Mary Bennet: What happened to Austen's middle sister?
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English - February 04, 2020 21:10 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jane Austen bestowed Mary Bennet with the fate of being the unremarkable middle sister in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. But a new novel by Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister, fleshes her out to a full character in her own right, and provides an insight into "what happened next" after her elder sisters Jane and Elizabeth got married. Kathryn talks to her about her inspiration to take on Mary, as well as Janice's time as a television executive for the BBC.