Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner
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.
- File Name:austen-at-sea-by-natalie-jenner.epub
- Original Title:Austen at Sea
- Creator:Natalie Jenner
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9781250349606
- Publisher:St. Martin's Publishing Group
- File Size:6.109 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Copyright Notice
- 4. Dedication
- 5. Epigraphs
- 6. Characters
- 7. Map
- 8. Austen at Sea
- 9. Book One. Boston
- One. The Revere Bell Strikes One
- Two. In Which the Girl Orator Comes to Town
- Three. Of Some Satisfaction to Know
- Four. O Captain! My Captain!
- Five. The Pride of Peacock Academy
- Six. A Brace of Bluestockings
- Seven. City of Brotherly Love
- Eight. The Benjamin Franklin Effect
- Nine. Recalled to Life
- Ten. Persuasion
- Eleven. De la Terre à la Lune
- Twelve. The Sinking of the Admiral DuPont
- 10. Book Two. The Sea
- One. The Owl and the Vortex
- Two. Here Be Dragons
- Three. The Reluctant Chaperone
- Four. A Tale of Two Cities
- Five. The Staplehurst Rail Disaster
- Six. An Angel at the Table
- Seven. Platitudes
- Eight. Blood and Thunder in the Ladies’ Saloon
- Nine. Sense and Sensibility
- Ten. The Audition
- Eleven. A Secret History
- Twelve. Wandelprobe
- Thirteen. An Impassable Space
- Fourteen. In with the Tide
- 11. Book Three. Hampshire
- One. Meeting Fly
- Two. The Design of the Ancient Mariner
- Three. Pride and Prejudice
- Four. The Spoils to Divvy
- Five. A Man in Love
- Six. Tarpaulin Talk
- Seven. A Day with Austen
- Eight. The Walled Garden
- Nine. Midsummer
- Ten. The Crystal Palace
- Eleven. Mansfield Park
- Twelve. The Moon and Sixpence
- Thirteen. The Bequest
- 12. Book Four. The Court
- One. Reunion
- Two. The Stomping Suffragists
- Three. North and South
- Four. Runaway Bride
- Five. The Blue Antelope
- Six. The Door in the Floor
- Seven. Honeymoon in Hanbury Street
- Eight. The Clairvoyant of Cremorne
- Nine. Holding All the Aces
- Ten. Lost Horizon
- Eleven. One Tired Little Shuttlecock
- Twelve. Emma
- Thirteen. Mercury in Retrograde
- Fourteen. A Heartbreaker, Charlatan, and Thief!
- Fifteen. The Trial
- Sixteen. E Pluribus Unum
- Seventeen. All Remedy Exhausted
- Epilogue. Chawton Revisited
- 13. A Note from the Author
- 14. Also by Natalie Jenner
- 15. About the Author
- 16. Newsletter Sign-up
- 17. Contents
- 18. Copyright
Natalie Jenner
