Such Talent & Such Success, Jane & D'Arcy - Volume II

Such Talent & Such Success

Such Talent & Such Success, volume 2 of Jane & D’Arcy, opens in 1806. Jane is in Southampton awaiting D’Arcy’s return. D’Arcy, in New South Wales, waits for permission to return to England, to be reunited with her.

Such Talent & Such Success tells the story of their rapidly changing fortunes. In 1809, Jane returns to Hampshire; there, between 1810 and 1815, she completes six of the most widely read and enduring novels: Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, filled with echoes of her romance with D’Arcy, and Persuasion, her imagined story of his return.

In 1810, D’Arcy became a great assistant to Lachlan Macquarie, Bligh’s successor. He helped Macquarie transform the Colony, and he championed the cause of the former convicts, the emancipists. D’Arcy led a campaign for their rights and recognition, but did not live to see it come to fruition. He died in July 1827, ten years after Jane.

His eldest son, William Charles, continued his advocacy for the emancipists and fought for more than thirty-five years for the right of New South Wales to govern itself, to make its own laws independent of Britain. He was known as the Liberator, the Father of Australia’s Constitution.

Published by Arcana Gallery Press,
Such Talent & Such Success has 462 pages, endnotes and an index.
ISBN 978-0-646-96510-9
Email: wwwalker.janeanddarcy@gmail.com

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