Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for A Contrary Wind: a variation on Mansfield Park at bltadwin.ru Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. A Contrary Wind features the little-known story of the British crusade to abolish slavery. Regency England comes alive in this exciting variation of an Austen classic. There are some mature scenes. “Many try to emulate Austen; not all succeed. Here, Manning triumphs.” – Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. A CONTRARY WIND A variation on Mansfield Park Book One of the Mansfield Trilogy By Lona Manning © Lona Manning bltadwin.ru Cover design by Dissect.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for A Contrary Wind: A Variation on Mansfield Park by Lona Manning (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! A Contrary Wind is a praiseworthy and well-crafted variation of Mansfield Park. Through her prose and premise Lona Manning displays a comprehensive knowledge of the time period and an admirable devotion to Jane Austen and her world. A wonderful choice for readers who are looking for well-written stories that feature other Jane Austen novels. Austenesque Reviews: Brava to Lona Manning for her thoughtful twists and skillful execution in this variation. This story was in no way predictable and it kept me guessing almost until the end! JustJane blog: Lona Manning has a very engaging writing style, while her writing also captures the essence of Austen's style and the time period in which she wrote her stories.
BlueInk Reviews starred review: A Contrary Wind is an impressive feat. Manning not only emulates Austen’s writing style so well that she often seamlessly incorporates exact passages from the original into her narrative, she also retains the claustrophobic pettiness of the upper class while setting the novel securely in its political and social context. A Contrary Wind differs from Mansfield Park in that not all the scenes involving sex occur off-stage and instead of having “[t]hree or four families in a country village,” the action moves from Mansfield Park, to Bristol, London, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and the coast of Africa, where young Lieutenant William Price fights the slave trade as. Out from under the stately shrubberies of Mansfield Park, she is forced to take charge of her own life. A Contrary Wind draws deeply from history to make slavery and the crusade for abolition, two issues central to both Mansfield Park and Fanny's adventures, important spurs for plot here. Historical characters are artfully woven into events.
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