{"id":4124,"date":"2026-03-24T05:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:38:30","slug":"friendship-and-folly-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/24\/friendship-and-folly-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship and Folly – A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered the most delightful regency romance the other day on Amazon. Friendship and Folly<\/em> by Meredith Allady, Book 1 of the Merriweather Chronicles.<\/p>

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Something that intrigued me from the first was the introduction, where the author explains how she found this manuscript in an old trunk of her grandmother’s, a trunk filled with old journals and manuscripts. She edited the most complete manuscript and has published it as “Friendship and Folly<\/em> by Meredith Allady.” Whether Meredith Allady is her real name, her grandmother’s, or a pseudonym–or pun (Meredith, A Lady?) matters not. \"Friendship<\/a><\/p>\n

What I discovered when I began reading it is a wonderful story told in what I found is an extremely authentic Regency-style, which I why I think it truly is a discovery from someone’s old trunk and not a well-researched historical. There are allusions to historical events and things only someone who lived in the era (and those of us who have done a lot of regency-era research ourselves) are privy to.<\/p>\n

The Christian-spiritual thread through the novel is also in keeping with someone writing from that era, very much like Jane Austen. People pray and quote Scripture in a very natural way. It shows how Bible-illiterate our generation has become. The most moving scene happens during the crisis\/climax and is very much a Christian lesson.<\/p>\n

The story also has the wit of Jane Austen.<\/p>\n

If you go on Amazon, though, the author warns those who don’t enjoy Jane Austen or an old-fashioned writing style to please stay away. On Goodreads.com, she tells readers: “For all those readers who loathe the ‘epistolary’ style of narrative, Meredith tenders her heartfelt apologies; but there it is.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I for one was caught up from page one of this regency story and am glad to see that there is a Book 2 in the Merriweather Chronicles.<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2014-07-15 14:30:01. <\/small><\/p>

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I discovered the most delightful regency romance the other day on Amazon. Friendship and Folly by Meredith Allady, Book 1 of the Merriweather Chronicles. Something that intrigued me from the first was the introduction, where the author explains how she found this manuscript in an old trunk of her grandmother’s, a trunk filled with old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,86,3,249,9,4],"tags":[446,447,444,448,445],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","category-female-authors-regency-period","category-history","category-jane-austen","category-recommended-reading","category-regency-romance","tag-friendship-and-folly","tag-jane-austen-like-romances","tag-meredith-allady","tag-regency-romances","tag-the-merriweather-chronicles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}