Only a Novel edition by Amy Dashwood Literature Fiction eBooks
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Only a Novel chronicles a year in the life of Elizabeth Markette, who is forced to earn her own living after the death of her grandmother. She travels from Philadelphia to London and secures a job as a governess, serenely believing that her new position will be just like one of Jane Austen's novels.
Only a Novel edition by Amy Dashwood Literature Fiction eBooks
From my first glimpse of it on Amazon's Preview, (achingly few pages...which is a good thing) I started to fall in love with Only a Novel and main character Elizabeth. Her realness, and relatability were delightful and gripping, it was so easy to slip into her Elizabeth's shoes and follow her on her exciting adventure...oh, and what an adventure.Orphaned, with no one and no where to go with a very small inheritance, Elizabeth Markette, decides to do something she has always wished. Go to England and become a governess, well maybe not the governess part, but to England, she must go and seek her fortune like so many of her favorite literary heroines...and await her dashing Hero to come fall in love with her, marry her, rescuing her from what her life has become.
To say the least things don't go as planned, but the delightful journey along the way had me laughing and crying and falling in love with all of her characters. From lovable Lavina to Rodney the stable-hand and his little sister...her small charges and that toad in the garden.
Amy Dashwood's sense of humor delighted me. She is supremely witty, and has a great knack at pulling out certainly literary references that enhance the readers delight at just the right places throughout the book. I really cannot say enough wonderful things about this book, but I fell in love with it and hope you will too.
Caution: this book may cause you to laugh out loud while reading it and make people clamor for you to read what is so entirely witty and entertaining
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Only a Novel edition by Amy Dashwood Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I really did like this book. The story was very good, very sweet, and it was very fun placing all the hints at various works of classic literature. Lavinia was properly vexing and lovable, Rodney was witty and charming, Mercy was sweet, and Elizabeth was properly Catherine Morland-ish. I really wanted to give it four stars (rating by Goodreads standards), but there were too many problems for me to do so in all good conscience.
My first issue was on the grammatical side. Often times the sentences seemed rather clunky. Most often I noticed this could be easily remedied by rearranging sentence parts, using a pronoun instead of a name, or adding in a comma.
My second problem was that the characters seemed, from time to time, to speak in a manner a little too old fashioned for the era in which the story takes place (1880's). This was especially true for Elizabeth, the main character, who was from the US. While I cannot say for certain about people of the UK in that time period, a girl of the US, no matter who she read and how much she read, would speak in a custom normal to her surroundings and era.
Third, I found the the constant book quoting and referencing in the first half of this book to be a bit much. I do realize that these actions were key to some of the characters and the overall story line, but, in the first half, there was so much of this, it started to become tiring. Thankfully, the second half of the book had a much more acceptable amount of quoting and referencing.
Also, I would like to have seen the time between Elizabeth's decision to go to England and her departure expanded upon. I'm sure there must have been some emotional conflicts in the selling of her childhood home, and all the things with which she had grown up. I would have liked to see this, or at least see her giving a sad farewell to her home.
Lastly, there were a few spots in the version (which is the version I read) where something had gone wrong with the formatting, causing whole sentences to be cut or blocked out, making me have to guess what was going on in those missing spots.
My dear Amy, I really did enjoy your book! And I do recommend to others the reading of this book!
And I think Amy stole a certain dress idea (see green with white roses) completely out of my brain without even realizing it. ;-)
A wonderful novel written by a great author. A beautiful cover on this book. I look forward to reading more from Amy in the future. I love it !
I am an ardent fan of Jane Austen, classics, and Miss Dashwood's blog. Therefore, I wasn't surprised that I greatly enjoyed this novel. (And I love that the title is an allusion to a Jane Austen quote )) I especially liked Rodney, the hero. (Although he would laugh at me for referring to him as such)
So, the four females in our house who are 14 and up are obsessed with period romances. They have to be engaging and clean. Well, after Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Edenbrook, and the like, we were thrilled to find this novel. It was wonderful! I will admit that I stayed up until 2 in the morning to finish it. I hope Amy Dashwood writes another book soon.
Only a Novel was a wonderful, excellent book.I started it, and I practically read it in one sitting! The story was well thought out, the characters well planned, and I am a great fan of the 1800s historical genre. I love the classics, and I was pleased with the references to Jane Austen. Elizabeth Markette was perfect; exactly like a heroine of an Austen novel; the character Lavinia hilarious and entertaining, Rodney was a very worthy fellow that greatly deserved the wonderful Elizabeth. The banter between Lavinia and Elizabeth reminded me of the relationship between Lucy Snowe and Genevra Fanshawe from Charlotte Bronte's Villette. This was a good read; I reccomend it and will certainly read it again!
From my first glimpse of it on 's Preview, (achingly few pages...which is a good thing) I started to fall in love with Only a Novel and main character Elizabeth. Her realness, and relatability were delightful and gripping, it was so easy to slip into her Elizabeth's shoes and follow her on her exciting adventure...oh, and what an adventure.
Orphaned, with no one and no where to go with a very small inheritance, Elizabeth Markette, decides to do something she has always wished. Go to England and become a governess, well maybe not the governess part, but to England, she must go and seek her fortune like so many of her favorite literary heroines...and await her dashing Hero to come fall in love with her, marry her, rescuing her from what her life has become.
To say the least things don't go as planned, but the delightful journey along the way had me laughing and crying and falling in love with all of her characters. From lovable Lavina to Rodney the stable-hand and his little sister...her small charges and that toad in the garden.
Amy Dashwood's sense of humor delighted me. She is supremely witty, and has a great knack at pulling out certainly literary references that enhance the readers delight at just the right places throughout the book. I really cannot say enough wonderful things about this book, but I fell in love with it and hope you will too.
Caution this book may cause you to laugh out loud while reading it and make people clamor for you to read what is so entirely witty and entertaining
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