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    Miss Knightley Goes to Bath
    Miss Knightley Goes to Bath
    Miss Knightley Goes to Bath
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    Miss Knightley Goes to Bath

    By Riley Smith

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    Everyone knew the charming Emma Woodhouse and principled Mr. Knightley were meant for each other. But with two high-spirited parents such as these, how could their child be anything but extraordinary?

    Miss Belle Knightley is tired of the little town of Highbury. It feels like her mother and father never even leave the grounds of Donwell Abbey, and all of Miss Knightley’s acquaintances are either a relative or a longtime friend (or enemy) of her mother’s. There seems to be nothing new under the sun, so Miss Knightley jumps at the chance to accompany her young friend Miss Elton on her first journey to Bath.

    But even this excursion seems rife with familiar faces. The young ladies are accompanied to their first ball by Miss Elton’s brother and Miss Knightley’s cousins, the eldest of whom seems to think he and Miss Knightley are all but engaged! Not willing to spend the rest of her life as another Mrs. Knightley, she resolves never to marry. But spending additional time with the young Mr. Elton reveals new aspects of his personality. Is it newness she truly wishes for, or just a companion spirit to appreciate her properly? Can love make even this old friendship new?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Shorts
    Release dateAug 18, 2020
    ISBN9781094413266
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    Riley Smith

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    • 3/5
      Dull and dry. Austen's characters, characterizations, and their astuteness made them gems to read, unlike this.
    • 3/5
      It was a little on the dull side. No excitment
    • 5/5
      I agree that the only fault is the length thus making it 4.5 stars for me. The language is appropriate for Austen but not too stuffy, the characters are drawn well and I wanted to see relationships develop more. Another instalment perhaps?
    • 5/5
      The only thing wrong with “Miss Knightly goes to Bath” is that it ended before I wanted to leave this lively imagining of what life could have been like after Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightly had wed. Great characters with witty dialogues that happily took me back to Austen’s “Emma”.

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    • 5/5
      This is a sweet little story that is fun and well written. I was disappointed and surprised when I turned the page and found the story had ended. I was expecting more development of the characters relationships.

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    Miss Knightley Goes to Bath - Riley Smith

    Chapter One

    Most families have observed the strange fact that a girl child and a mother who are very much alike spend the entire second decade of the child’s life at odds. However, there comes every once in a while a heroine of a most singular nature, who, though being in temperament and style nearly identical to her mother, gets along swimmingly with her, and battles unceasingly with her father instead.

    In the stately, ancestral home of the Knightleys, dramatically titled Donwell Abbey, the eldest daughter had a habit of bucking whatever expectations her parents had, as a proper heroine should, and thus had spent nearly the entire second decade of her life arguing vigorously with her father.

    He was by all accounts a generous, genteel man of proper bearing and consistent sincerity. Mr. Knightley was much liked by his tenants and his neighbors; even one man who Mr. Knightley had to sentence to prison for stealing poultry had been heard to say, What a stately gentleman, that Mr. Knightley! I felt in good hands all through the trial; I didn’t want to argue with him much.

    Mr. Knightley was generally considered a fine parish magistrate, a pleasant dinner conversationalist, and a good husband (even by his wife). He was, however, considered at least in one quarter to be an abominable bore.

    His daughter, Miss Belle Knightley, eighteen years of age and his only child, was very much like her father: She was openhearted, headstrong, and rigid in her principles. Unfortunately for him, she was like her mother, Emma, in her quick wit and playful disposition, meaning she could be both unyielding and impossible to catch out in argument.

    After supper one evening in March, the family sat together in Donwell Abbey’s well-outfitted sitting room, which Mrs. Knightley had updated to the most fashionable standards, while still preserving the most important touches hearkening back to the ancient homestead’s origins.

    A fire roared across the room. It was not so cold as it might have been that time of year, but it was still cold enough to warrant the fire.

    Mrs. Knightley sewed with a little smile, enjoying the peace of the evening. She had had a rather busy day, as the Mistress of Donwell Abbey was wont to have, and she had been surprised in her married state by how much her usually spritely and energetic disposition had come to enjoy evenings of quiet.

    Mr. Knightley looked over an account book. He took a firm and appreciated hand in the running of his estate and was often to be found poring over work documents well into the night, occasionally asking his wife for some counsel or, if he had grown weary, a pleasing distraction.

    Miss Knightley pretended to read, but as she suffered from a quick, vivacious mind, she was utterly bored and incapable of concentrating on anything that might alleviate her boredom.

    Her agitation boiling over, she ascribed an incorrect but more manageable cause to it, and exclaimed, Can we not put out the fire? This room is overly stuffy. I feel like a roast turkey in all my layers.

    Her father was quick with several objections, and as he had never been accustomed to holding back his thoughts, he certainly had not learned to censor himself on his daughter’s account. But he was not altogether satisfied with the role of antagonist, so as he replied to his daughter, he sounded quite tired, like an actor who did not enjoy his lines. Your mother is doing needlework, which is hard on the hands if the room is not properly warmed. If you helped her with the task, she could complete it twice as quickly.

    His daughter retorted, "No, it would take twice as long! For she would be slowed down by having to instruct myself minutely, as I do not know what patterns or designs she has in her head for whatever she is working, so she would have to take time to patiently explain and then guide me through them. You see,

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