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The Heiress: The Revelation of Pride & Prejudice’s Miss Anne de Bourgh Hardcover
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- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.8 x 3.8 x 23.6 cm
- ISBN-101529358027
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- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1529358027
- ISBN-13 : 978-1529358025
- Item weight : 580 g
- Dimensions : 15.8 x 3.8 x 23.6 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,998,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Molly Greeley is the author of The Clergyman's Wife and The Heiress. She lives in northern Michigan with her husband and three children, and can often be found with her laptop at local coffee shops.
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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2021
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I don’t often stop reading a book, but I quit reading this at 50%. The writing is good, but overall I found the story a dark, depressing tale. It may get better in subsequent chapters, but when I get no joy from reading, it’s a waste of my time.
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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 18, 2021
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"I was forever waiting, without knowing quite what it was I was waiting for." (quote from the book)
In 'The Heiress', Ms Greeley takes us on an intense sensory journey of Miss Anne de Bourgh's life. Having been prescribed 'a tincture of laudanum' since infancy, you experience the languor, the lethargic weightiness the drug induces, and the poignancy of her childhood. Her life is sustained by the fairy tales her nurse tells her...offering visuals in her mind, hazed by her medication, as the drug takes its inevitable path to sleep.
"Memories of my early life began slow and dreamy as any of my nurse's stories. they meander like dust motes in the shafts of sunlight that came in through the nursery window." (quote from the book)
This is a 'frank', fictionalized autobiography told in Anne's own words that has a gothic twist. Anne has a deep connection to Rosings Park and it is this, and eventually the words of her governess, that slowly give her the impetus to break free of her medication and her mother. And you experience it all...the withdrawal, the fear, finding her courage and love. Love that may be outside societal strictures of the time, but everyone needs someone to love.
"All my life, I had been dormant as a winter tree, waiting for a spring that never came." (quote from the book)
I was mesmerized by this story as if I had been drugged and was floating along with Anne on her journey. The writing is evocative, exquisite and haunting. Again, as in her debut novel 'The Clergyman's Wife', Ms. Greeley's prose pulls forth emotions and makes you 'feel'. It certainly did with me.
I highly recommend this novel that explores the 'sickly' character of Anne de Bourgh who was meant from birth to be the wife of Fitzwilliam Darcy.
In 'The Heiress', Ms Greeley takes us on an intense sensory journey of Miss Anne de Bourgh's life. Having been prescribed 'a tincture of laudanum' since infancy, you experience the languor, the lethargic weightiness the drug induces, and the poignancy of her childhood. Her life is sustained by the fairy tales her nurse tells her...offering visuals in her mind, hazed by her medication, as the drug takes its inevitable path to sleep.
"Memories of my early life began slow and dreamy as any of my nurse's stories. they meander like dust motes in the shafts of sunlight that came in through the nursery window." (quote from the book)
This is a 'frank', fictionalized autobiography told in Anne's own words that has a gothic twist. Anne has a deep connection to Rosings Park and it is this, and eventually the words of her governess, that slowly give her the impetus to break free of her medication and her mother. And you experience it all...the withdrawal, the fear, finding her courage and love. Love that may be outside societal strictures of the time, but everyone needs someone to love.
"All my life, I had been dormant as a winter tree, waiting for a spring that never came." (quote from the book)
I was mesmerized by this story as if I had been drugged and was floating along with Anne on her journey. The writing is evocative, exquisite and haunting. Again, as in her debut novel 'The Clergyman's Wife', Ms. Greeley's prose pulls forth emotions and makes you 'feel'. It certainly did with me.
I highly recommend this novel that explores the 'sickly' character of Anne de Bourgh who was meant from birth to be the wife of Fitzwilliam Darcy.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 20, 2022Verified Purchase
It was nice how the character of Anne De Bourgh was brought to life. It was all out together perfectly.

Jessica Bull
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Blew me away.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2022Verified Purchase
This novel completely blew me away. I will never look at Anne De Bourgh in the same light ever again. I loved it.


Jessica Bull
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2022
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AliE
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written
Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on June 1, 2021Verified Purchase
I never read the synopsis on this one before picking it up, I just started it because of how much I enjoyed The Clergyman’s Wife.
And I ended up adoring this one. The writing is beautiful and I love how the story grows as Anne grows and manages to escape the haze of the laudanum that drugs her. I loved the relationship, but more how right it seemed that Anne should love who she wished.
And I ended up adoring this one. The writing is beautiful and I love how the story grows as Anne grows and manages to escape the haze of the laudanum that drugs her. I loved the relationship, but more how right it seemed that Anne should love who she wished.

mag. monika g
5.0 out of 5 stars
Erstaunlich
Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on August 22, 2022Verified Purchase
Eine faszinierende und oft überraschende Auseinandersetzung mit einer Person, die im Roman "Pride and Prejudice" ganz und gar nicht gut wegkommt. A good read.

Claudia
5.0 out of 5 stars
5 stars book of the year!
Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on November 25, 2021Verified Purchase
If you’re a sapphic and want to cry read this book. It’s beautifully written and I’d die for Eliza