Review—The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet by Natasha Farrant {+Giveaway!}

I’m excited to be a part of the blog tour for The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet.

New Jane Austen Writing?

Of course, I see something like this and I just swoon.

The “new writing” really ends up being just a “snippet” of her writing, and in fact only a “snippet” of one of her brother’s sermons – written in her handwriting – in 1814. But what I found interesting is what it says: “Men may get into a habit of repeating the words of our Prayers by rote, perhaps without thoroughly understanding – certainly without thoroughly feeling their full force & meaning.” The author, Alison Flood, points out that the subject matter of the quote in fact parallels Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, published the same year.