Diana Birchall

Selected Works

Fiction
Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma
A sequel to Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Elton in America
The “Mrs. Elton” trilogy –- short novels about the hilarious character from Jane Austen’s Emma.
Biography
Onoto Watanna
Biography of Onoto Watanna, the first Asian American novelist.

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Works

Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma
Adventures of the now middle-aged Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, in the Victorian era now opening at Pemberley.

New nationally published edition of Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma available now from SourceBooks

Praise for Diana Birchall's Pride and Prejudice sequel:

"Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma -- the very title makes you want to read it right away! Fascinating, and such wonderful use of language."
--Joan Austen-Leigh

"Birchall's witty, elegant visit to the middle-aged Darcys is a delight."
--Professor Janet Todd, Aberdeen University


"Jane Austen is alive and well and living in California!"
--Harriet Devine

Mrs. Elton in America
Sourcebooks, 2008

Mrs. Elton goes farther! Crossing the Atlantic Ocean with her caro sposo and children, she enjoys high comedic adventures in Boston and New York society, makes a sobering visit to a Southern slave state, and sojourns among the Comanche Indians. Her trip to America is the talk of Highbury...

Onoto Watanna
The Story of Winnifred Eaton, University of Illinois Press, 2001

Winnifred Eaton was one of fourteen children of an English artist and his Chinese wife. Her oldest sister, Sui Sin Far, is remembered as the mother of Asian American fiction. Winnifred, more commercially successful, assumed a fake Japanese persona -- Onoto Watanna -- to promote her romantic best-sellers.