![]() Nor is the young woman alone in being a magnet for drama. Alethea Napier (nee Darcy) makes a disastrous misalliance for understandable reasons–she is on the rebound from someone who took her virginity but did not propose marriage and falls in love with a superficially charming and wealthy person who ends up being an abusive and insanely jealous flagellant who openly keeps his mistress in his house as a torment to his young wife, who quite naturally seeks to escape him and brings upon herself the madcap adventures of this novel. ![]() Both the hero and heroine of this particular novel are meant by the author to be highly appealing to contemporary audiences but also somewhat daring to the past in ways that I thought undercut their appeal to me personally. Throughout her body of work, Elizabeth Aston has written a lot about the Darcy family as she imagines them in the next generation, making these novels anachronistic in their dealing with concerns and behavior that is more au currant than it was of the times that she is supposed to be writing in, roughly the period just before the Victorian age, when English royalty was at a particularly decadent level. ![]() This was a hard novel to really appreciate. The Exploits And Adventures Of Miss Alethea Darcy (Darcy #2), by Elizabeth Aston ![]()
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