Presumption
An Entertainment
A Sequel to Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice

by Julia Barrett
pseudonym of Julia Braun Kessler (signed)
and Gabrielle Donnelly

M. Evans First Edition

Description: This item is for one copy (of three available for sale) of a hardback book published by M. Evans & Company in 1993. The copyright pages states 'First Edition' and the printing status bars are complete, making them first printings. Signed by coauthor Julia Braun Kessler as Julia Barrett on the title page without inscription or personalization.

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From the Flaps: A delightful revel for any reader who has ever longed to spend just a few more hours in the company of Jane Austen's engaging people, Bennets, Darcys, Collins, and de Bourghs.

Here, in this witty sequel to Pride and Prejudice, are all of our old friends, and some newer ones too. In the idyllic serenity of their great house Pemberley, we find Georgiana Darcy, now under the happy tutelage of her young sister-in-law Elizabeth Bennet Darcy. At seventeen years she is just coming to womanhood.

Georgiana, romantic by nature, has been wounded by her previous misadventure with Lieutenant George Wickham, and has vowed to give her heart to no man. Her vow, however, is sorely put to the test by the attentions of the gallant Captain Thomas Heywood, newly returned from the Naval Wars. No such threat is posed by James Leigh-Cooper, a brilliant architect engaged by Fitzwilliam Darcy for improvements upon his Derberyshire estate; this guileless, plain-spoken admirer somehow succeeds in nettling Georgiana at their every encounter.

Meanwhile, the unfortunate Bennet clan is beset by its share of woes. Although both Elizabeth and Jane are now grandly married, a new scandal involving their foolish Aunt Philips of Meryton promises to ruin the family's reputation forever.

How the Bennet name is cleared, and how Georgiana finds love after all, is a tale artfully unfolded in this enchanting tribute to England's best-loved novelist.

Gabrielle Donnelly and Julia Braun Kessler are JULIA BARRETT. Julia Braun Kessler, writer, editor, lecturer, and journalist, has published more than 200 articles on the arts in national periodicals. She is a regular interviewer for Book Page. Gabrielle Donnelly is the author of the well-received novels Faulty Ground, Holy Mother, and All Done with Mirrors.

Condition: Bindings - very good, minor bumping at top and bottom of spines, copy one has wrinkling of the front pastedown, copy 2 has a slightly bumped bottom rear corner, all three copies have a little dust soiling of the top page edges. Dust jacket - near fine, slight edgewear and wrinkling, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector.

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