Ladies in Waiting

Name: Ladies in Waiting
ISBN: 9781668204184

Jane Austen's Unsung Characters

Adriana Trigiani, Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James

Gallery Books · Print & ebook · November 4, 2025

Celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings.

Regency Romance Romance Collections Retellings & Pastiche short story

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Who it’s for: Eight authors give Austen’s overlooked characters room for their own happy endings.
Genres: Retellings & Pastiche, Regency Romance, Romance Collections
Published: Gallery Books, November 4, 2025

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About this book

Celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings. In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters.

Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans, Ladies in Waiting is a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.

Austen, Reimagined

Eight authors give Austen’s overlooked characters room for their own happy endings.

Come here for

A witty return to Austen’s world through characters usually left in the margins
Stories that range across genres and oceans

Expect

Affectionate, imaginative reboots of familiar Austen connections
A short-story collection with wit and a celebratory spirit

Where it sits

Romance Collections	91%
Regency Romance	64%
Retellings & Pastiche	55%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

Romance Collections
Women's Fiction

Authors: Adriana Trigiani, Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: November 4, 2025
Format: Print & ebook
Reading lane: Romance Collections