The secret diaries of Jane Austen's naughty women have been revealed Jane Austen's stories may focus on the romantic rewards of her principled heroines, but there are the less-than-proper ladies who surrender to their passions and abandon propriety, with wanton disregard for their family reputations- all for the often short-lived affection of a top-hatted, cravat wearing bad boy. These steamy secret diaries reveal what happened the night Lydia stole away with Wickham, how Lucy Steele seduced the brother of her fiance, why Isabella Thorpe ended up in bed with the heir to Northanger Abbey, and...