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Jane Austen’s Advent – Day 24 – Pride, Prejudice, & Snow conclusion

Welcome to the conclusion of “Pride, Prejudice and Snow”! Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2  in case you missed them.  This is a modern story set near Woods Hole, MA. It doesn’t include the characters from my Woods Hole stories, but I think of it as taking place in the same seaside universe. …

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Jane Austen’s Advent – Day 11 – Pride, Prejudice, & Snow continues

Welcome to the continuation of Pride, Prejudice and Snow! You can read Part 1 here, and the third and final part will be posted on Christmas Eve. No need to worry – there are no cliff-hangers, just Christmas miracles. This is a modern story set near Woods Hole, MA. It doesn’t include the characters from my …

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Jane Austen’s Advent – Day 4 – Pride, Prejudice, & Snow

Today’s Advent treat is a Darcy and Elizabeth Christmas short story I’ve been working on for a few years. Every autumn I’d dust it off and write some more, but never enough to publish it in time for Christmas. This year I decided put a conclusion on it and to post it for our readers. …

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Pemberley Celebrations Excerpt

In celebration of Christmas and the holiday season, I offer you this excerpt from Pemberley Celebrations – The First Year, which I originally wrote back in 2001-2002. After a lot of changes and additions, I published it in 2011. It is a compilation of stories following Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy as they celebrate the holidays and special …

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P&P: Behind the Scenes – Darcy and the Harlequin

              While in London, Darcy attends a Christmastide pantomime with the Bingley sisters.   Dec 30, 1811 Darcy laid his newspaper aside. Miss Bingley should not have worried, her little dinner party hardly garnered any notice at all. A few brief words of Sir Andrew’s and Lady Elizabeth’s attendance …

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P&P: Behind the Scenes – Christmas Dinner at Longbourn

    Christmas Dinner at Longbourn with the officers and the Gardiners proves interesting. December 25, 1811 Later that night, Elizabeth paced the very clean drawing room, waiting for their guests to arrive. Fresh evergreen and holly filled the room with the season’s fragrances, tied with cheery red bows. It should have been a very …

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The 12 Days of a Jane Austen Christmas – The Christmas Wish

The parlour at Netherfield was bursting with cheer as my family enjoyed Jane and her Mr. Bingley’s first Christmas Eve celebration. The newly wed couple sat side-by-side on a sofa across from where I stood near the window and whispered to one another as they observed those around them. Jane’s countenance was blissful as was …

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The 12 Days of a Jane Austen Christmas

On the eleventh day of Christmas, Jane Austen gave to me…  an excerpt from A Jane Austen Christmas to whet your appetite.         Each year, Regency era British theaters prepared Christmas pantomimes (pantos) that would begin on Boxing Day and run as long as the audiences demanded them. These were not silent productions, but …

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The 12 Days of a Jane Austen Christmas – Day 9

A Christmas Vignette: Darcy and Elizabeth are traveling to Vienna for Christmas not long after their first anniversary, but things don’t go quite as expected… Elizabeth looked up from the pile of invitations stacked next to her plate and sighed quietly. After making a rambling wedding tour from the Côte d’Azur to Paris after their …

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12 Days of a Jane Austen Christmas: Crescent City Giveaway by Jack Caldwell

The Cajun Cheesehead Christmas Chronicles [Originally posted 03/26/2011] Hello, folks. Jack Caldwell here. As I have said ad nauseum, I am a Cajun, born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana. You may have heard of it: Jerry Reed’s Amos Moses (http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jerry_reed/amos_moses.html) I digress. (You should be used to that by now.) Anyhow, Louisiana being what it …

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