Sarah Courtney

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Part 7

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: https://austenvariations.com/category/sarah-courtney/ . Last week, Elizabeth saw Mr. Wickham at the park and told him about her dance at the Netherfield Ball with Mr. Darcy, then returned to the Gardiners’ and greeted Colonel Fitzwilliam …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 6

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: https://austenvariations.com/category/sarah-courtney/ . Last week, Elizabeth went with her cousins to the park, where she ran into Mr. Wickham, whom she considered telling of Mr. Darcy’s accident. Readers voted that she should tell him …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 5

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: https://austenvariations.com/category/sarah-courtney/ . Last week, the injured Mr. Darcy, currently safe in the care of the Gardiners’, asked for his sister. Readers voted that Elizabeth should go herself to fetch Georgiana, so this week’s …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 4

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: https://austenvariations.com/category/sarah-courtney/ . Last week, Elizabeth arrived in London with Mr. Darcy after finding him injured on the roadside, and the majority vote was that she should bring him into the Gardiners’ house! So …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 3

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: https://austenvariations.com/category/sarah-courtney/ . Last week, Elizabeth found Mr. Darcy injured on the roadside, and the majority vote was that she should take him to London as he requested! So the story will continue from …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 2

The readers have spoken! Thank you to all of you who read the first part of the Create Your Own JAFF Adventure and voted.  If you missed the first post, don’t worry! You can still jump in any time and vote on the next choice. We had a fairly even split between those people who …

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 1

Have you ever read a JAFF story and wished you could shake some sense into a character or two? Tell them not to open that door, to tell the truth, to get out of that carriage, to stay at Netherfield? Now is your chance! Travel back to the autumn of 1811 and step into Elizabeth …

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Elizabeth is not a Bennet

Elizabeth is not a Bennet. It’s a common, even favorite, trope in fanfiction. Elizabeth isn’t really a Bennet. But why do we love it so much? Elizabeth and Jane, to most readers, stand out among their sisters. They are the most rational and level-headed, they don’t embarrass the family in public, they conduct themselves like …

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A peek into a Georgian townhouse – Part 2

I posted last week about my visit to a recreated Georgian townhouse in Bath, UK, that I had the opportunity to visit this past summer. My previous post was all about the “upstairs”–the rooms the gentry would have spent all their time in. Today’s post is about the other half (or more!) of the inhabitants …

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A peek into a Georgian townhouse – Part 1

This summer, I had the absolutely delightful opportunity to visit Bath and walk a little in Jane Austen’s footsteps. I posted a while ago about some of the different places I visited, including Jane’s father’s church and the cottage at Chawton, but I also really enjoyed touring a sample Georgian home while I was in …

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