![]() ![]() I thought wouldn't mind, and anyway, she's dead." She imbued Austen's classic tale of one intelligent woman's search for love and respect with a contemporary voice, creating a self-deprecating heroine with whom young female readers identified completely. Fielding freely admitted stealing the plot of Pride and Prejudice, cheekily telling interviewers, "I thought it had been very well market-researched over a number of centuries. ![]() In the late 1990s Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary offered a fresh take on Austen's enduring themes and in the process spawned a new literary genre: chick lit. Rather, the novel should be seen as a worthy effort to pay homage not simply to Austen but also to Helen Fielding. ![]() Shannon Hale's Austenland might appear to be yet another in a long string of Jane Austen continuations, knock-offs and rip-offs - nakedly commercial books of dubious quality seeking to cash in on the Regency novelist's enduring appeal. ![]()
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