01890cam a2200373 i 4500 155230554 TxAuBib 20140209120000.0 130430s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013016430 9780385351232 hbk. 0385351232 hbk. TxAuBib rda Baker, Joe Don. Longbourn / Jo Baker. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 331 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers"--Title page verso. A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. While Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters fuss over balls and husbands, Sarah, their orphaned housemaid, is beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When a new footman arrives at Longbourn under mysterious circumstances, the carefully choreographed world she has known all her life threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Mentioned only fleetingly in Jane Austen’s classic, here Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Regency England and, in doing so, uncovers the real world of the novel that has captivated readers’ hearts around the world for generations. 20140209. MG. gb. jz. Household employees Great Britain Fiction. Families Great Britain Fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century Fiction. Domestic fiction. Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.