Tag: Darcy and Elizabeth

Nosy November ~ Who’s the nosiest of all?

So, Nosy November… 😊. Three cheers for Amy D’Orazio for suggesting such a fun theme for this month! ‘Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can,’ Elizabeth said to Mr Darcy, and we have good reason to believe that Jane Austen shared that view, …

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Swap Meet, Chapter 2

Here’s chapter 2! Find chapter one here. 2   “Lizzy!” She looked up when she heard her name called. Charles Bingley was making his way across the room toward her. “Hey, Charlie!” They kissed each other’s cheeks and he placed a hand on her elbow and guided her to the corner. “How long do you …

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Swap Meet Chapter 1

Hello, all! This story has been hanging around my hard drive unfinished for a couple of years now, and I’ve finally decided to finish it and let it see the light of day. It’s a modern comedy and eight short chapters that I will post relatively quickly. Happy reading!   1 From: Elizabeth Bennet To: …

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Launch for ‘The Journey Home to Pemberley’

  THE JOURNEY HOME TO PEMBERLEY is now out on Amazon. Huge thanks for following my posts last month and for leaving all those wonderful comments – they really made my day! I’m so glad you enjoyed the excerpts, and I hope you’ll like the full story too.     BOOK TRAILER   You can …

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Stormy September Excerpt

As I considered the Stormy September theme this month, I had several books to select passages from. Storms seem to be a popular (at least to me) plot element in writing. I would have liked to include something new, but my life the past few days has been turned upside down – not by a …

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A Picnic at Pemberley

  It’s picnic time! June is a great time for picnics, with or without our Regency glad rags on.   I love writing about picnics. In The Second Chance there’ s one at the seaside (but on a pebbly beach and sitting on deck-chairs, so hopefully they didn’t have to worry about sand in their …

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A Picnic in Venice (Part 12 of Byron and the Darcys series)

Lady Catherine was in a very bad mood. As she seated herself at the breakfast table, arrayed in her richly and stiffly embroidered morning dress with its tight lace collar Elizabeth and Darcy could see, by her black looks, that her temper, so far rigidly held in, would not be so for long. She began …

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A Picnic Excerpt from Only Mr. Darcy Will Do

For those of you who aren’t aware, each month we choose a theme that some of our authors may choose to write about. Our theme for this month is Summer is the time for Picnics, and I knew right away what I wanted to post. This is a scene from “Only Mr. Darcy Will Do,” …

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Food ~ the Glorious Food of the Georgians

They say never go shopping for food when you’re hungry. Writing a post on Georgian dishes when you’re hungry isn’t the best idea either. Luckily, I can’t nip into the kitchen to snack on plovers’ eggs, Nelson’s pudding or oyster patties, so I’m probably safe, at least for now. These were just a few of …

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The Darcys and Lord Byron in Venice Part 11 – Diana Birchall

“My dear Lord Byron,” wrote Lady Catherine, then laid down her quill to gaze dreamily out at the canal with a romantic expression that on her normally hard and imperious face, would have been deeply disturbing if any one had been there to observe it.  But she was alone in the palatial chamber that Darcy …

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