Some Regency Women Owned Property (Part 1)
Diane Morris | Thursday, September 20th, 2018 | Estate Management, Inheritance, Regency Women | No Comments
In 2014, when I started this blog, I had published my first novel, Rosings Park—a story about Anne de Bourgh. Miss de Bourgh, you may know, is a character in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Her claim to fame is that she was expected to marry her cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy, but didn’t. (He married Elizabeth Bennet.) […]
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Diane Morris | Friday, September 12th, 2014 | Estate Management, Pride and Prejudice | No Comments
Anne de Bourgh, the heroine of my novel, Rosings Park, is an heiress who inherited a considerable property when her father died. With his death she became the Master—now held accountable for her estate’s success and sometimes derided for being a woman standing in a man’s shoes. After reading Rosings Park, my dearest friend, Dawn-Marie […]
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