![]() ![]() Bennet is a dry, history buff, who has recently suffered a health scare bringing Liz and her older sister (nearly 40) Jane home from New York where sisters Mary, Lydia and Kitty greet their two older siblings with something less than unadulterated enthusiasm. ![]() ![]() Her mother is an annoying shop-aholic with a penchant for seeing all five of her girls married well Mr. This Liz lives in New York and writes for “Mascara” magazine but hails from an upper middle-class family living in a deteriorating Tudor in Cincinnati’s tony Hyde Park neighborhood. In Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld has written a Lizzie Bennet for the modern American woman. If only I could have stopped the narrative, run from the car, and found female readers’ own favorite protagonist - Lizzie Bennet - having lunch as described! The questions I would ask her! The advice I would offer! The friendship we would develop!Īlas, as all in carnations of Elizabeth Bennet inevitably are, this one too was fictional. A place of business less than a stone’s throw from my own back door. ![]() I was driving along, returning to my home from an out of town visit and listening to a book on tape, ( Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld) when the narrator mentioned Doodles restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky. Gentle reader, imagine my delighted surprise. ![]()
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