Mr. Darcy’s Secret Blog Tour, An interview with Meredith Esparza, Austen Effusions, and Sisters.

I’ve some new updates on my website Austen Effusions about my new book, Mr. Darcy’s Secret, including an extract.  The painting featured I did a while ago of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet. I often wonder how closely the relationship that these two heroines share is mirrored in Jane Austen’s own life with her sister Cassandra.In Mr. Darcy’s Secret, [...]

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Willoughby’s Return Competition – Win a Painting of Jane and Cassandra

Sense and Sensibility centres on the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. They appear at first to be opposites – Elinor is rational and sensible and Marianne seems to think and act only on her impulsive feelings and highly charged emotions, though by the end of the book we have witnessed quite a [...]

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