.
Next up, The Other Miss Bates.
Thirty years before the beginning of Emma Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen's fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed - but ready to love again. She is the lynch-pin of Highbury society until the appalling Mrs Winwood arrives, very determined to hold sway over that ordered little town. Miss Bates is as talkative aged twenty nine as she is in her later iteration, with a ghoulish fancy, seeing disaster in every cloud. When young Mr Woodhouse arrives looking for a plot for his new house, the two strike up a relationship characterised by their shared hypochondria, personal chariness and horror of draughts. Jane, the other Miss Bates, is just seventeen and eager to leave the parochialism of Highbury behind her until handsome Lieutenant Weston comes home on furlough from the militia and sweeps her - quite literally - off her feet. Mrs Bates of Highbury is the first of three novels by the CIBA award-winning Allie Cresswell, which trace the pre-history of Emma and then run in parallel to it.
Next up, The Other Miss Bates.
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