The girl was known as Beetle, because she often used the dung piles in villages to keep herself warm at night, until she happened into the village where Jane Sharp was the midwife. Jane wasn’t a particularly kind woman, but she was in need of help, and she took Beetle on, so long as she […]
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Annis Wychwood is 29. She’s beautiful, and has plenty of her own money, and she’s resolutely single. Plenty of men want her, but she hasn’t found a man that she’s willing to marry. So, she’s set up her own house in Bath, where she’s carved out a comfortable life for herself. One fateful day, on
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The Matters at Mansfield continues the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, this time with the addition of characters from Mansfield Park. Lady Catherine is determined to marry off her daughter Anne, and needless to say, Anne has no say in the matter. When Lady Catherine sets her sights on the heir of a Viscount who
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Read for the 2011 YA and RIP VI Reading Challenges. Sally Lockhart has recently lost her father, and is now living with an aunt she barely knows and having to find her own way in Victorian London. She had a rather unconventional childhood, her father always believed in teaching her to take care of herself
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The Duke of Avon has a bit of a reputation in both France and his native England – he’s known as “Satanas”, and absolutely no one thinks well of him. Late one night, he comes across a red-headed street urchin named Leon, who is fleeing a beating at his brother’s hand. Seemingly on a whim,
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I managed to score Letters from Pemberley and More Letters from Pemberley from the same Bookmooch member, so I figured I might as well read them together, especially since they’re both pretty quick reads. (Ideal for the worst heat wave in my lifetime, let me tell you.) I was able to give the first a
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Letters from Pemberley tells of Elizabeth Darcy, nee Bennett’s, first year as a married woman, and mistress of Pemberley, through the lens of letters to her sister Jane. It’s not the worst Pride and Prejudice continuation I’ve ever read, but I won’t say it’s my favorite, either. The author uses characters from Austen’s other works
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Eustacie has run away to become a governess, rather than marry her thoroughly unromantic cousin Sir Tristram. She falls in with a group of smugglers, including one of her other cousins, Ludovic, rightful heir to their grandfather’s barony, who has unfortunately fallen into a life of crime after being falsely accused of murder, and being
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Set just after Napoleon’s reign has come to an end, this sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia takes up where the last book left off. Cousins Kate and Cecy are now married, and along with their husbands, Thomas and James, are off to Europe for a combined honeymoon. In
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Reading Challenge. I think I need to be more mindful of my planned reading for reading challenges. I’m right now up against a challenge to read two more Booker Long List books before the end of the month in order to finish the challenge, so this book found its
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