The independence of Miss Mary Bennet

McCullough, Colleen, 1937-2015.

Large Print 2008

"Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, sister Mary, bookish and awkward, is sentenced to a provincial existence. Twenty years after Austen's novel closes, Mary is released from the stultifying duty of caring for her insufferable mother. Fired with zeal by the newspaper letters of the mysterious Argus, she resolves to publish a book about the plight of Eng...

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