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Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, Mary, bookish, awkward, and by all accounts, unmarriageable, is sentenced to a dull, provincial existence in the backwaters of Britain. Now, master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes. The story begins as the neglected Bennet sister is released from the stultifying duty of caring for her insufferable mother. Though many would call a woman of Mary's age a spinster, she has blossomed into a beauty to rival that of her famed sisters. Her violet eyes and perfect figure bewitch the eligible men in the neighborhood, but though her family urges her to marry, romance and frippery hold no attraction. Instead, she is determined to set off on an adventure of her own. Fired with zeal by the newspaper letters of the mysterious Argus, she resolves to publish a book about the plight of England's poor. Plunging from one predicament into another, Mary finds herself stumbling closer to long-buried secrets, unanticipated dangers, and unlooked-for romance.

Meanwhile, the other dearly loved characters of Pride and Prejudice fret about the missing Mary while they contend with difficulties of their own. Darcy's political ambitions consume his ardor, and he bothers with Elizabeth only when the impropriety of her family seems to threaten his career. Lydia, wild and charming as ever, drinks and philanders her way into dire straits; Kitty, a young widow of means, occupies herself with gossip and shopping; and Jane, naïve and trusting as ever, spends her days ministering to her crop of boys and her adoring, if not entirely faithful, husband. Yet, with the shadowy and mysterious figure of DarcyÕs right-hand man, Ned Skinner, lurking at every corner, it is clear that all is not what it seems at idyllic Pemberley. As the many threads of McCulloughÕs masterful plot come together, shocking truths are revealed, love, both old and new, is tested, and all learn the value of true independence in a novel for every woman who has wanted to leave her mark on the world.



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Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neuropathologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. She lives on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific with her husband, Ric Robinson.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Independence of Miss Mary Bennet - A poor attempt at a sequel, Sep 7 2009
I have liked previous works by Colleen McCullough, but she does her readers and Jane Austen a serious disservice with this book.

I love Jane Austen and P&P and in my mind, this book only borrows the characters names. It does not stay true to any of the characters' personalities that Jane Austen created and the storyline becomes so "beyond belief" as to be ridiculous and very off-putting. There may have been hope for ending the story on a good note, but even that became a poor joke as it seems that the author didn't know how to end the story she'd created and so, wrote down the first thing she thought of just to get it over with. I was incredibly disappointed in this book and would not recommend it to anyone who considers themselves an Jane Austen fan and a Pride & Prejudice devotee.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 My Pride is Prejudiced, Avril 23 2009
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I'm usually disappointed in sequels, especially of Jane Austen's fine novels; but I've always believed Mary Bennet(the serious minded middle daughter in 'Pride and Prejudice')was undeservedly called 'silly' and, therefore, deserved to show she was sensible (though somewhat priggish). Since I enjoyed Colleen McCullough's 'Sulla to Caesar' historical novels, I thought this version would not diappoint.
Alas, it did.
Her story takes place 20 years after 'Pride and Prejudice'. The silly Mrs. Bennet dies just as tea is brought in, (quite peacefully actually, considering her famous nerves) Miss Mary Bennet can now go her single and single-minded way, investigate the conditions of the poor, write about them and thus make her own difference in the world - just like her hero, the muck-raking political journalist 'Argus'. Her relatives believe Mary has been too sheltered to care for herself and want her to stay that way. Mr. Darcy is very much against her oddysey. He's at the point of becoming the next great Conservative Prime Minister, and Mary's crusade will embarrass him and he will lose all the political support he's built up.
Mary does get into trouble. I'll leave the rest for you to read.
I think Mary's story needed to begin much earlier. At the latest, the moment her father died and she, her mother and sister Kitty, had to leave Longbourne to the heir, Mr. Collins. Mary would have had a lot of stress, living with a frivillous mother and sister, and that would have developed her into a strong woman - or not. Here, Mary is already able to take care of herself (since she has taken care of her mother and their household needs) and she has lost most of her priggish manner. All she has to do is prove it to her kinfolk. I didn't get to see Mary develop her self awareness, her struggles with being the uncourted spinster. Here, she is courted by two men because she's suddenly beautiful and available.
If she became a beauty, it didn't see realistic that she was still unwed at 38 - even if the husband had to take Mrs. B as a live in mother-in-law. I don't recall Mary having blemishes, except perhaps for 'spots' (what may have been acne or cowpox scars) in 'P & P'. Certainly not crooked teeth. I'm sure she was passibly pretty, but her hair would not have improved. She was a bookworm. She must have been nearsighted. What happened to her spectacles?
Other niggles. The large one about Mr. Darcy's 'fixer'. I don't believe the man could have been closer to him than his sister Georgiana. Mr. Bingley as a tycoon, especially with 'interests' in Jamaica. Shy Mr. Bingley, a slaver and sexed up? Mr. Darcy's father's evil reputation. He was an upstanding man in P. & P. Jane Bennet Bingley as a droopy dishrag. Jane was considerate, but not a doormat. She knew her worth.
I know each reader of 'Pride & Prejudice' has her own ideas as to what happened to the characters after Fitzwilliam's and Lizzie's wedding and that mine would not be Ms. McCullough's; but her ideas are certainly not mine.
It's like other other modern 'Regency' romances; perhaps more sound and less sexed up. Not satisfactory as an Austen sequel though.The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
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