Pemberley Remembered - Softcover

Simonsen, Mary Lydon

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ISBN 10: 0979893305 ISBN 13: 9780979893308

Publisher: TRC Castle Garden Publishing, 2007

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While visiting Montclair, an 18th Century Georgian country house located in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, Maggie Joyce, a 22-year old American living in postwar London, is told that the former residents of the mansion, William Lacey and Elizabeth Garrison, were the inspiration for the characters of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's masterpiece, Pride & Prejudice, and that Montclair is the novel's Pemberley. During her visit to the nearby Village of Crofton, Maggie meets Beth and Jack Crowell, both of whom have ties to the Lacey family and Montclair, and who know if the legends associated with the house and Fitzwilliam Darcy are true. While exploring the truth behind the romance of Darcy and Elizabeth, Maggie is drawn into the love story of the Crowells, who married in the midst of the horrors of World War I, as well as her own love story with Rob McAllister, an American who flew on bombing missions over Germany during World War II, and who has returned to England for his own deeply personal reasons. Pemberley Remembered is a story of lovers who bridge class differences in Regency England, but it is also speaks to love and loss in postwar England.

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From the Author:

In writing Pemberley Remembered, I have combined my love of Jane Austen's novels with my other interests, specifically, the history of Regency England, The Great War and World War II. Through my main character, Maggie Joyce, I was also able to write about Minooka, Pennsylvania, a town in the Pocono Mountains, where my parents grew up during the Depression. Even though Minooka had fallen on hard times, I was fascinated by this little coal-mining town that held so much of the history of my family. Maggie represents the millions of women who joined the workforce during World War II and who were such an important part of the war effort. Once Maggie boarded the train from Minooka to Washington, a whole new world opened up for her, and it is through her eyes, that we see postwar England and Mr. Darcy's Pemberley.

About the Author:

I have been captivated by the novels of Jane Austen since I first read Pride & Prejudice in English class at Elmwood Park High School in northern New Jersey. After retiring from a career as a legal secretary in Dallas, Texas and a second career as a special education assistant in the Howard County, Maryland and Peoria, Arizona School Districts, I turned my attention to writing a novel that has been swirling around in my head for about ten years. That story is Pemberley Remembered.

After crisscrossing the country, my husband of 30+ years and I finally settled in Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, where our two grown daughters, Meg and Kate, and my grandchild, Kaelyn, also live. Paul and I spend most of our time in the Valley of the Sun, but when the temperatures hit the double digits, we head up to the High Country to our second home in Flagstaff--a cool retreat and a great place to write a book.

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