How to deal with Mr Darcy
In my sequel to P&P, “Dialogue with Darcy”, I decided to avoid the choice made by other authors, to marry off Darcy’s sister Georgiana to Col. Fitzwilliam.
This freed me to develop two parallel but independent love stories, and the opportunity to show how Elizabeth could educate her new husband away from his fixed ideas about his relations!
Georgiana’s fondness for piano playing, as written by Jane Austen, also gave me a chance to challenge Darcy's prejudices about acceptable behaviour for high borne gentlemen.
Read my book to find out more – www.janetaylmer.com
This freed me to develop two parallel but independent love stories, and the opportunity to show how Elizabeth could educate her new husband away from his fixed ideas about his relations!
Georgiana’s fondness for piano playing, as written by Jane Austen, also gave me a chance to challenge Darcy's prejudices about acceptable behaviour for high borne gentlemen.
Read my book to find out more – www.janetaylmer.com
Published on August 14, 2015 01:25
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Darcy and the accidental author
News from Janet, for whom everything began with not knowing Mr Darcy's Story.
Let us go back to the beginning of my journey as an accidental author – a Sunday evening in Bath in the autumn of 1995. Wit News from Janet, for whom everything began with not knowing Mr Darcy's Story.
Let us go back to the beginning of my journey as an accidental author – a Sunday evening in Bath in the autumn of 1995. With more than 10 million other people in the UK, we were watching episode five of the BBC serial of P&P.
My second daughter was staying with us for the weekend, a break from working in London, and she commented that she wished that she could read Darcy’s side of the story, since Jane Austen had not said much about that in her novel.
I had not read the book for many years, and was surprised, and later in the week I bought an inexpensive copy of P&P from our local book shop, and highlighted the passages in which Darcy was present. I found that she was quite correct.
Having just finished a lengthy and rather boring task at work, I sat down and wrote two chapters of the story from the hero’s point of view.
...more
Let us go back to the beginning of my journey as an accidental author – a Sunday evening in Bath in the autumn of 1995. Wit News from Janet, for whom everything began with not knowing Mr Darcy's Story.
Let us go back to the beginning of my journey as an accidental author – a Sunday evening in Bath in the autumn of 1995. With more than 10 million other people in the UK, we were watching episode five of the BBC serial of P&P.
My second daughter was staying with us for the weekend, a break from working in London, and she commented that she wished that she could read Darcy’s side of the story, since Jane Austen had not said much about that in her novel.
I had not read the book for many years, and was surprised, and later in the week I bought an inexpensive copy of P&P from our local book shop, and highlighted the passages in which Darcy was present. I found that she was quite correct.
Having just finished a lengthy and rather boring task at work, I sat down and wrote two chapters of the story from the hero’s point of view.
...more
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