Mary Smythe is an American homemaker living in South Carolina. She began writing in 2001 and developed a sustained interest in Jane Austen's fiction after discovering Austen as a teenager through the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. She has described reading Austen's complete works repeatedly and began writing Jane Austen fan fiction in the summer of 2018.
Smythe holds a bachelor's degree in English. Her academic training in English preceded her development as a published author of Regency romance and Jane Austen-inspired fiction.
Smythe began writing in 2001 and later concentrated on Jane Austen fan fiction, beginning that work in 2018. Her first completed full-length novel, Dare to Refuse Such a Man, was published in 2021. She subsequently published the In Love with Mr Darcy novels A Faithful Narrative, Pride Before a Fall, Prevailed Upon to Marry, A Case of Some Urgency, and Her Charms to Recommend Her. Her work also includes the Happily Everafterlife novels Pemberley and Rosings Park, shorter fiction, and contributions to multi-author Jane Austen-inspired collections. Her fiction is published under the name Mary Smythe, including through Quills & Quartos Publishing.
(The first novel in the Happily Everafterlife series, in w...)
2024(A novel in the In Love with Mr Darcy series, centered on ...)
2022Pride Before a Fall
(A novel in the In Love with Mr Darcy series and a Jane Au...)
2022Prevailed Upon to Marry
(A novel in the In Love with Mr Darcy series and a variati...)
2023A Case of Some Urgency
(A novel in the In Love with Mr Darcy series and a Jane Au...)
2023(A Pride and Prejudice variation and Smythe's first comple...)
2021Fitzwilliam Darcy, Hero
(A collaborative Jane Austen-inspired novel written with J...)
2024Rosings Park
(The second novel in the Happily Everafterlife series.)
2025Her Charms to Recommend Her
(A novel in the In Love with Mr Darcy series.)
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