| LADYSUSAN | Epistolary Jane Austen novel that was unpublished in her lifetime (4,5) |
| CASANOVA | 18c Italian adventurer whose autobiography remained unpublished in full until 1960 (8) |
| BEATRIXPOTTER | Which author thought her 1929 work The Fairy Caravan was too autobiographical to be published in England during her lifetime? (7,6) |
| TEN | Number of Emily Dickinson poems, out of the 1,700+ she wrote, that were published during her lifetime |
| NATIVESON | Best-selling 1940 novel that was adapted into a film, with its author playing the protagonist, in 1951 |
| ORGANISMS | Special-interest periodical is given unpublished piece about living creatures (9) |
| PENFRIEND | Term for one's correspondence cully, lettered love, missive mate, postal pal, quill companion, snail mail chum, written wack or other epistolary link, known only in ink, traditionally in the slower pr |
| SCREWTAPE | The ?, 1942 epistolary novel by C S Lewis (9,7) |
| EMMA | Jane Austen novel that inspired the film "Clueless" |
| EMMMA | Jane Austen novel that inspired "Clueless" |
| PERSUASION | Jane Austen novel that follows the story of the rekindling of love between characters Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth (10) |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| OMERTA | Mario Puzo novel that was posthumously published in 2000 |
| CARRIE | Stephen King novel that was adapted into a movie with Sissy Spacek in the title role (6) |
| KES | Name of the windhover in Barnsley-born Barry Hines's classic coming-of-age novel that was adapted for the screen by Ken Loach (3) |
| OMOO | Melville novel that was a sequel to "Typee" |
| BLOTT | - on the Landscape; Tom Sharpe's novel that was adapted to screen (5) |
| DOME | "Under the ___" (Stephen King novel that was made into a CBS series) |
| THEMAZERUNNER | Dystopian young adult novel that was turned into a 2014 movie: 3 wds. |
| OCTAVIA | Jilly Cooper novel that was adapted for TV |