Over the past months we have followed George Wickham and Lydia Bennet from the ballrooms to Brighton to the altar, via Napoleonic spies, heroic encounters and a lot of sauce. Today our tale of this infamous couple concludes; we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have! Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston You can …
A wedding and a clandestine meeting, but with whom? Monday morning proved to be a cool, fine sort of morning, but not especially memorable, which was exactly what one wanted for a wedding day. Elizabeth dressed and pinned up her hair with particular care, not that anyone would especially notice, but it made her …
Welcome back to the Mysteries of Pemberley! To read the Prologue click here Chapter One Michaelmas 1816, Hertfordshire There was in that year a cold, a pervasive greyness that covered the land and made warmth impossible. Spring began late, with snow and flooding interrupting the attempts of the trees and flowers to bud, and killing …
Friends, there are few people who do not know the story of my courtship with the fragrant Miss Lydia Bennet. Or rather, few who think that they do not. In fact, there was considerably more to the tale than my erstwhile official chronicler might have told. I am pleased to report, however, that the full, uncensored and rather …
The Ladies of Rosings Park is now successfully published! Hooray! But in case you don’t have your own copy yet, I will continue posting chapters here every Monday until we finish Part One of the book (the time period covered in Pride and Prejudice). These early chapters read like P&P “missing scenes” – your favorite book …
Happily married at last, and with danger behind them– for now– Lydia Bennet and George Wickham pay their respects to her family, and tend to one last bit of unfinished business. But will the party concerned lend a willing ear? Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston Catch up on previous adventures here! One, Two, Three, Four, …
An unexpected visitor in the middle of the night… Elizabeth pushed up from the narrow cellar steps. How many hours over the past days had she sat here silently waiting staring at the boxes and barrels and trunks piled along the dark, dank walls, hoping that stubborn dragon would reveal himself? Far too many. …
This is a little story I’ve been working on, my attempt at the gothic style that was popular in JA’s day. Hope you enjoy it! I will be posting on Wednesdays unless I tell you otherwise 🙂 Most of the story is told in 1816, the year without a summer, but we’ll start off in …
“My dear Mrs. Darcy,” said Mrs. Hoppner, wife of the English consul, seated in her pretty drawing-room overlooking the Grand Canal, “we are most gratified by your calling upon us. You live far too retired a life here in Venice, indeed you do.” She was a plump Swiss lady, whose husband, son of a well …
Every Monday, I have been posting a new chapter of The Ladies of Rosings Park. But this Monday is special; it’s also Launch Day! That means you can continue reading the first sixteen chapters here at Austen Variations at the pace of one per week, or you can get your own copy now and read …
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