![]() ![]() In contrast, a full length portrait of Sir Henry Denham dominates the room even though he only left her a title. He is only remembered by a miniature in the sitting room. “Every neighborhood should have a great lady, ” Jane Austen wrote, introducing the twice widowed Lady Denham. It Is an obsession that he shares with his neighbor, Lady Denham. Thomas Parker is determined to develop his beloved Sussex town into a coastal resort. The adult members of the Parker family, Lady Denham, and a young visitor named Charlotte are the main characters of A Completion of Sanditon. I liked the imitation of Austen’s convoluted sentence style, the humorous comments on the quirks of the main characters, and the early hint of new characters that appear later in the novel. Her goal was to “resolve the mysteries of Sanditon” while remaining “faithful to Jane Austen”. ![]() Juliette Shapiro, the author of A Completion of Sanditon, has meticulously scrutinized this fragment for those clues. However, Austen had set the scene, named over fifty characters, announced the heroine and scattered a score of clues which she planned to develop throughout the story. ![]() Jane Austen was no longer physically able to continue the draft that we know as Sanditon. Here, after 26,000 promising words, the fragment stops. ![]() Hollis! It was impossible not to feel him hardly used: to be obliged to stand back in his own house and see the best place occupied by Sir Henry Denham!” ![]()
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