Pride and Prejudice
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh | 2021 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Clergyman’s Wife | 2019 | Buy |
| Marvelous | 2023 | Buy |
Molly Greeley writes historical fiction that takes secondary characters from classic literature and gives them stories of their own. Her debut, The Clergyman’s Wife (2019), imagines the inner life of Charlotte Lucas after her pragmatic marriage to Mr. Collins in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh (2021) does the same for Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s sickly daughter, a character who barely speaks in Austen’s original.
Greeley’s approach is less about rewriting Austen and more about finding the human stories hidden in the margins of well-known novels. Charlotte and Anne are both women whose choices are constrained by the social expectations of their era, and Greeley uses their perspectives to explore what agency looks like within those limits. Her third novel, Marvelous (2023), moves away from Austen to tell an original historical story, suggesting she is expanding beyond retelling into broader historical fiction.