𝑀𝑦 𝐽𝐴𝐹𝐹 𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛

The essence of this story is that the main protagonists all achieve insight into their own characters. Each develops a different view of the world and their place in it. The story begins when Elizabeth Bennet returns from Hunsford, following Fitzwilliam Darcy’s dreadful proposal and their subsequent argument. She joins her sister Jane, at the Gracechurch Street house of their Aunt and Uncle Gardiner. Elizabeth has had her eyes opened, following her interactions with Darcy. She had thought him wicked and Mr Wickham to be all that was good. His revelations that Wickham is a rake and a scoundrel shatter her belief in her skills as a judge of character. Jane has been slowly recovering from her heartbreak over Charles Bingley’s abandonment. She has put aside her rose tinted view of the world, to recognise that the Bingley sisters are harpies and Charles Bingley is a weak character. This revelation has made her feel a great deal better about herself. When the newly minted Lord Lyfford meets

When Thomas Bennet is confined to his bed with a lingering but terminal illness, the Longbourn estate is left without management. He has no son to assist him, but a wife and five daughters to fret over. Due to an entail, Longbourn will belong to a distant cousin upon Bennet’s death and the Bennet women will be homeless. Fortunately, his second eldest daughter, Elizabeth is smart, determined and resilient. At only twenty, with no education in land management, Elizabeth takes on the care of Longbourn, with not only very little support but having to actively repel the many circling vultures. Family, friends and neighbors all prove themselves faithless, greedy and venal. Mr Darcy of Pemberley is known to be a trustworthy and capable landowner, who took on the responsibility at a young age. Elizabeth writes to him as E.R. Bennet, explaining the difficulties being faced and requesting advice. Darcy is happy to assist the young “man” and correspondence follows. Elizabeth moves forward with

After a stormy courtship of misunderstandings and conflict, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy find married bliss. Unfortunately, life starts to get in the way.   While friends and family fill their nurseries, Elizabeth and Darcy still have no family after five years of marriage. Darcy needs an heir, but the loss of Georgiana in childbirth and Elizabeth’s near fatal miscarriage haunt him. Elizabeth feels that she is failing him and desperately wants a baby. The distress changes Elizabeth’s sunny disposition and Darcy often feels he can never say the right thing. As a result, they become more and more distant from each other, with Darcy retreating behind his mask of haughtiness. They reach a point where desperate measures seem to be the only way to save their marriage. Elizabeth’s solution is shocking, but Darcy reluctantly agrees, whilst still hoping for an alternative. And so they depart for Italy, where they hope an answer awaits them. The distance between Darcy and Elizabeth is painful