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

Such Talent tells the story of their rapidly changing fortunes that followed. In 1809, Jane returned to Hampshire; there, between 1810 and 1815, she completed six remarkable novels, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, the most beloved, most widely read and enduring of novels.

In 1810, D’Arcy became the 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, though he 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 fight 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.