Linda Berdoll

Linda Berdoll is the author of the number one bestselling Jane Austen Sequel--her first novel, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife. Linda Berdoll is a self-described Texas farm wife whose interest in all things Austen was piqued by the BBC/A&E mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. Four years and much research later, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (originally title The Bar Sinister) appeared, to the acclaim of readers and the horror of Jane Austen purists. She and her husband live on a pecan farm in Del Valle, Texas....See more

Linda Berdoll is the author of the number one bestselling Jane Austen Sequel--her first novel, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife. Linda Berdoll is a self-described Texas farm wife whose interest in all things Austen was piqued by the BBC/A&E mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. Four years and much research later, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (originally title The Bar Sinister) appeared, to the acclaim of readers and the horror of Jane Austen purists. She and her husband live on a pecan farm in Del Valle, Texas. Although she admits that she eloped in a manner similar to Lydia Bennet's, to her great fortune it was with Darcy, not Wickham. See less