#pride and prejudice variation

[riverstories7]

Reverie & Rancour Now Available!

Thanks to all of you who have inquired about R&R becoming an ebook. I'm pleased to say that it's now available for pre-order on Amazon. The book will be released on 31 January, and at that time it will also be included in the Kindle Unlimited program.

[mrdarcysleftnut]

“Darcy,” Bingley called, “did you hear that? She called me a sensible man.”

“She has clearly gotten fatigued and delusional.”

Bingley puffed up dramatically. “An insult to Miss Elizabeth and myself? I’m affronted. A meeting at dawn.”

“You are more likely to oversleep than I.”

Bingley deflated, laughing.

-quote from "Starch and Strategy: A Variation on Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion (Sweet Regency Saga Book 1)" by Corrie Garrett

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[pennyngram]

Does anyone know where I could find a typical yearly schedule for Regency gentlemen in charge of an estate?

Basically, in which periods of the year were they "forced" to stay at the estate to supervise sowing or other Estate Important Tasks? I've been googling for 2 days without luck.

[stlgeekgirl]

Mouse found another one!

Mouse found another one! #BookReview #books #PrideandPrejudice #variations #LGBTQIA

You all know by now that I am here for a good Pride & Prejudice variation. If it mentions the novel, chances are I’m picking it up.After the queer YA version in Most Ardently, I found this one, Just as You Are. A lesbian-sapphic romance that touches on gender norms, expectations, transgender issues, homophobia and elder queers all while telling the story of Lizzie and Darcy. Or in this book, Liz…

[ihatetbrlists]

Review #26: Love and Loathing

Love and Loathing, by Gigi Blume.

From my TBR? Nope.

A Pride and Prejudice modern retelling about musical actors? Hello??? Did you write this specifically for me?

Author, I salute you for your service and warmly shake you by the hand. This woman is a bigger theatre kid than I am. Guys, she chose Pirates of Penzance as the play the characters are playing in. If that's not dedication to the craft, I don't know what is.

And the puns. All those musical puns. I can't even tell you. THE WAITRESS REFERENCE. That was a stroke of genius. I should seriously check out the Emma-inspired second book in the series.

Verdict: Brilliant. Read this book if you like Pride and Prejudice or musicals or romance novels or are alive and breathing.

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Sir Walter Takes a Wife: A Sweet Regency Romance by Laura Hile

Faced with a lonely future and finding himself strapped for cash (as the young bucks say), Persuasion’s Sir Walter Elliot manfully decides that the time has come to marry again.

His choice is a young woman of breeding and distinction. But alas, Sir Walter’s vanity is his undoing. He refuses to use his spectacles and so sends a Valentine to the wrong Lady Catherine. What a disaster!

That is, until Sir Walter gets a look at the woman’s grand estate.

Will the man’s handsome appearance and powers of persuasion be enough to win Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s hand? Not if she has anything to say in the matter!

This lighthearted Valentine novella, splendidly brought to life by Ruth Redman, features two of Jane Austen’s worst snobs. Come enjoy the fun!

[bethanydelleman]

I just stumbled across another Darcy Has Amnesia and Has Been Living as a Lower Class X and I need to say this:

DARCY WOULD BE IDENTIFED AS RICH BEFORE HE WOKE UP!

First, clothes. In Jane Eyre, despite her tramping through a bog, they knew her clothes are upper/middle class before she woke up. If Darcy is wearing anything he's gentry or merchant class on sight.

So lets say he's naked. People today kind of just look like people, but in the past, no. Lower class men in this era especially would wear their profession on their skin. Fishermen and farm workers would be tanned like crazy, carpenters would have lost bits of finger, blacksmiths burn marks and developed muscles. Do you know that winemaking can stain your hands purple for weeks? Aside from profession, Darcy would look soft to lower class people, but at the same time well fed. The lower classes were struggling with food insecurity during this era or for all time...

And then he wakes up, now I am not sure if they trained provincial accents out of kids in this era, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD DARCY TALK? Jane Austen doesn't have many servants talk, but sound like Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy they do not! He has perfect grammar and a huge vocabulary! He will be known as a clergyman, lawyer, merchant, gentry or even an aristocrat the second he speaks.

So what then? These are poor people, they aren't dumb. They would advertise that they have found a rich injured person and hope for a reward. Darcy would be fairly well known by face and they have artists and newspapers and printing presses. He also would be known to be missing, he has a family, he writes his sister on a regular basis.

I give it a month tops before he's safely back home.

And that's not even getting into the fact that erasing a person's entire memory is basically neurologically impossible...

[callonpeevesie]

Lizzie and Darcy are the type of couple to develop several different flavours of Eye Contacts To Make In Public. such as the "can you believe this bitch" eye contact and the "we need to leave now" eye contact

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

I've read literally hundreds of variations and I don't think anything will ever top this

[kurlyfrasier]

I am looking for a Pride & Prejudice variation that I read years ago. Somebody please help!

All I remember is the beginning where Lizzy (I think she is escaping a terrible job as a governess) knocks on Darcy's townhouse all thin and sickly and he basically hides her away from the world until she feels better.

[riverstories7]

Fixed Stars: A Pride & Prejudice Vagary

...is now available for pre-order!

Summary: In the autumn of 1811, Miss Bennet encounters Miss Darcy in Hyde Park, and the two swiftly strike up a friendship. Acute concern for his sister's happiness moves Fitzwilliam Darcy to propose marriage to the kind young lady. Only when he arrives in Hertfordshire does he discover that he is engaged to the wrong Bennet sister. Bound by honour to another, can Darcy ever confess his love for Elizabeth? And if he does, will scandal and ruin be the only result? Fixed Stars, the first book in the Primum Mobile duology, is a tale of thwarted longing and familial strife–but also of perseverance and triumphant love.

You can order your copy here, if you feel so inclined.

[mrdarcysleftnut]

"Cruel people those Cambridge folk, aren’t they?” here Bingley beamed a grin at Darcy. “Nobody ever behaved in such a brutish way at Oxford, I can tell you.”

“They are too busy learning to read and write over there,” Darcy kindly explained to Elizabeth and Jane.

-"The Unreformed Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation" by Mei Wei Lin

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[pennyngram]

My reaction: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Has anyone else received this?

[stlgeekgirl]

Pride & Prejudice with a new twist.

Pride & Prejudice with a new twist #Books #bookreview #pride&Prejudiceretelling #LGBTQ+ #romance #YA

And here we are, back on my Pride and Prejudice variation kick. By now I have read so much of these it a wonder my appetite for it hasn’t diminished. It’s fascinating to me how many ways authors can read the original text and imagine ways to change it just a little to create a whole new story.Such as it is with Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novea. I won’t lie, I preordered this book back in December…

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The Reading Diaries #7

Fearful Symmetry, by Gailie Ruth Caress

From my TBR? Yes.

Minor spoilers ahead.

Reader, be warned: I am obsessed with Pride and Prejudice Variations. I once read 70+ of them in one year. And I'm not even counting unpublished JAFF. Fearful Symmetry is the first I review on this blog but it certainly shan't be the last.

Ok, now onto the book itself.

The premise is simple: what if Longbourn was destroyed by a fire right after the Netherfield Stay? A lot of drama, that's what.

I usually like my P&P Variations quick and angst free and this doesn't fit the bill exactly, but it was a good Variation all the same! Usually, Variations set in the aftermath of the Netherfield Stay tend to conclude themselves by the Netherfield Ball but this one dragged on until Rosings, which I felt was a little unnecessary. They could have solved everything a long time before that but I have the feeling that the author couldn't let go of the dramatic resolution she had imagined.

There was some angst, in the form of the Bennets' precarious economic situation after basically losing Longbourn to the fire but it's not major.

Also, Darcy and Elizabeth didn't spend nearly enough time with each other. Where are the nighttime clandestine conversations in Netherfield's library that I'm so fond of? Is that just me? Ugh, whatever.

The writing felt a little over-flowery at times. I almost DNFd the book after the first few paragraphs but I soldiered on and now I'm glad I did. I loved the bit about palm reading and scars. It was the highlight of the whole book for me, it felt very meta but also super sweet (you'll get it once you read it).

All in all, not my favourite P&P Variation but it has its charm.

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Dimensions of Darcy Series

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Traitor by Jennifer Joy

He is England's most wanted criminal… and she is stuck with him.

Besieged by highwaymen and left for dead in a snowstorm, Fitzwilliam Darcy seeks help only to get arrested for treason. A split-second decision forever attaches Elizabeth Bennet to his side, and now, they are on the run. When adversity reveals their true character, will Elizabeth regret her decision?

Together, they make a daring team, but their nail-biting adventure will be for naught if they cannot catch the real villain on time…

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Traitor is a sweet and clean romantic suspense variation of Jane Austen's timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice. It's the first book in the Dimensions of Darcy series of standalone novels.

Make sure to listen all the way to the end for an exclusive peek inside the writing and research that you'll only see here!

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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Poet by Jennifer Joy

He's a famous poet… he just doesn't know it.

Fitzwilliam Darcy was burned once. Never again. Hiding his emotions, Darcy takes pride in his marble-like façade… until he meets a lady who threatens to expose his true character.

Elizabeth Bennet longs to meet the man whose poems touch her soul—the elusive Mr. Walter Wyndham. He is her ideal; her dream… and everything emotionless Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy could never be.

Stuck in each other’s company, Darcy’s carefully constructed barriers come crashing down when he discovers the secret identity of Elizabeth’s beloved poet. It’s him!

Will Darcy measure up to the man she’s been dreaming of for years? Will Elizabeth stubbornly pursue an illusion, or will she fall for an imperfect (and very real) man?

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Poet is a sweet and clean romance variation of Jane Austen's timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice. It's the second book in the Dimensions of Darcy series of standalone novels.

Make sure to listen all the way to the end for an exclusive peek inside the writing process that you'll only see here!

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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Guardian—Sweet Regency Romance

Fitzwilliam Darcy will lie and break the law to keep his sister's newborn safe. When the only way to protect her is to have an heir of his own, his search for a trustworthy wife begins…

When Elizabeth Bennet's father falls gravely ill, she is willing to shoulder the responsibility of her family's care while maintaining her freedom — until she is forced to marry Mr. Darcy.

Through grief and betrayal, Darcy and Elizabeth learn to trust each other and work together to honor the promises they have made — including the vows they exchanged.

But a spiteful enemy from Darcy's past is determined to divide their family, and the law is on his side…

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Guardian is a sweet and clean romantic suspense variation of Jane Austen's timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice. It's the third book in the Dimensions of Darcy series of standalone novels.

Make sure to listen all the way to the end for an exclusive peek inside the writing process that you'll only see here!

🎧 Happy Listening!