Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1)

by Stephanie Barron

I NEVER FEEL THAT I HAVE COMPREHENDED AN EMOTION, or fully lived even the smallest of events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved sister Cassandra.

As a single man in possession of a good fortune, he must be in want of a wife;

The lot of women is indeed a cruel one—either die an old maid, reviled and unprovided, or die of hard work and childbed, both too liberally bestowed.

Another p&p tease