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.

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Published on August 14, 2015 01:25
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