Lord Moira's Echo (Paperback)

Stuart Bennett

ISBN 10: 1494475197 / ISBN 13: 9781494475192

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Paperback. Jane Austen had at least a taste of London high life. In 1813 a barouche drove her around town in what she called "solitary elegance." Two years later, after a tour of his palatial Carlton House, she was invited to dedicate her last lifetime novel, Emma, to the Prince Regent. What if she had moved in such circles earlier? What if she had fallen in love? What if her banker brother, Henry Austen, had been caught in a web of corruption that did more than destroy his own enterprises? Lord Moira's Echo is both a love story and a tale of dark intrigue. It draws on unpublished archives to introduce an historical character who might have met Jane Austen during the very years when almost nothing is known about her. The story is told from two perspectives, Lord Moira's own, and that of a young Canadian musician, Vanessa Horwood, who was the protagonist of Stuart Bennett's previous novel, The Perfect Visit. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lord Moira's Echo (Paperback)
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1494475197
• ISBN 13: 9781494475192
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Jane Austen had at least a taste of London high life. In 1813 a barouche drove her around town in what she called “solitary elegance.” Two years later, after a tour of his palatial Carlton House, she was invited to dedicate her last lifetime novel, Emma, to the Prince Regent. What if she had moved in such circles earlier? What if she had fallen in love? What if her banker brother, Henry Austen, had been caught in a web of corruption that did more than destroy his own enterprises? Lord Moira’s Echo is both a love story and a tale of dark intrigue. It draws on unpublished archives to introduce an historical character who might have met Jane Austen during the very years when almost nothing is known about her. The story is told from two perspectives, Lord Moira’s own, and that of a young Canadian musician, Vanessa Horwood, who was the protagonist of Stuart Bennett’s previous novel, The Perfect Visit.

About the Author

Stuart Bennett is an antiquarian bookseller in Charleston, South Carolina specializing in, among other things, English literature, social history, and children’s books printed before 1850. He became a Christie’s auctioneer in London in 1976, started his own rare book business in 1980, and more recently served as president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America from 2008-2010. In addition to his novels The Perfect Visit (2011) and Lord Moira’s Echo (2014), he is author of the Christie’s Collectors’ Guide How to Buy Photographs (1987), Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles (2004), and many publications on early photography, auctions and auctioneers, and rare books.