by Diane Morris | Dec 29, 2018 | Inheritance, Regency Women
My previous blog provided short biographies of three women who inherited real property—by which I mean land, houses, farm buildings, and the like: Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth Doughty, and Mrs. Eleanor Frances Dixie Pochin. Here are short...
by Diane Morris | Aug 10, 2014 | Life & Times, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Fitzwilliam Darcy was the handsome, wealthy gentleman who fell in love with the sparkling Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth’s mother was confounded and amazed to hear that her daughter would marry a man of fortune, especially as she at first thought...