Behind Highbury’s Graces

An Emma Variation

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived nearly twenty-one years with very little to vex her, or so it would appear.

In Highbury, she is the accomplished mistress of Hartfield; in private, a devoted daughter, quietly attending to an ailing father while bearing the cares of the estate alone.

Colonel George Knightley returns from the wars a hero of the Peninsula. Yet beneath his composed and disciplined manner lies a mind not easily at rest, troubled by the recollection of all he has endured.

When these two guarded spirits meet, they are not inclined to think well of one another. But as the ease of Highbury society begins to give way, each must consider whether truth may be borne, and whether an attachment founded upon it might yet be endured.

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If you're anything like me, you've fallen in love with Jane Austen's world and want to understand it more deeply. You've wondered about the constraints, the economics, the social rules, the daily realities that shaped Elizabeth Bennet's choices.

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