Books by Stephanie Barron

A definitive overview of postwar German art examines the work of artists in both East and West Germany to reveal how they depicted the diverse political realities of the era through both abstraction and realism, with profiles of Georg Baselitz, Willi Baumeister, Joseph Beuys, Hannah Höch, Gerhard Richter, and many others.

Offering a look at the artist's life and multifaceted career, this volume contain's more than three hundred reproductions of Hockney's art--more than half in full-color--and seven essays by distinguished critics and artist friends.

This ground-breaking volume documents the extraordinary Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in 1937 as part of their clearly articulated antimodernist policy. Here, more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show are collected and illustrated in full color. International experts on Germany in the Nazi period have contributed essays on the purposes of the exposition, aspects of the installation, the significance of the campaign against "degenerate art" as an instrument of government policy, and the concept of "degenerate art" in other fields. Generously illustrated--many never before published--the volume also contains biographies of the artists, a chronology, and data on the fate of the works in the exhibition, including those sold at auction in Lucerne in 1939, and the many believed to be lost or destroyed.

The rise of the Nazis in 1933 caused an unprecedented forced migration of hundreds of artists within and, in many cases, ultimately away from Europe. Exiles and Emigres, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition opening in February 1997 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first book to trace the lives and work of 23 well-known painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects exiled from their homelands during the 12 years of Nazi rule. Some of the artists, such as Kandinsky, Beckmann, Heartfield, Schwitters, and Kokoschka, sought refuge in Paris, London, or Amsterdam. Others, including Leger, Ernst, Chagall, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe, fled to the United States. For all the artists, their years of exile would become crucial to the development of their art. Essays by 19 prominent American and European art historians discuss all aspects of the artist in exile, from monographic studies of individual figures to an analysis of the French artistic community in New York. More than 300 illustrations, including many historical photographs, provide a rich visual documentation of the time. An illustrated chronology details key cultural and political events. The related exhibition travels to the Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal in June 1997 and to the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in October.

With Prince Albert, the Queen's Consort, dying of typhoid, Queen Victoria summons Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor, a request that results in his beautiful ward narrowly escaping a murder attempt, the ransacking of his chambers, and the death of another young girl and leads him to believe that dark secrets and intrigues threaten the queen's troubled court. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

German Expressionism refers to the early 20th-century movement primarily in Germany, including such artists as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Though varied in purpose and style, the movement was a highly subjective and personal art inspired by social changes or crises, and was often marked by the use of exaggerated expressions, colors, and images. This publication coincided with a major exhibition on German Expressionism at the Palazzo Grassi, in Venice, Italy.

Looks at the development of the Expressionist movement, profiles leading artists, and shows examples of paintings, prints, and sculpture.

It's with a heavy heart that Jane Austen takes up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the lost love of her life, she's stunned to learn that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, letters, and most intimate correspondence. From these, Jane is expected to write a memoir of the Gentleman Rogue for posterity. But before she can put pen to paper on this labor of love, she discovers a corpse in the cellar of her new home.

The dead man was a common laborer, and a subsequent coroner's examination shows he was murdered elsewhere and transported to Chawton Cottage. Suddenly Jane and her family are thrust into the center of a brewing scandal in this provincial village that doesn't take kindly to outsiders in general--and to Austens in particular.

And just as Jane glimpses a connection between the murder and the shattering truth concealed somewhere in Lord Harold's papers, violent death strikes yet another unsuspecting vicitim. Suddenly there are suspects and motives everywhere Jane looks--local burglaries, thwarted passions, would-be knights, and members of the royal family itself who want Lord Harold hushed . . . even in death. As the tale of one man's illustrious life unfolds--a life that runs a parallel course to the history of two continents--Jane races against time to catch a cunning killer before more innocent lives are taken. But her determination to protect Lord Harold's legacy could exact the costliest price of all: her own life.

Jane and His Lordship's Legacy is historical suspense writing at its very finest, graced with insight, perception, and uncommon intelligence of its singular heroine in a mystery that will test the mettle of her mind and heart.


From the Hardcover edition.

July, 1809: With the advent of summer, inimitable novelist and occasional sleuth Jane Austen is beginning to emerge from her grief over her lost love, Lord Harold Trowbridge. She has moved with her mother and sister to a cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, and has even begun to revise one of her first manuscripts.

But no sooner are her belongings unpacked than a strangled corpse is discovered in the cellar. Which of her neighbors had cause to murder shiftless Henry French? And what connection does his death have to the legend of the stolen Chawton Emeralds? As Jane sorts through the personal papers Lord Trowbridge bequeathed to her in his will, she can't keep her mind off the mystery. And lurking just out of sight is someone who will stop at nothing to secure a fortune--including disposing of a most inconvenient new neighbor.

It is July 1809, and Jane is just beginning to emerge from her grief over her lost love, Lord Harold Trowbridge. When, moving with her mother and sister into a cottage on her brother's estate in Chawton, Hampshire, she begins to revise one of her first manuscripts, determined to honor Lord Trowbridge's confidence in her work, a corpse is suddenly discovered in the cellar. Who killed Henry French? And what does his death have to do with the stolen Chawton Emeralds? Jane can't keep her mind off the mystery, even though someone who will stop at nothing to secure a fortune is lurking just out of sight.

In April 1811, while staying with her brother and his wife in London to await the publication of her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen finds herself deep in the heart of a conspiracy with its roots in the French Revolution when she investigates the murder of a disgraced woman rumored to be the mistress of Lord Castlereagh. Reprint.

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth!

In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes.  It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal--but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds.  A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise.  While many urge the arrest of a known scoundrel with eyes for the victim, Jane looks further afield and finds a number of acquaintances behaving oddly.

As rumors spread like wildfire that Napoleon's fleet is bound for Kent, Jane suspects that the murder was an act of war rather than a crime of passion.  Suddenly the peaceful fields of Kent are a very dangerous place...and Jane's thirst for justice may exact the steepest price of all--her life.

When Regency novelist and amateur sleuth Jane Austen is sent by Lord Trowbridge to Netley Abbey to retrieve secretly a parcel hidden among the ruins, she gets more than she had bargained for when she also stumbles upon a dying man. By the author of Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House. Reprint.

The 18th century novelist-of-manners-turned-sleuth returns to delight readers with another nimble-witted investigation of mayhem in the pastoral landscape of rural England. When Jane's gentleman friend Lord Trowbridge sends her, in the utmost secrecy, to retrieve a parcel hidden amidst the ruins of Netley Abbey, Jane finds not only the parcel but also a dying man. When events take a regrettably sinister turn, only Jane is clever enough to pursue the miscreant.

Stephanie Barron's series masterfully evokes Jane Austen's witty style, the intricacies of manners in this genteel era, and the rich tapestry of gossip in a milieu of carefully nuanced social relationships. The classic murder mystery meets its match in a plucky heroine who layers Austen's sense and sensibility on top of an inquisitive nature and a natural resolve.

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...the second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth. What murky secrets does the brooding Mr. Sidmouth seek to hide? Jane suspects the worst--but her attention is swiftly diverted when a man is discovered hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea. The worthies of Lyme are certain his death is the work of "the Reverend," the ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade whose identity is the town's paramount mystery. Now, it falls to Jane to entrap and expose the notorious Reverend...even if the evidence points to the last person on earth she wants to suspect...a man who already may have won her heart.

Jane Austen, novelist and private investigator, is back on another case, this one involving the Royal Navy. Her brother Frank's friend, Tom Seagrave, is in the brig, accused by his first mate of stabbing a French captain after the captain surrendered. Tom denies the charges, but his dagger was found in the French captain's chest. To clear up this mystery, Jane agrees to go to the Wool House, a building where French prisoners are jailed. Risking infection, she nurses the French ship's crew, and gets an account from the ship's surgeon that exonerates Tom. But at that moment, the first mate is killed, and Tom is now doubly under suspicion. Who could want to send him to the gallows?

A ship captain named Thomas Seagrave is accused of murdering a French naval officer, and then Seagrave's accuser is murdered too. Jane Austen, whose brother Frank is a good friend of Seagrave's, journeys to the port of Southampton to solve the mystery.

Jane Austen is enjoying August, 1806, among Derbyshire's craggy peaks, sparkling streams, and cavernous gorges. That is, until she discovers the corpse of a young gentleman whose blond curls and delicate features suggest the face of an angel.

More shocking still is the coroner's revelation: the deceased is no man but a maidservant, clad in the garb of her master, Mr. Charles Danforth of Penfolds Hall. Tess Arnold had ruled the stillroom at Penfolds for many years, until she was labeled a witch and dismissed for indiscretion. Was Tess the prey of a madman loose in the hills, or perchance the cast-off impediment to a gentleman's marriage?

As usual, Jane's acute perception and her nose for trouble place her supremely at risk, from a killer who may strike as violently by day as he once did by night.

The horrifying mutilation murder of a young servant girl from a nearby estate in the Peak District draws author-turned-sleuth Jane Austen into a terrifying mystery that could lead her into a perilous search for a possible madman or into the mysterious secrets of Freemasonry. By the author of Jane and the Genius of Place. Reprint.

Shortly after author Jane Austen's arrival at the estate of the Countess of Scargrave, the countess's elderly husband falls victim to a mysterious illness, his widow becomes the target of sinister accusations, and Jane endangers her own life to get to the bottom of the puzzle. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobels husband--agentleman of mature years--is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earls death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet thebereaved widow soon finds that its only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earls nephew of adultery--and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help. And Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that leads all the way to Newgate Prison and the House of Lords--atrail that may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy.

As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge--to shadow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of the unsavoury Earl of Swithin.But Janes idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the Theatre Royal. Adding to the mystery is an unusual object found on the victims body--a pendant that contains a portrait of an eye! As Jane's fascination with scandal leads her deeper into the investigation, it becomes clear that she will not uncover the truth without some dangerous playacting of her own....

This survey of the idea California has represented in the American imagination includes more than 400 works of art in a variety of media, including film, fashion, furniture, and photography, as well as painting and sculpture.

By many writers, a look at California's visual culture from its early years to the 1990s that covers topics such as Hollywood, Chinatown in San Francisco, the Beats, Chicano art, the Watts Towers, and the role of the automobile.

Stephanie Barron, author of nine previous novels about Jane Austen, switches her attention to another beloved English novelist in this riveting literary mystery, in which a young woman named Jo Bellamy discovers a journal which seems to prove that Virginia Woolf's suicide was a ruse. When the journal mysteriously disappears, Bellamy decides to pursue other evidence, which forces her to immerse herself in the life of the dead writer.