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New Book and Cover Reveal by Mary Simonsen

Some of you may not know that in addition to writing Jane Austen re-imaginings, I also write the Patrick Shea mystery series. For about two years, I have been going back and forth between the two genres, but with my latest novel, I decided to combine the two! Here’s the blurb from the back jacket: …

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Persuasion 200: Capt. Wentworth Visits with his Brother at Monkford by Mary Simonsen

It is the summer of 1806. Frederick Wentworth, who has yet to meet Anne Elliot, is visiting with his brother Edward, a curate in Somerset, while waiting for a ship to command. “Frederick found a home for half a year at Monkford.” – Persuasion “You are restless, Frederick,” Edward Wentworth said to his brother, and the …

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Persuasion 200 – Cast of Characters

Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Austen died in Winchester on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41. After Austen’s death, in December 1817, Cassandra and Henry Austen arranged with John Murray, Jane’s editor, for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in a single volume. Henry Austen contributed a Biographical Note that, for the first time, identified …

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Mr. Collins’s Cucumber by Mary Simonsen

March 5, 1812 Engaged to Mr. Collins? Impossible! Lizzy winced at the memory of her reaction to Charlotte’s engagement to her cousin. Without thinking highly of either men or matrimony, for Charlotte, marriage had always been her object. Once Lizzy accepted the fact of the engagement, she understood the reason: It was the only honorable …

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Another Place in Time – Excerpt by Mary Simonsen

In Another Place in Time, Mr. Darcy is not the only one who visits the future; Miss Darcy makes the journey as well. In the excerpt below, Georgiana Darcy and modern-day friend Chris O’Malley take in some of Baltimore’s sights: Prior to walking into Victoria’s Secret, Georgiana had been frugal with her brother’s money, but …

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Launch of Another Place in Time by Mary Simonsen

I am pleased to launch my latest Jane Austen re-imagining on Austen Variations. Another Place in Time is a time-travel novel featuring our beloved Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. As everyone knows, their love story gets off to a rocky start, even more so in my novel. Darcy needs help, but from whom? That’s where …

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