Welcome to our epistolary retelling of Pride & Prejudice! Jane Austen’s original version of the story, First Impressions, was told entirely in letters, so it seemed like a great group project. We’ll be posting a new letter every Wednesday. Elizabeth Bennet’s Journal Hunsford: April 15, 1811 I will soon take my leave of …
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 …
One of the pleasures of writing in the wider Regency world—though The Princess Problem is technically set in 1809, two years before the official Regency—is finding those moments when history offers a novelist exactly the complication she needs. In the years after the Union with Ireland, questions of title, influence, and political advantage still felt …
Welcome to our epistolary retelling of Pride & Prejudice! Jane Austen’s original version of the story, First Impression, was told entirely in letters, so it seemed like a great group project. We’ll be posting a new letter every Wednesday. Mrs. Matilda Jenkinson April 8, 1811 Mrs. Matilda Jenkinson peeked in on her charge who was …
The Story Behind The Lantern Keeper’s Promise The Myths That Haunt This Story Sea Brides, Lost Coasts, and Why Darcy Ran to the Edge of England Every coastal culture has a version of the same story. Someone goes into the sea. The sea keeps them. And the people left on shore have to decide how …
Did you pour over the pages of a baby name book for hours and hours before finally deciding what moniker your darling child would be saddled with for life? Authors give nearly as much thought to titling their latest works before sending them out into the world. A lot rides on that decision, and once …
Welcome to our epistolary retelling of Pride & Prejudice! Jane Austen’s original version of the story, First Impression, was told entirely in letters, so it seemed like a great group project. We’ll be posting a new letter every Wednesday. Colonel Fitzwilliam to Viscount Langley April 1, 1812 Rosings Park What ho, brother! I hope …
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 …
Welcome to our epistolary retelling of Pride & Prejudice! Jane Austen’s original version of the story, First Impression, was told entirely in letters, so it seemed like a great group project. We’ll be posting a new letter every Wednesday. Private Journal of Fitzwilliam Darcy 25 March 1813 — Rosings Park, Kent The journey …
Lydia Bennet was described in Chapter 9 of Pride and Prejudice as… “a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen…[who had] high animal spirits and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers…had increased to assurance.” Therefore it is no wonder that when the opportunity for a ball arose, she was extremely enthusiastic, peppering …
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