2009 October

#203 ~ A Match for Mary Bennet

A Match for Mary Bennet: Can a serious young lady ever find her way to love? by Eucharista Ward, O.S.F. Elizabeth Bennet Darcy’s younger sister, Mary, is quite a serious girl. She has seen a younger sister run off with a many who is not her husband and has sworn not to even mention her [...]

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#202 ~ The Tudor Rose

5 Oct By Jennifer 17 Comments

The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes After finishing Philippa Gregory’s latest novel about Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen, I was eager to pick up the story of Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville’s daughter. Most of the Tudor fiction I have read to date focused on happenings after her death, so I didn’t feel very [...]

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The Sunday Salon ~ Tough Week

4 Oct By Jennifer 29 Comments

It’s been quite a week here at The Literate Houseswife Review: Had to move from a semi-private cube to an open area workspace at work. I don’t like it, but I didn’t have much time to worry about it because… The strep throat and cough that I treated the week leading up to the National [...]

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