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The winner of this prestigious fiction prize will be announced on October 6 in London. Six books are up for the award:
Fast readers have plenty of time to get them read before the prize is announced next month (she says as she’s just only finished last year’s winner The White Tiger a few months ago).
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Canada’s Globe and Mail from last Friday showcases four female authors who influenced novelist Jane Austen’s work. The article’s author, Susan Catto, who has a doctorate in 18th century literature from Oxford, suggests that the work of authors Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Ann Radcliffe, and Frances Burney may be successors to the waning Austen mania in popular culture.
In the next couple months, I’ll be writing about one of my favorite Austen-type authors, Georgette Heyer, who wrote prolifically (and wittily) throughout the 20th century about Regency England in her romantic novels. Stay tuned.
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