In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet’s visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library. P& P – Chapter 3 Early October 1811 Five days had passed since Mr. Bennet had called on Mr. Bingley at Netherfield Park. The delay was a result of the number of calls the gentleman had …
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Mr. Bennet Calls on Mr. Bingley at Netherfield by Mary Simonsen
Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley … though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid, she had no knowledge of it. Pride and Prejudice – Chapter 1 Early October 1811 Despite his insistence that he …
New Short Story – Behind Pemberley’s Walls – Mary Simonsen
New Release – Darcy and Elizabeth: Behind Pemberley’s Walls It’s me again! I am back with another short story: Darcy and Elizabeth: Behind Pemberley’s Walls. As with Lost in Love, this story takes place at Pemberley where a dejected Darcy has gone to try to get over Elizabeth’s rejection of his offer of marriage. Even with …
New Short Story – Lost in Love by Mary Simonsen
Note: The story has been out about a week now. My wonderful readers found it before I could launch it. As a result, the short story is #1 on Amazon’s historical short stories with a little red banner, “bestseller,” attached to it. That’s a first for me, and I was thrilled. Thank you. It’s been awhile since …
The Wedding Night of Antony Fitzwilliam and Lady Eleanor
A rerun of the trials and tribulations of Antony, Lord Stepton, Mr. Darcy’s cousin, were so well received that I am doing another: the marriage of Antony to Lady Eleanor Henley. Again, this post appeared somewhere else, but I’m not sure where. Enjoy! In Pride and Prejudice, we learn that Colonel Fitzwilliam is the younger …
The Fitzwilliam Brothers at the Pemberley Ball by Mary Simonsen
This short story appeared previously somewhere. As we are so close to New Year’s Eve, I thought it would be a fun post. Enjoy! Darcy waited patiently while Avery, Elizabeth’s lady’s maid, finished dressing his wife’s hair. Because tonight was the night of the New Year’s Eve ball, and Elizabeth’s first ball since becoming the mistress …
Dancing with Austen – Mamma Mia Edition
With Hanukkah in progress and Christmas a week away, I thought it might be a good time for another edition of “oldies but goodies” – the Mamma Mia Edition. Caveat: This post previously appeared on another Austen blog and possibly my own. At this point, I’ve written so many blog posts, I’ve lost track of them. At …
Dancing with Austen-Redux – Classic Rock Edition
With everyone busy with the holidays, I thought it might be a good time for some “oldies but goodies.” This post previously appeared on another Austen blog and possibly on my own, but whenever or wherever that was, the response was so great that I edited the post to include suggestions made by my readers …
Dickens’ London and Mr. Darcy’s, Too by Mary Simonsen
“Hell is a city much like London — A populous and smoky city.” Percy Bysshe Shelley* The excerpt below is taken from the opening paragraphs of Chapter I of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. It is a brilliant description of what London was like in 1852-53 when Bleak House was serialized. However, it is not that far …
Launch (and Sale) of Dying to Write by Mary Simonsen
Today is the official launch of Dying to Write, a Patrick Shea mystery. (My unofficial launch was in May before I went on a six-thousand-mile road trip.) Dying to Write is the fourth in the Patrick Shea mystery series. Ordinarily, a British police procedural would not be a good fit for an Austen-centered blog. However, …
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