Jane Austen, Ph.D: A Contemporary Romance

Written by Miranda Markwell

Narrated by Courtney Bailey

All Louisa wants is to finish her doctoral dissertation on Jane Austen and find her Colonel Brandon. Or Mr. Darcy. Or Henry Tilney. Or Edward Ferrars. Honestly, at this point, she’s stopped being picky about which Austen hero will (finally) come along and whisk her off to her happily ever after. But she still has someone in mind: for the past five years, she’s sat in the graduate students’ shared office space — twenty PhDs-in-progress to a single desk-packed room — and waited patiently for Daniel to realize that she just might be his own romantic heroine.
But Daniel, a grad student obsessed with male beat poets of the twentieth century, has hardly noticed her since they both arrived in the same cohort five years ago. Louisa is determined to get his attention this year, though, as they enter their final semester of graduate study and prepare to defend their dissertations… If only her office mate Emilio would stop ragging on her about the value of studying Austen and leave her alone.
When Emilio turns out to be Darcy-level dependable when it comes to sorting out her personal life (and even offers to be her “fake date” to try and get Daniel’s attention), however, Louisa starts to wonder what Austen herself would think of this new “hero” she’s encountered, one who seems nothing like the men she’s read about in novels.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Shorts
• Release date: Oct 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781094412603

Reviews for Jane Austen, Ph.D

[Rhoda · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Give this author another. Chance, I shant!
Miranda Maxwells stories are hot trash

[Quia Morrow · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This author created a fast favorite in a 2 hour story. I can't wait to read more from her. I'm so happy to have found another great writer to add to my list of favs

[veronica needa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

She writes SO well. Loved it.I did hear it read at x1.2 speed. Thanks to one of the previous reviewers for this suggestion.

[Jemina Linnama · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Lovely short story with beautiful ending. I'm new to listening such short stories, but this made me want more!

[Elena Hobbs-Minor · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Delightful. Smart writing. Enchanting. Fun audio books told with great voice.

[Franka · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really nice story! Short, sweet and intelligent! Narrator was also very good, but little too slow. I listened it at 1.2 speed and it was great!

[Debbie Jayne Doolin · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

OK, but not very Austen-like in terms of morals. The main character imagines herself with one of two men in various stages of dress, or sleeping with one or the other of them (no details), and there's much talk of being drunk, seeing others drunk, etc. I was disappointed and will keep hoping for a new take on Jane's style without all of the junk impacting the story.

It's a short book so I finished it (can't get what I want on scribd until the 22nd again, leaving me with basically nothing but non-fiction or novels filled with language and repeated scenes of loose living and other things I don't want to fill my mind with). Fluffy and simple and extremely predictable, with a couple, or few, grammar mistakes.

NOTE: The book contains BIG spoilers for
Persuasion by Jane Austen, one of my all time
favorite's of her works, and of films made from her tales. DO NOT READ this book until after you've read or seen Persuasion!!!

[AJ · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I would rate higher if the narrator was better. She reads it like she's reading a manual, or narrating some type of module for training. The cadence is so off-putting. BUT listening to it at 1.5 helped. Story was otherwise very cute.

[Tiffany Jones · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this story. Light, quick, fluffy and clean.