Tag: 2017

Autumn Gone Awry: Part 3

This is the third and final installment of Autumn Gone Awry. The first two can be found by clicking these links : Part One: Owing Nothing  Part Two: Owing Something  Owing Everything Of course, he could not still love you. He would not yet wish to marry you. Now, more than ever, he must make …

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Caught in a Blizzard

An excerpt from Snowbound at Hartfield. What drives Miss Elizabeth Elliot out into the blizzard? And why is Colonel Fitzwilliam compelled to find her? Oh, for a man’s greatcoat! Such a garment would have been far better armor against the weather than her own pretty cloak and muff. The wind tore at the edges, driving …

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Autumn Gone Awry

Part Two: Owing Something  If you missed it, the first part of this tale is here https://austenvariations.com/autumn-gone-awry/     November 1814 “So tell me about her.” Darcy jerked his head around to find his cousin, Viscount Saye, studying him carefully, an air of eager anticipation about him. “Who?” “The lady sitting with my Lillian.” Saye gestured …

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Autumn Gone Awry

Part One: Owing Nothing He was gathering his thoughts, preparing to speak, when she began. “Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding yours. I can no longer help thanking you for your unexampled kindness to …

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Painting a Picture of Autumn

Summer is definitely over. October is here and time to turn our minds to a new season. It’s Austen in Autumn!    Yesterday, when I went out for my morning constitutional, I had multicolored maple leaves crunching underfoot and the occasional spider web hitting me in the face.  I also took a plastic bag along …

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Sequels in September: A Different Persuasion – Part 4

Sir Walter Elliot stood in one of his two fine adjoining drawing-rooms in Bath, minutely examining his elegant figure in a long pier-glass mirror. It was placed between two ornamented windows, so that the daylight might best reveal the morning condition and texture of his complexion. At the moment he was occupied in examining the …

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Death & Life – a sequel to P&P and The Three Colonels, by Jack Caldwell

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, my second published novel, THE THREE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men—a grand sequel to two of Jane Austen’s works: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility—was originally published on-line. What you may not know is I also wrote a vignette about the characters in that story …

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But What Happens Next?

“But don’t you want to know what happens next?” That’s the question I often ask when I meet someone who tells me how much they love Jane Austen’s books, especially Pride and Prejudice. Their answer is usually the same as my own: yes, yes, YES! We’ve fallen in love with the characters, and we’re not ready …

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A State of Inelegance

Hope that wherever this month finds you dear readers that you are keeping cool!  The end of July, Pemberley  As she walked across the lawn towards the river, Elizabeth turned back to look again at Pemberley, and while she contemplated it, the owner of it himself suddenly came forward from the road, which led behind …

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We’re Having a Heat Wave

We’re smack in the middle of summer now, and many of us are feeling the heat! But what did Jane Austen have to say about hot summer weather? Along with our other ongoing features, we’ll be sprinkling in a few posts on that topic this month.   When I searched my mind for hot weather …

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