Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

In 2002, an amateur Jane Austen scholar, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery – lost scenes from Jane Austen’s novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Pride and Prejudice’s Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park’s incest subtext becomes manifest; and Darcy gets more than his shirt wet. This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish and delight mischievous Austenites.

Reviews of Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

'Arielle Eckstut brings her ready imagination to conjuring the sex scenes that Austen was not able to provide; she can write as if this were homage rather than desecration.' Guardian