{"id":19,"date":"2011-11-13T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2011-11-13T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:35:11","slug":"presumption-by-julia-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Presumption by Julia Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presumption<\/em> is a sequel to Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d, written by Julia Braun Kessler and Gabrielle Donnelly as \u2018Julia Barrett\u2019. At the end of Miss Austen\u2019s 17<sup>th<\/sup> century novel, Elizabeth Bennet married Fitzwilliam Darcy. It was obvious to Gentle Reader that married life was not going to be plain sailing for two such strong-willed characters, and so it runs out in this novel. \u201cPresumption\u201d is written in the same formal yet witty style as Miss Austen\u2019s and it is to their credit that Kessler and Donnelly never allow 20<sup>th<\/sup> century attitudes or language to spoil the story. By contrast, Georgette Hayer\u2019s enjoyable Regency novels are set in the same period, yet they could not have been written by anyone but a more modern author.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presumption<\/em> is a little disappointing however. The authors seem to have been unable to think of a story based around Elizabeth and Darcy. Instead the story revolves around Darcy\u2019s younger sister Georgiana. In \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d, Georgiana is narrowly rescued from a disastrous elopement with a distant cousin, Whickham, and now there is more trouble for the Darcy family. Georgiana has vowed never to loose her head and her heart again. But one Captain Haywood begins to woo her with determination, armed with Lord Byron\u2019s verses. Meanwhile, her brother\u2019s architect, Leigh-Cooper, adds to her confusion.<\/p>\n<p>In the original, pride and prejudice was owned in equal amounts by the haphazard Bennets and by the noble families of the county. In this version, the upper class residents presume that, having married beneath him, Darcy is doomed to a life of scandal and despair. Both novels use the uniquely British class system and all of Jane Austen\u2019s sharply portrayed examples are included in the modern version. They haughty lady Catherine de Bourgh, the obsequious Mr Collins and Elizabeth\u2019s hysterical mother are all so well drawn that it is easy to \u201csee\u201d them as they were in the old Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier film. The novel is an enchanting homage to Jane Austen\u2019s wit and skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumption is a sequel to Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d, written by Julia Braun Kessler and Gabrielle Donnelly as \u2018Julia Barrett\u2019. At the end of Miss Austen\u2019s 17th century novel, Elizabeth Bennet married Fitzwilliam Darcy. It was obvious to Gentle Reader that married life was not going to be plain sailing for two such strong-willed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,15,19],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-novel","tag-barrett","tag-historical","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/book-ish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}