Review: This was fun!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2013
Take one stodgy old lady, who fancies herself a matriarch.  Add a number of sniveling underlings to puff her sense of her self-importance.  Mix in one very savvy young woman wedged into a deal with this termagent, to be her companion for a year in exchange for a great favor to the young woman's family. Add in a few other unlikely characters, including a villainous servant, who feels slighted for being displaced by this young woman and tries some pretty weird tricks to discredit her. Add in an element or two which would reward the good characters in this story and not harm any of the rest.  You have a lively all's-well-in-the-end tale any Austen fanatic would especially like.  Worth reading more than once.