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A review by blancwene
North By Northanger: Or The Shades of Pemberley by Carrie Bebris
2.0
On the super gothic front, this P&P mystery was much more...calmer, I guess? The supernatural stuff wasn't overt this time; there was a ghost, possibly, but this time it more boiled down to "people can be awful and scheming, and even Lady Catherine de Bourgh has a propensity for pettiness" rather than "a cursed item is wrecking havoc again!" And there was no murder(s) in this one: just Darcy and Elizabeth being falsely accused of theft, and a missing heirloom for them to find.
I have to take issue, though, with the name of their daughter at the end. Lily-Anne?? I don't think they hyphenated first names during the Regency period. And why pick Lily-Anne when you could use Lilyanne or Lillian, the latter of which is derived from either Lily or Elizabeth and has been used in England since the 16th century?
I have to take issue, though, with the name of their daughter at the end. Lily-Anne?? I don't think they hyphenated first names during the Regency period. And why pick Lily-Anne when you could use Lilyanne or Lillian, the latter of which is derived from either Lily or Elizabeth and has been used in England since the 16th century?