Mary B A Novel: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice

Katherine J. Chen

eBook - 2018

“Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to [Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era.”—USA TodayThe overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLEWhat is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited wit of second-born Lizzy. Even compared to her frivolous younger siblings, Kitty and Lydia, Mary knows she is lacking in the ways that matter for single, not-so-well-to-do women in nineteenth-century England who must secure their futures through the finding of a husband. As her sisters wed, one by one, Mary picture...s herself growing old, a spinster with no estate to run or children to mind, dependent on the charity of others. At least she has the silent... more