The Angel of Grove Street: A Novel of the Darcys and Bennets

This story is primarily about Darcy and Elizabeth, but also includes much about Elizabeth’s sisters, Kitty, Mary, and Lydia. Georgiana Darcy and Col. Fitzwilliam are also featured in the story, as well as some characters introduced in earlier books.

Darcy first meets Elizabeth at the beginning of the book when she is 22 and visits Pemberley. Prior to the start of this story, Mr. Bennet died while looking for Lydia, who had eloped with Wickham. Thus, Longbourn has been lost to the Bennet family through the entail on the estate. The sisters, except for Jane, who has married, are living with relatives.

Elizabeth now lives in London with her Uncle and Aunt Gardiner, who are successful merchants and has come to love the varied life there in which she helps her uncle and aunt in their businesses, volunteers at the aunt’s favorite charity, and sings at times in her aunt and uncle’s café. To win Elizabeth, Darcy must overlook the fact that she is now essentially living as the daughter of a merchant, and Elizabeth, who has so taken to her active and fulfilling life in London, must decide if she is willing to leave it for the more sedentary life of the mistress of a country estate? Furthermore, Darcy is not the only one who comes to believe Elizabeth may be the perfect wife. In addition to their story, Lydia, who had completely disappeared for two years, returns with quite a tale to tell, and Mary finds love in an unexpected place.