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Dallying with Mr. Darcy; Local Jane Austen admirer takes classic's characters beyond 'Pride and Prejudice' to achieve 'Honour and Humility'

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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20030518
Author:Jo-Ann Greene

Avid readers sooner or later encounter a book they wish would never end. Characters live on in the readers' minds as they fantasize about what might have happened in that next, nonexistent chapter.

Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was just such a book for Genevieve Wimer of Manor Township.

She first read the classic 19th-century novel of romance and manners as a teenager. The Arts & Entertainment network's 1996 film version renewed her enthusiasm for it. She re-read the novel twice in the past four years.

Since its author had died nearly two centuries ago, Wimer knew a sequel such as she ...

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