Anne de Bourgh, the heiress of Rosings Park, is twenty-six and still unmarried. She worries about her future. Her mother, Lady Catherine, expects her to marry her cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy. Although Anne admires his character, she does not love him ? and she so hopes to marry for love. After Darcy marries Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Anne is thrown into London's marriage market, where she is prey to every scheming mother, including her own. A round of introductions to eligible men leaves her as confused as ever. How does one recognize a true heart when pleasing manners and a handsome countenance can hide an unworthy character? Anne must learn to ignore the persuasion of others to find her heart's desire.

Three generations of the Darcy and the Bingley families evolve against a backdrop of the political ideals and social reforms of the mid-Victorian era.

Proud… Not proud… Proud… Elizabeth Bennet is visiting her friend Charlotte—now Mrs. Collins—at Hunsford when they are invited to Rosings Park, the luxurious estate of Mr. Collins’ matron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. To her surprise, she meets a former acquaintance there, one she never would have expected to see again—Mr. Darcy! It turns out that Mr. Darcy is the nephew of Lady Catherine, and is now visiting his aunt with his younger sister, Georgiana. Elizabeth becomes quick friends with the spirited young girl, who is not at all as proud as a certain Mr. Wickham once described. There is however a person at Rosings Park who treats her with uttermost arrogance—but it isn’t Mr. Darcy. In fact, it is Mr. Darcy whose company provides an easy respite from the suffocating atmosphere of Rosings Park. Slowly, Elizabeth starts to see a different side to the man whom she had once considered proud and arrogant. But is this the true Mr. Darcy after all? The Garden of Roses is a sweet, clean romance novella suitable for all lovers of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

The trouble with Lords, is that one can never know whether or not their intentions are entirely honorable… Surprised by the honor of an invitation to tea at Rosings Park while visiting her friend Charlotte Collins at Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet is surprised to see how sickly Lady Catherine’s daughter is. Her curiosity is further piqued as she overhears whispers of Anne de Bourgh’s illness—could there be a dark secret lurking at the heart of Rosings Park? Elizabeth will not be satisfied until her questions are answered and the truth behind Anne’s strange malady is revealed, but has she tread too closely upon secrets that her Ladyship would rather keep hidden? The Trouble with Lords is the first in a series of clean cozy mysteries featuring Elizabeth Bennet and other characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and is suitable for all lovers of this classic novel.

Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen’s minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen’s minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and predators, or become superfluous women who have left the marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence. These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the marriage market economy, exposing women’s limited choices. This book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective individualism.

Elizabeth Bennet is quickly running out of options for a suitable husband. As her mother begins to worry about Mr. Bennet’s health, the need to secure Longbourn’s legacy grows ever more pressing. Elizabeth Bennet has had a change of heart. As the years have flown by, the search for the very deepest love, something that has driven her decisions in regards to marriage, now seem somewhat impossible. Perhaps a happy marriage does not require love. Perhaps all those things she had always dreamed of would come in time... With two younger sisters married and out of the house, and Jane always away on her own pursuits, her mother’s obsession with seeing her daughters properly married has turned a new corner. With Elizabeth’s new views on marriage presented to her mother, she is sent to Hunsford to become better acquainted with Mr. Collins, to whom Longbourn is entailed. However, her choice to ask Charlotte Lucas to accompany her to Hunsford has proven problematic, and when Mr. Collins’ affections are turned elsewhere, Elizabeth finds herself in a position that will only lead her to heartbreak. Upon A Winter’s Star is a sweet, clean, Pride and Prejudice Holiday Variation that is suitable for all lovers of Jane Austen’s romantic classic. Keywords: pride and prejudice clean variation novel, historical regency romance, holiday romance, historical holiday romance, england regency history, clean historical regency romance, jane austen variation, pride and prejudice variation, ODC, elizabeth bennet mr darcy, historical vagery, friends to lovers elizabeth bennet mr darcy engagement regency historical regency romance clean and sweet JAFF

In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were digging up a “big cheese”—the moon’s reflection on the water’s surface. It worked. In Jane Austen’s Names, Margaret Doody offers a fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and places—real and imaginary—in Austen’s fiction. Austen’s creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen’s names signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen’s technique of creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully deployed realism—in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the Regency. Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted Janeite, Jane Austen’s Names will revolutionize how we read Austen’s fiction.