title: By a Lady: Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England
author:  Amanda Elyot 
description: Offering a picturesque dose of time travel, romance and the atmosphere of 19th-century England, Elyot follows actress C.J. Welles as she is mysteriously transported between present-day Manhattan and Bath of 1801. After an unfortunate stint as "lady's companion" to the abusive Lady Eloisa Wickham, C.J.'s luck arrives in the form of Lady Dalrymple, a progressive thinker who opens her home and her purse to C.J., believing she is her long-lost niece. Despite the pleasures of her adventures in history, which include steamy romance with the dashing Lord Darlington and friendship with Lady Dalrymple's cousin Jane Austen, C.J. must search for the way back to Greenwich Village, where she's auditioning for the role of Jane Austen in a modern-day play. Although she has to struggle to get a grasp on the customs and expectations of the day, C.J. is swiftlyand somewhat unbelievablyaccepted as a British woman of the times. Occasionally, Elyot (pseudonymous author of <i>The Memoirs of Helen of Troy</i> and published elsewhere as Leslie Carroll) indulges in verbosity that thickens and slows the story, but there are plenty of upper-crust scandals and snobbery to keep anglophiles engaged. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **Penelope**
  
  By
  
   _ **Anya Wylde**_
  
    
  
  _Copyright 2010 Anya Wylde_
  
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  **Acknowledgement**
  
   _Thank you, John, for everything_
  
   _And_
  
   _Thank you, PG Wodehouse, for coining the word ‘canoozers’. It’s bloody
  brilliant!_
  
    
  
    
  
  **Prologue**
  
  It was April in England. Therefore, it stood to reason that it was raining.
  
  The English, it also stood to reason, were delighted because the weather was
  horrible and they had a reason to complain. But today the Londoners,
  specifically, were even more ecstatic because it was n