Miss Bingley Requests
A Pride and Prejudice Regency Variation
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Publisher Description
This is the story of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of Caroline Bingley, who has always believed she will marry Darcy. However, she meets and falls in love with Mr Tryphon, and becomes torn between what she has always expected her life would be and her desire for Mr Tryphon. In the end, despite the emotional cost to her, she gives up Mr Tryphon because he has no money and no status.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McCrosky (Lifting Weights) retells Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of Mr. Bingley's unmarried sister, Caroline, in this ambitious pastiche, which takes some passages from the original and adds new material recounting the activities of the Bingley family apart from the Bennets, both in the country and in London. Familiar situations, such as Jane Bennet's illness at Netherfield, appear quite differently through Caroline's eyes, and the social machinations of Lady Amesbury, a sophisticated and well-connected widow who befriends Caroline and introduces her to a "recent but already dear, dear friend," Stephen Tryphon, enliven the London scenes. Stephen becomes Caroline's ardent suitor, though she has cast her eye on Mr. Darcy and becoming the mistress of Pemberley. Unfortunately, Caroline does not come off as a very pleasant character. Initially vain and self-satisfied, she becomes increasingly arrogant in an apparent effort to mask her insecurity. Still, Austen fans will likely enjoy this variation on a theme.
