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Ideal for fans of Jane Austen and historical fiction readers who enjoy strong, warm-hearted heroines overcoming adversity with wit and creativity.
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See moreThe Youngest Miss Ward by Joan Aiken, is an innovative sequel to Jane Austen’s most controversial novel, Mansfield Park.
The Youngest Miss Ward by Joan Aiken, is an innovative sequel to Jane Austen's most controversial novel, Mansfield Park
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Harriet Ward, known as Hatty to her sisters, is treated with utter contempt by most of her family. Lacking the beauty that her older sisters inherited, she is left without a dowry to care for their ill mother once her sisters are married off.
Sent to Portsmouth to live with her rumbustious uncle and cousins, Hatty turns her creative flair to poetry and believes she must become a governess. That is until handsome Lord Camber passes through town...
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New York Times Book Review praises how Aiken encourages readers to see characters as Jane Austen’s heroines do: themselves from another perspective. The Times Literary Supplement commends Aiken's confident reworking of Austen's admired plots and philosophies. Publisher's Weekly notes that Austen herself might appreciate this sequel to Mansfield Park, highlighting Hatty's intelligence, warmth, and the challenges she overcomes to find happiness.
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ISBN: 9781529093056
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 January 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 310g
Pages: 448
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About the Author
Joan Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex in 1924, daughter of the American poet Conrad Aiken, and started writing herself at the age of five. Since the 1960s she wrote full time and published over 100 books. Best known for her children's books such as The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place, she also wrote extensively for adults and published many contemporary and historical novels, including sequels to novels by Jane Austen. In 1968 she won the Guardian Children's book prize for Whispering Mountain, followed by an Edgar Allan Poe award for Night Fall in 1972, and was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature in 1999. Joan Aiken died in 2004.
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