Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

In 2002, an amateur Jane Austen scholar, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre.

Pride and Prejudice 's Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park 's incest subtext becomes manifest; and Darcy gets more than his shirt wet.

This incisive parody o…