· Longbourn by Jo Baker – review Jo Baker's retelling of Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective will please Austen fans and novices alike Servants in London, Author: Hannah Rosefield. English author Jo Baker’s novel Longbourn () is a retelling of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice told from the perspective of the servants at the Bennet family's Longbourn estate, where much of the original novel takes place. · Baker adds some new characters to the Austen pantheon, with considerable success. “Longbourn” is delightfully audacious; after all, Jane Austen is a very tough act to www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.
Longbourn: Directed by Sharon Maguire. With Agnes O'Casey, Harry Lawtey. The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride Prejudice.'. LONGBOURN By Jo Baker Alfred A. Knopf, $, pages. You could fill a bookcase with prequels, sequels and other reworkings of Jane Austen's novels. If you added unfinished works such as. Longbourn is a profound exploration of injustice, of poverty and dependence, of loyalty a novel that contrives both to provoke the intellect and, ultimately, to stop the heart * Guardian * Jo Baker gives us the story from the servants' perspectives and pulls off the seemingly impossible: a completely fresh take on Jane Austen. Utterly engrossing.
Baker adds some new characters to the Austen pantheon, with considerable success. “Longbourn” is delightfully audacious; after all, Jane Austen is a very tough act to follow. Longbourn by Jo Baker – review Jo Baker's retelling of Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective will please Austen fans and novices alike Servants in London, Jo Baker is the author of six novels, most recently Longbourn and A Country Road, A Tree. She has also written for BBC Radio 4, and her short stories have been included in a number of anthologies. She lives in Lancaster, England, with her husband, the playwright and screenwriter Daragh Carville, and their two children.
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