I love this time of year. I particularly adore when all the flowers pop out from hiding and the weather warms enough for us to walk out and enjoy them. Today’s “May Flowers” post is a brand new vignette written to accompany my current work in progress, entitled These Dreams. You will be the first to read hints …
The plundering of the papers of Mr Wickham have yielded a most illuminating correspondence with his old friend and brother-in-law, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Imagine our delight to discover that it extended to include correspondence from Mr Wickham’s grandson, Harry*, too. If you missed the first instalments of this series, you can read part one here and part two here. We hope …
If you have been following the unearthing of Mr Wickham’s journals by his archivist and biographer, Catherine Curzon, you may have noted that in his later years, the self-professed scoundrel seems to have been reconciled to his boyhood companion and brother-in-law, Fitzwilliam Darcy. It seems that the two became somewhat regular correspondants, despite the *ahem* …
Welcome to the part four of our special March Mashup! Plans are afoot for the silver-haired George Wickham and his silk-clad wife to visit Margaret Thornton in her new marital home. Read on to learn of perfume, scandal and Mrs Wickham’s hard-won battle with her ornamental feathers. If you would like to catch up with the correspondence, …
Welcome to the third installment of this March Mashup special series! Once again, we bring you evidence of a remarkable and highly unlikely friendship: that of a wiser George Wickham and a young Margaret Hale. We hope you enjoy his mature reflections and witticisms as he advises and befriends the new wife of a cotton …
Welcome to another edition of March Mashups! Today we continue our serialisation of the letters exchanged between the young Margaret Hale and the rather more seasoned George Wickham. Discovered in their respective archives, these letters offer an invaluable insight into a most unlikely friendship. We hope you enjoy reading them. -Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston …
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of March Mashups! Today we bring you a series of letters exchanged between the most unlikely of correspondants- a young Margaret Hale, and an older and much wiser George Wickham. When Catherine was compiling some of Mr Wickham’s later correspondence, she stumbled across a curious set of letters from …
Today is my first dance at Austen Variations! I wanted to thank everyone for the warm welcome. Today I offer an exclusive vignette featuring a nervous Jane and Elizabeth just before their marriages. This month we celebrate love, particularly new loves. What can be more “new” than a bride and a groom preparing for their …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that many fans of Jane Austen’s characters are in want of a wedding night scene to read! We’ve collected a variety of them here from different authors for your reading pleasure. Here’s a teaser quote for each, plus a link to read the full scene. Darcy and …
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