Anne looks forward complacently to what she hopes will be a springtime wedding with Mr. Darcy… March 1, 1812 Lady Catherine prided herself on her deportment, which consisted in a magnificently upright carriage, and a way of moving that might be called an arrogant glide. To display a need for haste, would be deserving of …
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Jane Austen Unmasked: A Visit to Shelley by Diana Birchall
Note to readers: I have been using a working title of The Darcys in Venice for this continuing story, but now so much of it has accumulated that we are only a few installments away from The End, and I plan to publish it in book form. I wanted a better title, and thought Jane …
Lydia and Lady Catherine: A Battle in Venice
In the sultry days of early September the Darcys were wanting to leave Venice, where the heat hung dome-like and heavy over the muddy canals. Lord Byron mentioned a country villa he and Shelley knew about, in Este, near Padua, a twenty-five mile carriage journey from Venice. It was on high grounds with beautiful gardens …
Birth in Venice by Diana Birchall
Lady Catherine de Bourgh was used to being well served. Therefore when she was awakened by the unaccustomed spectacle of her bedchamber filled with sunshine from a sun already fairly high in the sky, she was startled. Why, it must be past nine o’clock. Where was her maid? No one had come to pull back …
Letters from Venice
Many changes had come to Longbourn since the day on which Mrs. Bennet had got rid of her two mostdeserving daughters. Once she would have protested that with all her daughters married, she would have nothing else to wish for, but the reality was something different, and Mrs Bennet had perhaps more complaints now …
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