Jane Austen, Ph.D: A Contemporary Romance

By Miranda Markwell

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: Jul 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781094412610

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Reviews for Jane Austen, Ph.D

[Darshana Pradhan · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It was short but worthwhile story to read with no fillers

[judy griffin · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Not a popular genre, thank goodness.

[Leena Aluru · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Its not bad. But then I truly have an issue with novellas. They are just too short for any kind of character/story development. In this book I led Emilio best .

[Elisabeth Wurm · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Smart and enjoyable. Lovely insight into both main characters’ minds. Characters are relatable with realistic fun banter.

[MEENAKSHI KRISHNAN · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Delightfully and intelligently written. As a PhD student who enjoys reading romance literature, I loved the way the authors wove in Austen and the travails of PhD life into the story with good and witty writing.

[Robin Bailey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The author has the creative ability to bring her characters to life and make them seem very familiar. Great read.