| International Standard Book Number |
9781250349606 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250349590 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250349591 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Jenner, Natalie, author.
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| Title Statement |
Austen at sea / Natalie Jenner.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
x, 304 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England and Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother and keeper of a long-suppressed, secret legacy. In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, have accomplished as much as women are allowed in those days. Chafing against those restrictions and inspired by the works of Jane Austen, they start a secret correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother, now in his nineties. He sends them an original letter from his sister and invites them to come visit him in England. In Philadelphia, Nicholas & Haslett Nelson -- bachelor brothers, veterans of the recent Civil War, and rare book dealers -- are also in correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, who lures them, too, to England, with the promise of a never-before-seen, rare Austen artifact to be evaluated. The Stevenson sisters sneak away without a chaperone to sail to England. On their ship are the Nelson brothers, writer Louisa May Alcott, Sara-Beth Gleason -- wealthy daughter of a Pennsylvania state senator with her eye on the Nelsons -- and, a would-be last-minute chaperone to the Stevenson sisters, Justice Thomas Nash. It's a voyage and trip that will dramatically change each of their lives in ways that are unforeseen, with the transformative spirit of the love of literature and that of Jane Austen herself"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Correspondence.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Austen, Francis, Sir Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sisters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Brothers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Letters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Booksellers and bookselling Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Transatlantic voyages 19th century Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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