Nor is Austen the only author who’s created realistic characters. Captivated by the dark drama of Wuthering Heights, we visit Haworth, home of the famous Brontë family drawn into Emily Dickinson’s poetic vision, we tour the unassuming clapboard farmhouse where she slowly retreated to a life of solitude and poetry. Why do so many people love Austen so intensely, and in such a personal way?Īusten certainly isn’t the only literary celebrity among Anglo-American authors whose work inspires interest in her life. Surely this trust couldn’t be separated from the great love I had for Austen.
Had I been a more daring scholar, I might have realized that my youthful folly had posed some interesting questions: Why did I look to Austen and her characters for guidance about how to live my own life? And I’m not, by far, the only one to do this. For my next chapter, I returned to graduate school, pursuing a doctorate in English literature and specializing in Austen and other novelists of her time. To be fair, I know my husband felt the same way, although I don’t think he blamed Austen for his mistake.įor better or worse, my hasty marriage was simple to undo-at least with respect to its legal and social aspects. The romantic Emma would never have been satisfied with gratitude and esteem, and neither was I. If they were good enough for Elizabeth, why wouldn’t they be good enough for me? But I wasn’t Elizabeth I was much more like Emma, a far more flawed heroine. Elizabeth Bennet married for gratitude and esteem, and these were exactly the feelings I had for my first husband. 'A delightful story of great charm, very quirky and original.' Jacqueline Wilson.I blame my first marriage on Jane Austen. 'Wilfred's sentimental education is wrought so delightfully and affectionately.' Sunday Times. Praise for The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price: 'Light, compassionate drama about a small, very tightly bound, ancient corner of the world.' The Guardian. Despite Wilfred's earnest effort to embrace the future, he is beginning to wonder if the past has too powerful a hold on him.
But Grace has a secret, one that can't be hidden forever, and binds her to her old life in west Wales. As much as he loves Flora, he senses her distance from him - are marriage and fatherhood going to be very different from how Wilfred imagined? Grace has fled to from Narberth to London, where she is working as a chambermaid at the luxurious Ritz Hotel. He's busy with funerals - and preparing for fatherhood by reading a philosophy book and opening a paint and wallpaper business. His brief and painful marriage to Grace is in the past. It's 1926 and Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals, is newly married to the beautiful Flora Myfanwy.
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