Release Celebration YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME!!

The Mirabelle Harbor series is well underway, and I can’t express how excited I am about the release of the latest story — YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME!!! (It’s available on Amazon Kindle worldwide and, also, in paperback!) And today we’re going to have a PARTY!!! What’s most exciting about getting to celebrate the …

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Is Jane Bennet a Saint? by Mary Simonsen

To take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad–belongs to you alone. Elizabeth Bennet to her sister Jane Like the Bennets, I have a lot of sisters—five in fact. My real-life experience has always colored my view of the interactions between Lizzy and Jane because none …

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Jane and Colonel Fitzwilliam?

  What better way to start the year that to focus on one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters. Join Austen Variations as we spend January looking into the lovely Jane Bennet.     In ‘Remember the Past’, Jane found love, not with Bingley, but with Col. Fitzwilliam. A few scenes got cut from the …

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The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles – Jane Bennet Does The Austen Interviews

  What better way to start the year that to focus on one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters. Join us as Jane Bennet undergoes THE AUSTEN INTERVIEWS.   The Austen Interviews #9: An Interview with Miss Jane Bennet   JACK CALDWELL: Hello, everyone—Jack Caldwell here. It is Jane Bennet in January time here at …

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The Proposal

  What better way to start the year that to focus on one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters? Join Austen Variations as we spend January looking into the lovely Jane Bennet.   I like to imagine that rather than Mr. Bingley proposing to Jane Bennet in the family drawing room, they instead strolled in …

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A Jane Bennet Variation

  What better way to start the year that to focus on one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters? Join Austen Variations as we spend January looking into the lovely Jane Bennet.   In Pride & Prejudice, after Jane Bennet receives the letter from Caroline Bingley informing her Mr. Bingley is not returning to Netherfield, Elizabeth …

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Jane Bennet in January: In the Shrubbery

“It is settled between us already that we are to be the happiest couple in the world. But are you pleased, Jane? Shall you like to have such a brother?”    “Very, very much. Nothing could give either Bingley or myself more delight. But we considered it, we talked of it as impossible.” *********************************************** A carriage …

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Jane Confides How She Fell in Love with Mr. Bingley

  What better way to start the year than to focus on one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters. Join Austen Variations as we spend January looking into the lovely Jane Bennet.   When the theme for this month was announced, I thought the perfect piece for me to share would be this scene from …

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Darcy Reflects on his Parents’ Marriage by Mary Simonsen

Netherfield Park, Hertfordshire – November 15, 1812 Tomorrow I am to be married, Darcy thought, as he enjoyed a glass of port in his bedchamber. Although delighted by the prospect of sharing his life with the woman he loved, his thoughts turned to another couple—that of his parents, David Darcy and Lady Anne Fitzwilliam. As …

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The Finale of the Christmastide Season

  Though the holiday season is ending, I’d love to send it of with one final hurrah. So, Jan 5-6, A spot of Sweet Tea is FREE on amazon. Who can resist a holiday party? In the Regency era, the party of the year would generally be held on Twelfth Night, the culmination to the …

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