Anne Elliot and Commander Frederick Wentworth met and fell in love eight years before the story of Persuasion begins. He has asked for her hand and she has accepted. In this scene, he goes to apply to her father to obtain his consent. The events are briefly referenced in Chapter 4. Anne waited in the …
A Peculiar Engagement When I first posted this story here, it was being written to be the ‘book in a book’ in my novel, Mr. Darcy’s Rival. In that book, Anne de Bourgh is an author who has published 2 novels. This one chronicled her life being engaged since birth to her cousin, Fitzwilliam Darcy. …
In writing some of my books, doing research before (or even during) the writing process has led to a major (or minor) part of the story, sometimes actually changing the direction I was heading. When I was writing Darcy’s Voyage (originally self-published as Pemberley’s Promise), I did a lot of research on websites about traveling …
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