Judith Brocklehurst was more fortunate than Elizabeth Bennet, for she got to the lakes—in fact she was brought up there, and it was on visits to the magnificent scenery of Derbyshire that her passion for Jane Austen was developed. She won a scholarship and attended Cambridge university, then emigrated to Canada in the sixties with her husband and two young daughters, and worked as a teacher and newspaper columnist. Her greatest pleasure was writing Jane Austen sequels by installments and sharing them electronically with Janeites all over the world.