Mrs. Gardiner Takes a Hand: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

✍ Scribed by Jeannie Peneaux

• Book ID: 115307433
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

“You must come home instantly and make our horrid aunt Gardiner go away to London again. I do not know why Jane and Lizzy liked so much to stay in Gracechurch Street, for our aunt is most unfair. She read me an odiously dull lecture, which was so long that I scarce could have been expected to listen attentively, and then this morning dared to tell me that the consequence of ignoring her was quite my own fault.”

Mrs. Bennet and her sister are bound for Bath to take the waters. The mistress of Longbourn could not part from her duties if it were not for Mrs. Gardiner of Gracechurch Street. At Elizabeth’s request, her favourite aunt has offered to take up residence for the few months Mrs. Bennet is absent. Mrs. Bennet may doubt that her brother’s wife could manage her family even half so well as she, but as she considers the attractions of Bath, she assures herself that no permanent alterations could possibly be made.

Aunt Gardiner hopes otherwise.

Mrs. Gardiner Takes a Hand, the seventh Pride and Prejudice variation by Jeannie Peneaux, is an epistolary novel. Letters are sent to the most surprising people and read with varying degrees of alarm and pleasure.