The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

Hardcover

Third Person

Fiction

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Mary, Jane Austen’s sister is now being written about. The sequel is 20 years after Austin‘s novel closes. The story begins as the neglected Bennett sister is released from the stultifying duty of caring for her insufferable mother. Though many would call a woman of Mary’s age a spinster, she has blossomed into a beauty rival that of her famous sisters. Her violet eyes and perfect figure bewitch the eligible men in the neighborhood, but though her family urges her to marry, Romance and frippery hold no attraction. Instead she is determined to set off on an adventure of her own. Fired with zeal by the newspaper letters of the mysterious Argus, , she resolves to publish a book about the plight of England’s poor. Plunging from one predicament into another, Mary finds herself stumbling closer to long-buried secrets, unanticipated dangers, and Unlooked for romance.

A Simon & Schuster Company

9781416596486

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