In Searching for Pemberley, Mary Simonsen has combined her love of American and European history and 19th Century novels in a story about Austen's most famous couple, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and being a romantic, has included three love stories from three different time periods. The author lives in Peoria, Arizona.

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Through letters, diary entries, and oral history, a couple in the nearby village share stories of the people they say inspired Jane Austen. They also tell their own love story, made difficult by their vastly different backgrounds—she was one of the social elite while he was the son of a servant.