It is autumn 1803, six years after the events of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is finally settling into her role as mistress of Pemberley, and is glad to have her sister Jane nearby. But the evening before the annual Lady Anne ball, the house is thrown into chaos when Lydia Wickham appears on…
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Review: Jane Austen Made Me Do It
In recent years there’s been a swell of Austen remixes, retelling, sequels, and prequels. Miss Austen may have died almost 195 years ago, but her stories are alive and well in the hearts of millions of people — including the 22 authors whose short stories make up Jane Austen Made Me Do It. The stories…
Review: Lady of Quality
At nearly 30 years of age, Miss Annis Wynchwood has come to terms with her spinsterhood. She enjoys the independence that her age, wealth, and status provides, and has set up a house for herself at Bath. But what begins as an adventurous rescue of Miss Lucilla Carleton (who is running away from an arranged…
Review: The Corinthian, by Georgette Heyer
As I’ve mentioned before, Georgette Heyer wrote a lot of books. So far I’ve enjoyed her Regency novels much more than her mysteries, but that doesn’t narrow the scope by much — it still leaves me with 38 books from which to choose. Fortunately a couple of my readers are just as in love with…
Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy
Title: The Grand Sophy Author: Georgette Heyer Genre: Fiction – Regency Publication Date: 1950 Sophia Stanton-Lacy has arrived at her Aunt Ombersley’s home just in time. Her cousins are in a tangle: Charles is engaged to a hoity-toity snot, Cecilia is in love with a poet, and Hubert is acting strangely, even for him. Sophy…