by Joan Aiken · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257229578
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«Elizas Tochter» is the historical novel by Joan Aiken, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (371 pages, in German).
A novel that extends the story of a secondary character from Sense and Sensibility: Eliza, Colonel Brandon's ward in Jane Austen's work. Joan Aiken follows her daughter, also named Eliza and known as Liz, a red-haired girl who grows up in the English countryside and takes her own path, with irony and homage to the Austenian tone.
Original title: Eliza's Daughter. 1997 edition; German translation by Renate Orth-Guttmann. No. 22957 of Diogenes-Taschenbuch.
For readers of Jane Austen and fans of literary reinterpretations, historical fiction, and romance.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
