Jane Austen Sequels- Mr. Darcy’s Daughters, by Elizabeth Aston
If you know anything about English literature you will know who Jane Austen is. Several of her novels from the early 19th century are perennial favorites. Sense and Sensibility and Emma are two of the best known, but it is Pride and Prejudice with whom modern readers are infatuated. We just can not seem to get enough of the ever loyal Mr. Darcy and his lady love, the spunky and impertinent Elizabeth Bennet. What you may not know is that a whole sub-genre of fiction has developed into an ever growing market for sequels of Pride and Prejudice and variations of several of her other novels.
Elizabeth Aston is one of the favorite Jane Austen sequels writers and had many such novels to her credit which depict the lives of the Darcy family after the marriage of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth. Mr. Darcy’s Daughters is the first of seven published novels in the Darcy Novels series.
In Darcy’s Daughters, Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet, protagonists of the original novel have been married for some time and are now the Master and Mistress of Pemberley. The Darcy’s family now consists of five grown daughters and two grown sons. The daughters are left in the care of a relative in London when their parents go on a diplomatic mission, and romantic entanglements soon ensue.
This novel is engaging and has a romantic plot which will keep period romance novel enthusiasts well entertained. It will also appeal to those who love the original novel, with elegant balls, elaborate gowns, and the dictates of polite society in large doses. I found myself turning the pages quickly to see what would happen next, and a fair amount of tension is generated as the story progresses.
I found this novel to be a delightful diversion which had me ordering several of Aston’s other books as soon as I had finished Darcy’s Daughters. While I missed a story surrounding the now middle aged Darcy and Elizabeth, the younger generation with their trials and tribulations I found quite diverting.
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