Author's Note (10/19/22)

I edited the first chapter to add this but wanted to include it as an end note as well.

In fact, this is not so much an author's note as it is a disclaimer. Having recently reread Childhood Impressions, I find it necessary to caution that I was in middle school when I wrote it. Since you have (conceivably) made it to the end of this first installment, I sincerely thank you for tolerating the myriad spelling, grammar & vocabulary mistakes you doubtless encountered throughout. Please do reserve judgment until you read Mr. Bennet's Daughter, which I hope reflects more authorial maturity.

One other note – I returned to this forum after several years attempting to be (oxymoronically?) a good lawyer. A role that so many American humanities majors are conscripted into (for reasons that are not worth getting into here) and subsequently embittered by. See, e.g., Sonny Curtis, The Crickets, "I Fought the Law" (1958) ("I fought the law and the law won."); see also The Smiths, "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (1994) ("I bear more grudges than lonely high court judges.").

Having recently stepped back from it all, I rediscovered Jane Austen fanfiction, which so sustained me in my younger & more vulnerable years. (One of my favorite comments to Mr. Bennet's Daughter is from a guest who said in a postscript, "One day, you might be old enough to write fan fiction again!" How prescient this was.). More to come on this after I complete Mr. Bennet's Daughter.

I very much love (and am highly motivated by) comments, so please do drop me a line or message me. Rediscovering the comments and messages is why I decided to complete Mr. Bennet's Daughter so many odd years later.

Much love always,

Lady Sue