A Private Performance: A Sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Helen Halstea (2005)
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Overview: Imitation might well be the most sincere form of flattery, but it is also the most difficult. The problem with Jane Austen is that she understood flattery only too well. Austen would not be Austen if it were possible to emulate her prose.
Helen Halstead has set herself an impossible challenge. A Private Performance offers itself as a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, carrying the story down to London where Miss Bennet, now Mrs Darcy, has not been entirely cured of her flaws of character.
More than 20 sequels to Pride and Prejudice have been published, not including modern versions such as Bridget Jones’s Diary. Halstead’s is by no means the worst. It has a measure of Austen’s muted vitality, even if the prose is more gloss than pastels. It shares with Austen a sense of proportion in human relationships. But it is more overt. Austen was explicit only about money. That’s why her work ripples with sex.
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