Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed

Jane Austen / Joan Aiken

ISBN 10: 0575062711 / ISBN 13: 9780575062719

Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1996

Dust jacket: Fading to spine. Small mark to upper edge of rear cover. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: First printing. Blue cloth binding. First class condition throughout. Jane Austen's abandoned novel The Watsons, completed by Joan Aiken. An excellent example. Overall book condition is Fine. Size: 5.5 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm). Seller Inventory # 1221A026

Synopsis:

The fourth of Joan Aiken's "Jane Austen entertainments", this story follows "Mansfield Revisited", "Jane Fairfax" and "Eliza's Daughter". It describes the fortunes of 19-year-old Emma who, after being adopted by her aunt after her mother's death, has rejoined her ailing father and sister Elizabeth.

About the Author: Joan Aiken, English-born daughter of American poet Conrad Aiken, began her writing career in the 1950s. Working for Argosy magazine as a copy editor but also as the anonymous author of articles and stories to fill up their pages, she was adept at inventing a wealth of characters and fantastic situations, and went on to produce hundreds of stories for Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Vanity Fair and many other magazines. Some of those early stories became novels, such as The Silence of Herondale, first published fifty years ago in 1964. Although her first agent famously told her to stick to short stories, saying she would never be able to sustain a full-length novel, Joan Aiken went on to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Whispering Mountain, and the Edgar Alan Poe award for her adult novel Night Fall. Her best known children's novel, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, was acclaimed by Time magazine as 'a genuine small masterpiece'. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature, and although best known as a children's writer, Joan Aiken wrote many adult novels, both modern and historical, with her trademark wit and verve. Many have a similar gothic flavour to her children's writing, and were much admired by readers and critics alike. As she said 'The only difference I can see is that children's books have happier endings than those for adults.' You have been warned . . .

Bibliographic Details

Title: Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardback. Printed pages: 221
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition.