The Washington Post, July 16th, 2000
JANE AUSTEN'S CHARLOTTE By Julia Barrett M. Evans. 240 pp. $21.95 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a manuscript in possession of a good beginning must be in want of an end. Thus Julia Barrett has brought to a satisfying conclusion 12 chapters written by Jane Austen just before she died in 1817, and set in the seaside resort of Sanditon, where commercial development and self-help schemes flourish in post-Napoleonic Britain, a time remarkably similar to our own. But if the themes--and the follies--in this novel call to mind the year 2000, the tone is ever faithful to Austen's period. ...
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