Author Caitlin Williams Talks of Harriet Smith at More Agreeably Engaged Blog

Reblogged: The Rise and Fall, and levelling out of Harriet Smith, is a story within a story in Emma. When I was asked to pen a tale in this anthology, I had to consider her within the context of Austen’s 19th Century England. Her Illegitimacy, though not an uncommon circumstance at the time, would have been a strangulating force for any girl hoping to marry well.