The Resource Longbourn
Longbourn
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The item Longbourn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Longbourn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- • Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen's classic--into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars--and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780385351249
- Label
- Longbourn
- Title
- Longbourn
- Statement of responsibility
- By Jo Baker
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- trueSocial classes
- Romance
- trueHousekeepers
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueRegency period (1811-1820) -- 1811 -- 1820
- trueRural life -- England
- trueFamily estates
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- trueFamilies -- England
- trueHousehold employees
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Regency, 1811-1820
- trueWorking class
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueBalls (parties)
- trueLiterature
- trueGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- • Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen's classic--into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars--and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide
- Summary
- A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sarah, an orphaned housemaid
- Award
-
- Library Journal Best Books, 2013.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2013
- New York Times Notable Book, 2013
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10218711
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Baker, Jo
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 930
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1775-1817
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Austen, Jane
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Romance
- Historical Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Longbourn
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780385351249
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Longbourn
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780385351249
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- trueBalls (parties)
- trueFamilies -- England
- trueFamily estates
- Fiction
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Regency, 1811-1820
- trueGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueIntrigue
- trueLiterature
- trueRegency period (1811-1820) -- 1811 -- 1820
- Romance
- trueRural life -- England
- trueSocial classes
- trueWorking class
Genre
Included in
- trueLibrary Journal Best Historical Fiction
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2013
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2014
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2013
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