When Marianne – still beautiful, still impulsive and not yet twenty-one – returns to London, she is rich, with a house in Mayfair and an estate in Dorsetshire. Despite her resolve to remain single, she finds herself besieged with admirers, including the dangerously attractive Willoughby and the charming and irreverent Crawford. Then Marianne’s younger sister, […]
The curious allure of Miss Mary Bennet
Poor Mary Bennet. The plain, bookish one in Pride and Prejudice, delighting us long enough. But, as Alice McVeigh reflects, the many reimaginings of Mary’s story demonstrate the curious allure she holds for so many of us. The late, great Hilary Mantel was already scribbling her own Mary Bennet novel when she died. Janice Hadlow’s […]