· Longbourn by Jo Baker – review Jo Baker's retelling of Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective will please Austen fans and novices alike Servants in London, Author: Hannah Rosefield. · Baker adds some new characters to the Austen pantheon, with considerable success. “Longbourn” is delightfully audacious; after all, Jane Austen is a very tough act to bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. Longbourn is the house in which Jane Austen set Pride and Prejudice. Jo Baker's novel is the story of the servants who washed the Bennet girls' linen, soothed Mrs Bennet when she was distressed, indulged Mr Bennet when they were obliged to indulge him and all /5(K).
The first, Longbourn by Jo Baker, is a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants in the Bennet household. The idea is inspired. In the original the servants are. It should be said at once that Jo Baker's "Longbourn" is an exception. Neither a sequel nor a disappointment, it's an affecting look at the world of "Pride and Prejudice," but from. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen's classic—into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars—and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized.
Longbourn by Jo Baker – review Jo Baker's retelling of Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective will please Austen fans and novices alike Servants in London, Daring to reconfigure what many would regard as literary perfection, Baker (The Undertow, , etc.) comes at Jane Austen's most celebrated novel from below stairs, offering a working-class view of the Bennet family of Longbourn House. While the familiar drama of Lizzie and Jane, Bingley and Darcy goes on in other, finer rooms, Baker's focus is the kitchen and the stable and the harsh cycle of labor that keeps the household functioning. English author Jo Baker’s novel Longbourn () is a retelling of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice told from the perspective of the servants at the Bennet family's Longbourn estate, where much of the original novel takes place.
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