Merriment: It’s not always what you expect!

“MARCH MERRIMENT”  has been selected as the theme for this month here at the blog, which we author members are each free to use as inspiration or ignore completely when we write our posts. I often take advantage of the monthly themes, but I wasn’t quite sure what to do with this one. And so, where did I turn for answers? To Jane Austen, of course!

I conducted a word search for “merriment” throughout her body of work, expecting to find lots of fun and happy stuff. Obviously! Because this is the ...