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Illusions and Ignorance: Mary Bennet's Story

par Eucharista Ward

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This book is a romance which revisits the Bennet Family a few years after Pride and Prejudice. In it, Mary Bennet, is the key to all the action, just as Elizabeth was key to the action of Pride and Prejudice. Mary, who is under the impression that Elizabeth was married well only in order to provide for her sisters, relaxes in the happy thought that she will never have to marry. Mrs. Bennet refuses to accept such a future for her, and works to change her mind. Meanwhile, her observation of her older sister Janes happy situation, even with the unmarried sister (Carolyn Bingley) living with them, convinces Mary that she could just as well live out her life with Elizabeth and Darcy. Carolyns later marriage to Darcys cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Janes rather obvious relief, give her second thoughts. Her study of marriage through her sisters experiences continues to change her mind, as does her new appreciation of her parents marriage and that of her Aunt Gardiner. In the end, circumstances settle the whole puzzle for her, quite to her satisfaction.… (plus d'informations)
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One of the better P+P sequels I've read; this focuses on Mary Bennet rather than Elizabeth. Mary was given short shrift in canon, but this is a sympathetic take on her, without rewriting her so's to be unrecognisable. As it's a sequel, Ward has allowed herself a maturer Mary, who, like Fanny Price, has been affected by the evangelical revival that was becoming stronger towards the end of Austen's life. In fact Mary B's earnestness and anxiety to be good reminded me of Charlotte Yonge's heroines, written in the following generation.

As it's from Mary's pov, the reader gets a sense of her unawareness of Lizzie's private life, and also of why Mary might behave the way she does. Ward clearly has a soft spot for her heroine, offering her a buffet of 3 rival suitors of varying dispositions, one of whom she chooses at the end. Marrying single P+P characters off is the preoccupation of the book, along with the usual machinations from Wickham and a family crisis for Col Fitzwilliam.

The last pages hastily tie off what loose ends there are in somewhat bullet-point style - a bit too hastily. ( )
  nessreader | Oct 10, 2008 |
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This book is a romance which revisits the Bennet Family a few years after Pride and Prejudice. In it, Mary Bennet, is the key to all the action, just as Elizabeth was key to the action of Pride and Prejudice. Mary, who is under the impression that Elizabeth was married well only in order to provide for her sisters, relaxes in the happy thought that she will never have to marry. Mrs. Bennet refuses to accept such a future for her, and works to change her mind. Meanwhile, her observation of her older sister Janes happy situation, even with the unmarried sister (Carolyn Bingley) living with them, convinces Mary that she could just as well live out her life with Elizabeth and Darcy. Carolyns later marriage to Darcys cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Janes rather obvious relief, give her second thoughts. Her study of marriage through her sisters experiences continues to change her mind, as does her new appreciation of her parents marriage and that of her Aunt Gardiner. In the end, circumstances settle the whole puzzle for her, quite to her satisfaction.

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