I still like to contemplate the moment when Austen decided to make public one of the texts she had been secretly working on for years, to have it printed at her own expense, and even to renounce the idea of a pseudonym. As for the two novels published posthumously in a single volume, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, they, too, appeared without the name of the author, but with a note about Austen written by her brother Henry: an interesting example of how the living can both respect and, at the same time, violate the memory of the dead. The three other books that she published in her lifetime – Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815) – also came out anonymously. Sense and Sensibility appeared in October of 1811, in three volumes, with the sole clue: “By a lady”. And from that moment not only did I love everything she had written but I was passionate about her anonymity. At the time, I was enthralled by the great male adventure novels, with their stories that ranged all over the world, and I wanted to write such books myself: I couldn’t resign myself to the idea that women’s novels were domestic tales of love and marriage. Meanwhile, I read Pride and Prejudice, but it didn’t interest me. It was the surly English teacher who told us this, and I was tempted to ask why, but I soon abandoned the idea, out of timidity. But they don't understand that dining out and shopping trips can't heal.T he fact that Jane Austen, in the course of her short life, published her books anonymously made a great impression on me as a girl of 15. Now that I'm home, my parents and friends want everything to be like it was before I left. But when that day finally came, I had to leave him behind. My only solace was Mason-one of the other kidnapped teens-and our pact to one day escape together. The last time I saw the face of my abductor was when he dragged me fighting from the trunk of his car.
I received meals, laundered clothes, and toiletries through a cat door, never knowing if it was day or night. Locked in a room with a bed, refrigerator, and adjoining bathroom, I was instructed to eat, bathe, and behave. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescriptionīestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz's thrilling novel Jane Anonymous is a revelatory confessional of a seventeen-year-old girl's fight to escape a kidnapper-and her struggles to connect with loved ones and a life that no longer exists.
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