About The Adventurers
Adventure, intrigue, and suspense during Napoleon’s forlorn retreat from Russia in 1813. Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master’s degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers’ reader and a reviewer. She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, Passion and Principle . But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including Polonaise , The Lost Garden , and Savannah Purchase , the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers. She enjoys the borderland between mystery and novel, is pleased to be classed as a feminist writer, and is glad that there is neither a glass ceiling nor a retiring age in the writers’ world. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken.
- Complete Title: The Adventurers
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 508
- Publication Time: January 1, 1978
- Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print
- ISBN: 0708902278
- ISBN13: 9780708902271
About Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master’s degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers’ reader and a reviewer.
She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, PASSION AND PRINCIPLE. But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including POLONAISE, THE LOST GARDEN, and SAVANNAH PURCHASE, the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers.
She enjoys the borderland between mystery and novel, is pleased to be classed as a feminist writer, and is glad that there is neither a glass ceiling nor a retiring age in the writers’ world. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken.
Reviews The Adventurers
Diane Lynn
Started off very well, got my attention right from the start. I was so happy with the beginning and then things went downhill. The middle dragged as our characters became camp followers moving from to…
MAB LongBeach
Originally published in 1965 and now available as an ebook, this holds up very well.Sonia von Hugel is hiding in the barn loft when first French soldiers and then Cossacks invade her family’s castle a…
Lori D
1813 Sonia is left after witnessing the destruction of her father and the household at the hands of the French with the Napoleonic war raging. She escapes with her governess and an acquaintance, Charl…
Cheryl
A fun book that loosely fits into my collection of “Austeniana,” since it is set in the same Regency-world. It is at heart a novel of manners–whether the characters are in Chatillon threatened by a m…
Krissie
I read this several times back in the ’70s when it first came out and loved it. It’s been sitting on my iPod in audio for years, so I finally listened and it held up well. The sudden reversal of the h…
MrsMascara
I loved this, an old fashioned historical romance in the best sense of the word, Sonia Von Hugel, half German half English, witnesses the abuse and killing of her father, and her household by French a…
Cass
A rag-tag group of three set out as adventurers to earn enough money to turn their lives around amid the shifting landscape of Germany and France during the Napoleonic Wars. Interesting concept, and I…
Jackie M
The Adventurers by Jane Aiken Hodge. Agora Books, 1965; 2019.n this unusual Regency era story, after witnessing her father’s murder, a servant’s rape and their household’s destruction at the han…
Tricia
I really enjoyed this regency romance, which felt very true to the time and depicted some of the horrors that occurred during the Napoleonic wars. Sonia’s trauma and her struggles felt very real to me…