HALLIE: You’re currently working on a seventh Mr.

HALLIE: She left behind a last, unfinished novel.ĬARRIE: Single, living with her sister and her mother, she was in the middle of 'Sanditon' when she died at 41, possibly of Addison's disease. But in those days people gathered together and read novels aloud, and sometimes when there were guests in the house her mother would read from her books-never revealing that the author was in the room-and she enjoyed seeing their reactions. 'Sense and Sensibility' was 'By a lady.' 'Pride and Prejudice' was 'By the author of Sense and Sensibility.' She didn't want her acquaintances to know she was the author. Austen! Do you think she enjoyed being an author?ĬARRIE: Remember, she published anonymously. HALLIE: Now I'm laughing, because I'm sure I'm not the only one who notices a distinct resemblance between you and Ms. And she captures human nature so well.ĬARRIE: (Laughing) So often I'll meet a person and think they remind me of someone I know, and then I realize it's a character out of a Jane Austen novel. Some of humor is subtle and some is biting. And you have a narrator's voice with wonderful irony. HALLIE: Jane Austen is credited with created her own genre which you, in turn, have adapted.ĬARRIE: She developed a style of third-person narration-free indirect discourse- in which you're right there in character's head using words that sound like the character's speech.

North By Northanger by Carrie Bebris