I love this! Something about robbing Peter to pay Paul comes to mind, but as long as the overall TBR list reduces at the end of the day, it's a case of "job done"!
I'm still working through Worsley. I dislike the way in which she occasionally uses slang, which jars in a book about Austen and Georgian England. A couple of examples:
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It was the smaller things, the bonnets, the recipes, that were up for grabs.
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and in reference to Jane Austen's brother Henry when he was shipwrecked off the coast of Ireland:
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... he made the most of it by sucking up to important people in Dublin.
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