When she steps into the carriage that is to take her on her wedding tour, Elizabeth Darcy is the happiest woman alive - until she sees the look of torment on Mr Darcy's face and discovers that he has a deep, dark secret that nearly destroys their love, their marriage and even her very life. Darcy, it turns out, is a vampire, and so is the rest of his family. They cannot be outside during sunrise or sunset. Lady Catherine, naturally, is at the source...

"At the heart of Jane Austen's story lies a mystery: how a woman of "genteel poverty," the seventh child of a country clergyman, an unmarried spinster for whom life was often a struggle against the indignities of financial dependency, could have produced works of such magnificent warmth and wisdom. Valerie Grosvenor Myer's flawless research proves Austen's books grew from the preoccupations of her social set - respectability, financial security, and...

"Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student"--Adapted...

Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...

In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races. She is unprepared for the drama that ensues when Francoise Grey, a raven-haired wanton, recklessly leaps the rail on her fleet black horse and joins the race.

"A biography of writer Jane Austen that describes her era, her major works--the novels Pride and prejudice and Emma, her life, and the legacy of her writing"--Provided by publisher.

A selection of criticism devoted to Jane Austen's "Emma" arranged in chronological order of original publication.

This picture book biography of the groundbreaking female novelist Jane Austen, recognized as one of the most important and influential writers of all time, is ideal for Women's History Month. Full color.