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Cover of Old Friends and New Fancies, by Sybil Brinton, considered to be the first work of Austen fan-fiction.(1913) Pride & Prejudice-fiction Jane Austen fan fiction is the collection of numerous sequels and spin-offs produced by authors who have either used the plot of Austen's original novels, or have extended them, to produce new works of fiction.
It is the largest online Jane Austen fansite and had an average of 8 million to 10 million hits per month as of 2007. [2] In 2000, there were one million page views of its fan-fiction area each year, and most of their fanfic authors are female. [3] Stories based on Pride and Prejudice dominate the site as it is the most popular Austen work. [3]
Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (1913) is a novel by Sybil G. Brinton that is often acknowledged to be the first sequel to the works of Jane Austen and as such is possibly the first piece of published Austen fan fiction, [1] although earlier examples have been described by Sarah Glosson. [2]
Alison Sweeney is a self-proclaimed “huge” Jane Austen fan, but it wasn’t until she watched Keri Russell’s Austenland that her fandom sparked a Hallmark Channel movie about the author.
Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the BBC’s 1995 TV series ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which catapulted Colin Firth to fame.
Pamela Aidan was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, United States.She has a master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been a librarian for over 30 years.
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She began her writing career in 2001 [3] by posting her novels on Jane Austen fan fiction sites on the internet, and later self-publishing them. Her works were discovered by an editor at Sourcebooks who purchased the rights to her first six books. [ 4 ]
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