This is something I do as a reader - and as an insomniac, telling myself stories in my head at night - and I think it's probably what a lot of writers of fanfiction do - but Reynolds does it so well. She does one of my favorite things, which is to take a "what if" moment and expand it, to follow the ripple and see what would happen, what would change and what stay the same.
I think it should be standard practice that, when one finishes reading all of Jane Austen's works, someone presses a copy of an Abigail Reynolds book into their hands. If you like Jane Austen, romance, or butterflies-in-stomach, pick this up.* There are things I thought I wanted to say, warnings I wanted to give, but nope. In this installment of Abigail Reynolds's acclaimed Pride and Prejudice Variations, Elizabeth agrees to marry Darcy against her better judgment, setting off a chain of events that nearly brings disaster to them both. Fitzwilliam Darcy that she wouldn't marry him if he were the last man in the world.īut what if she never said the words? What if circumstances conspired to make her accept Darcy the first time he proposes? In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet tells the proud Mr. (Jan.The last man in the world she could be prevailed upon to marry.is her husband? If romantics can overlook the subversion, they should enjoy witnessing Elizabeth as an industrious and caring wife, administering to Pemberley's tenants, learning how to be an equestrian and growing to love that perplexing Darcy characteristic trepidations, setbacks and miscommunications stick close to the spirit of Austen. I can no longer imagine a future without you by my side”) and the incongruous notion that Austen's willful proto-feminist would feel constrained by a kiss, however public. This romantic trifle is marred by occasionally hysterical sentiment (Darcy: “But ardent love will not be denied. In this spin on events, Reynolds excises Elizabeth Bennet's famous rejection of Fitzwilliam Darcy's initial proposal (“the last man on earth” she'd marry), instead putting them together from the get-go (despite Elizabeth's lingering doubts).
) introduces a few twists to the Austen classic, a project that purists will surely abhor, but which should prove a pleasing diversion for more casual fans.
Originally self-published as a “Pride and Prejudice Variation,” Reynolds ( From Lambton to Longborn
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