The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion (The Bennet Wardrobe #7)
Don Jacobson
5.00 · 1 ratings · Published: 31 Jan 2022
Does it matter how a man fills out his regimentals? Miss Austen never considered that query. Yet, this question marks the beginning of an education…and the longest life…in the Bennet Wardrobe saga.
Lydia Bennet, Longbourn’s most wayward daughter, embarks on her quest in The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion. This biography reveals how the Wardrobe helps young Mrs. Wickham learn that honor and bravery grow not from the color of the uniform—or the gender of its wearer—but rather from the contents of the heart.
In the process, she realizes that she must be broken and repaired, as if by a kintsugi master potter, to become the most useful player in the Bennet Wardrobe’s great drama.
The Pilgrim explores questions of love, loss, pain, worry, and perseverance. All of these are brought to bear as one of the silliest girls in England grows into the Dowager Countess.
This 151,000-word novel is the seventh, and next-to-last, volume in the Bennet Wardrobe Series. Each book along the way has revealed more about how the mysterious Wardrobe has led Miss Austen’s Bennets to learn that which they need in order to take part in its ultimate mission.
As Mirta Ines Trupp, author of The Meyersons of Meryton notes:
“Multifaceted and nuanced, The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion, speaks to the verities of life. Once again, Don Jacobson has combined the essence of Pride and Prejudice with an esoteric storyline and the universal themes of redemption and forgiveness in this well-crafted narrative.”
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The 'The Bennet Wardrobe' series
13 ratings 4.46 ·- The Keeper: Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey by Don Jacobson Book #1
- Henry Fitzwilliam's War by Don Jacobson Book #2
- The Exile: Kitty Bennet and the Belle Époque by Don Jacobson Book #3
- Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess by Don Jacobson Book #4
- The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Don Jacobson Book #5
- The Avenger: Thomas Bennet and a Father's Lament: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Don Jacobson Book #6
- The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion by Don Jacobson Book #7
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