Baker’s idea is to give voice to the characters that Austen uses as window-dressing, primarily Sarah (the maid), Mrs. Longbourn is the story of the servants in the Bennet household while the events of Pride and Prejudice are unfolding. Specifically, Jane Austen fans were annoyed with this book. And most of what I was thinking was, why am I so annoyed with this book?Īs it happens, a lot of people were annoyed with this book. While listening to an OKCupid date talk about something hideously boring. And I wasn’t shoving it to the back of my mind the way I do with things I really just don’t want to get around to no, I was thinking about it all the time. At first I thought it was just because I was busy, but no, I was avoiding it even when I had plenty of time to work on it. I kept putting off this review, and I couldn’t figure out why. Recommended if you like: glimpses into the dirty underside of prim English country life Rating: 3.6 out of 5 soiled menstrual rags belonging to Elizabeth Bennet First line: “There could be no wearing of clothes without their laundering, just as surely as there could be no going without clothes, not in Hertfordshire anyway, and not in September.”
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