When you write in a world built by another, you face various challenges. For example, you can never hope to match the genius of the original.

Although…one reader insists my writing is better than in Pride and Prejudice. I take the opinion with a pinch of salt because:

Anyway, listening to Kim Wilson talk on Love in the Shrubbery – Gardens in Jane Austen’s Life & Works last summer led me to take the Mignonette challenge. In a letter to her...