Jane & D’Arcy is the story of Jane Austen’s teenage romance with D’Arcy Wentworth, a young Irish surgeon; hidden in plain sight for more than two hundred and thirty years. In Folly is not always folly , we learn of their first meetings, their adventures in London and Scotland and, after D’Arcy was tried for highway robbery at the Old Bailey, how Jane was persuaded to give him up. To protect her and the family’s reputation, her father Reverend Austen, ruled the affair was never to be spoken of. After D’Arcy left England for the other side of the world, her family closed ranks around her.