{"id":5743,"date":"2025-09-11T05:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:24:05","slug":"jane-austen-pens-the-first-mulatto-heiress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/11\/jane-austen-pens-the-first-mulatto-heiress\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen Pens the First Mulatto Heiress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;\">On the 27th January, 1817 Jane Austen began Sanditon, the first Regency that included, Miss Lambe, a mulatto heiress, a very wealthy mulatto heiress. Jane Austen, the patron saint of Regency Novels, was a progressive woman.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"vanes-3835515725\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;\">I am pleased to present three heiresses Jane might approve of in the Advertisements for Love Series. The Bittersweet Bride released January 29, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; margin: 18px 0px; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;\">Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband to help protect her son. The former flower seller turned estate owner posts an ad in the newspaper, and no one is more surprised than she when her first love, the man she thought dead, reappears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; margin: 18px 0px; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;\">Ewan Fitzwilliam has been at war for six years. Now, the second son of a powerful earl is back but his beloved Theo needs a husband and will not consider him. She believes Ewan left her\u2014in desperate straits\u2014so she denies the feelings she still harbors for the handsome, scarred soldier. Theo and playwright Ewan must overcome bitter lies and vengeful actions that ruined their youthful affair. Theo must reveal her deepest secret in order to reclaim the love that has long been denied<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bsweetbride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Bittersweet Bride\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanessariley.com\/gotool\/image\/data\/TheBittersweetBride_FINALa72.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bsweetbride\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/bsweetbride<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-bittersweet-bride-vanessa-riley\/1127620028?ean=9781640634657\">https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-bittersweet-bride-vanessa-riley\/1127620028?ean=9781640634657<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-bittersweet-bride\/id1324090920?mt=11\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-bittersweet-bride\/id1324090920?mt=11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledpublishing.com\/the-bittersweet-bride.html\">https:\/\/entangledpublishing.com\/the-bittersweet-bride.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2018-01-30 20:18:19. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-1678272358\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th January, 1817 Jane Austen began Sanditon, the first Regency that included, Miss Lambe, a mulatto heiress, a very wealthy mulatto heiress. Jane Austen, the patron saint of Regency Novels, was a progressive woman. I am pleased to present three heiresses Jane might approve of in the Advertisements for Love Series. The Bittersweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,1047,1098,593,932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jane-austen","category-jane-austen-news","category-jane-austens-books-and-characters","category-janes-novels","category-janes-novels-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheBittersweetBride_FINAL.jpg?fit=1600%2C2400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}