Jane Austen in Time

By J Marc Merrill

After a means of time travel is discovered in 2025 AD, a major southwestern university in the United States initiates a pilot program designed to add as much new information as possible about the most famous and the most influential of English authors. Twelve doctoral candidates are chosen to participate. Wilson Price, one of the twelve, is persuaded by the Chair of the English Department to take on a special mission: he is to make the jump from 2025 to June of 1801, take lodging at Sidmouth in southern England, locate Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice, learn the identity of the young gentleman she is said to have fallen in love with, discover why he died so unexpectedly, and then determine how this crucial incident affected Jane's writing. Wilson is warned not to become personally involved with Jane in order to avoid any risk of changing the past, but with Jane that restriction proves to be impossible to keep and complications arise from the moment he accepts an invitation from Jane's father to join him, his eldest daughter Cassandra, and Jane herself at the tea room on the beach. Additional complications are caused by Ann Devitt, one of the twelve time travelers. She and Marianne Sommers are assigned to Lord Byron, but Anne goes rogue. Teamed with Marianne to try to track her down and return her to the university, Wilson's search takes him farther back in time to Shakespeare's London, then to Switzerland in 1816, Hollywood in 1952, Sepphoris in the Galilee in the first century AD, and Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1925.Wilson's journeys in time reveal a past--and a present--that will shock the world!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516840380
• ISBN13: 9781516840380
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"