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This series of books by Stephanie Barron (they are all good, but the latest one is sad because it is the last one, ever) purport to show Jane Austen as a solver of mysterious murders. Cleverly tying in real events in her life, our heroine acts with determination to solve the crimes, while coping with living in early 19th-century England, with all the restrictions put on women.
What is particularly striking is that the author has used a similar style of writing to what Jane Austen employed. She has been hailed as one of the finest writers in the English languauge, and her books remain classics. It's a style that is a bit more poetic than the standard writing of today, with a large vocabulary of descriptive words, some of which are not used very often nowadays. And no swearing! Instead, the situation is described with wit, sarcasm and irony, employing words to enrich the reader's understanding.
What do you think of that style of writing? Is it something you would wish to emulate?
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