{"id":1769,"date":"2008-05-18T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T21:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-05-18T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T21:55:38","slug":"these-three-remain-by-pamela-aidan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/these-three-remain-by-pamela-aidan\/","title":{"rendered":"These Three Remain<\/i>, by Pamela Aidan"},"content":{"rendered":"

_Pride and Prejudice_ has already played a great role in Rosie’s life. I bought a new “Everyman’s Library edition”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679405429\/octothorppres-20 particularly to pack in my hospital bag. We’ve already compared Rosie to “Lady Catherine de Bourgh”:\/news\/2008\/im-extremely-put-out\/ and just lately, even to the besotted crank Mr. Hurst<\/a>! We (or at least our doula, Dora) watched all six hours of the “1995 BBC mini-series”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005MP58\/octothorppres-20 while “labor”:\/news\/2008\/rosies-labor-the-cliffs-notes\/ was ramping up. And the first book I read while nursing Rosie at the hospital was this novel: _These Three Remain,_ a version of _Pride and Prejudice_ from Mr. Darcy’s perspective. <\/p>\n

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There is a whole subculture of Jane Austen-ites who read and write books centered around her characters and stories. “What happens after _Pride and Prejudice_ ends?” is the usual question, and the answers vary widely in quality. The first foray I took into this post-Austen genre was an entertaining series by “Carrie Bebris”:http:\/\/www.carriebebris.com\/Darcy_mysteries.html that imagines Mr. and Mrs. Darcy’s life after the wedding day, and, oddly, casts them into the roles of amateur detectives. Other series take on a rather less wholesome perspective, and end up more like trashy romance novels than works of great literature. <\/p>\n

“Pamela Aidan’s trilogy”:http:\/\/crownhillwriters.com\/AUS\/index.html, however, is a quite fascinating look at our favorite love story from a different point of view. Aidan takes three books to follow _Pride and Prejudice_ through from Darcy’s world. Since Darcy is not featured in many sections of Austen’s novel, this requires some creativity from Aidan, who develops a few new plotlines to fill in the gaps. While some of the extra-Austenian material is unusual (and maybe a bit far-fetched), the author does a great job describing the process of personal transformation Mr. Darcy goes through within this story. _Pride and Prejudice_ is so perfect in itself that it is hard to imagine another book uncovering new depth in this story, but Pamela Aidan takes a stab at it with a good measure of success.<\/p>\n

_These Three Remain_ is the third book in the trilogy, the first being “_An Assembly Such As This_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743291344\/octothorppres-20. I definitely recommend this series for all of you Austen freaks out there — you know who you are!<\/p>\n

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Considered in this review: “_These Three Remain_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743291379\/octothorppres-20, by Pamela Aidan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

_Pride and Prejudice_ has already played a great role in Rosie’s life. I bought a new “Everyman’s Library edition”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679405429\/octothorppres-20 particularly to pack in my hospital bag. We’ve already compared Rosie to “Lady Catherine de Bourgh”:\/news\/2008\/im-extremely-put-out\/ and just lately, even to the besotted crank Mr. Hurst! We (or at least our doula, Dora) watched all six … <\/p>\n

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