title: Darcy on the Hudson: A Pride and Prejudice Re-imagining
author:  Mary Lydon Simonsen 
description: If you are looking for an Austenesque novel with just the right amount of historical content, Mary Simonsen is an author you simply must check out... [She] has proven numerous times that she is quite proficient when it comes to entwining history and Jane Austen! I loved this book. Brava, Mary!<br /><br /><span>If you're willing to keep an open mind with the character changes, and would like see Darcy and Elizabeth thrown into a new location and situation, then I highly recommend</span><i>Darcy on the Hudson</i><span>. The ending alone will have any romantichead over heels in love withDarcy all over again. - Reflections of a Book Addict</span>
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  # **PART III**  
   **April, 1634**  
   ** _And lovely is the rose_**
  
  ## **Chapter 11**
  
  ### **_Iuventus Speratus_**  
   ** _Grantville_**
  
  "It certainly is nice that so many people came to see us off, isn't it?"
  Veronica Dreeson looked at the crowd with pleasure. "It is a great compliment
  to Henry, I am sure. And to John, of course."
  
  Mary Simpson, already mounted, looked out over the crowd. She preferred to
  ride in formal costume--jodphurs, coat, and bowler--even in the seventeenth
  century. The Grantville tailors were by now used to getting odd orders, but
  this.... Leonhard Kalbacher had just looked at her sketch, sighed, and gone to
  work with his measuring tape, thanking his lucky stars that the boots and hat
  were someone else's problem. Mary Simpson's stance on horseback was a tribute
  to what a young ladies' finishing school could achieve when it deemed a skill
  to be truly life-essential.
  
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