The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, by Colleen McCullough

August 4, 2017

*The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet*, by Colleen McCullough (Pocket Books, reprint edition, Nov. 24 2009)

Colleen McCullough had women’s liberation on her agenda for a long time: The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987) is about the blossoming of a spinsterish poor relation. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet is more of the same – much more, an historical romance straggled together with every imaginable element of a bodice-ripper: a spinster with potential, handsome lords, highwaymen, rakes, royalty, slatterns, orphans, hermits, belated sex, and a no-holds-barred romantic ending. It is all highly unlikely and rambling, perhaps the author had actually intended it to be a Regency comedy of manners, rather than, as stated on the cover, a plausible sequel to Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice.

Australian Colleen McCullough died in 2015. Read more here.

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