June 12, 1812, Brighton Sixteen! What a fine thing to be sixteen! Lydia Bennet preened in front of the mirror wondering if she looked as grown as she felt. Sixteen was a delightful age. Old enough to really be courted. Old enough to marry! Old enough to make her own decisions! Ha! And there was …
Category: Pride & Prejudice: The Untold Stories
P&P The Untold Stories: Lydia Enjoys Brighton
Wild with excitement, Lydia enters Brighton. May 21, 1812 Early on a bright morning in late May, a gay party left Meryton: the girls, Lydia and Mrs. Forster, with the latter’s little maid, traveled all day in Colonel Forster’s chaise, driven by a coachman, as the colonel rode with the regiment. By three o’clock they …
P&P The Untold Stories: Elizabeth Remembers
Going to Derbyshire? How can she without thinking of Mr. Darcy? May 20th, 1812 Derbyshire. That one word brought it all flooding back to my mind, all that I had so studiously endeavored to put from it. My heart had been set on seeing The Lakes, but my aunt’s letter two weeks ago not only put an …
P&P The Untold Stories: What Was Wickham Thinking?
Do his charms still work on Elizabeth? May 18th, 1812 He was by no means discouraged. Mary King may have slipped through his fingers, but what did it matter? There were plenty more fish in the sea. And after all, it would have been selling himself pretty cheap to settle for a freckled face with …
P&P The Untold Stories: Darcy and Fitzwilliam have a talk
Colonel Fitzwilliam talks some sense into his cousin… April 11, 1812 “Darcy, that is the tenth time you have sighed tonight. I insist you tell me what has you so out of sorts!” cried Colonel Fitzwilliam as he stirred the fire in the library. “I am not out of sorts,” grumbled his cousin. Fitzwilliam …
P&P The Untold Stories: Fitzwilliam Takes His Leave of the Parsonage
Fitzwilliam Bids Farewell to the Parsonage April 10th, 1812 “ARE YOU COMFORTABLE, COLONEL?” asked Mrs. Collins. “Perfectly, madam,” he replied. “Of course Colonel Fitzwilliam is comfortable, Mrs. Collins!” cried Mr. Collins. “Did not Lady Catherine de Bourgh herself pick out these very chairs? I assure you, my dear colonel, that your most excellent aunt arranged …
P&P The Untold Stories: Darcy Walking in the Grove
“I Shall Never See Her Again.” 10 April 1812 Dawn’s dew rolled off the polished leather of Darcy’s boots with each meticulous step. He had paced this path in the grove twenty-three times already, but in such a straight, methodical trail that there was but a single line of steps between the ancient oak and …
P&P The Untold Stories: After the Proposal
The bitterness of rejection… April 9, 1812 Fury choked him. All-consuming fury – at her, of course, but no less at himself for laying himself open to the abject humiliation. Darcy tugged his gloves on and his countenance twisted into an almighty scowl. Heavens above! How had he failed himself so utterly, so completely? He, …
P&P The Untold Stories: Darcy Plans His Proposal
Darcy goes for a ride to clear his head and put together a gentlemanlike proposal… April 9, 1812 Darcy tightened the reins, and brought his mount to a halt. To his left, far into the hazy distance, stood the great house, grey and squat, surrounded by manicured parkland. He could not see the parsonage from …
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