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    Trying to Tread Water by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works  

    04 Oct 2025

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    The marriage of convenience fic no one asked for.

    The morning after the Netherfield Ball, while Mr Collins is proposing to Elizabeth, Mr Bennet collapses. With her father unconscious and apparently near death, her mother pressuring her to marry Mr Collins, and the gentleman himself ignoring her protests, suddenly saying 'no' is not so easy. Faced with poverty and homelessness if she continues refusing, the gossip soon reaches Netherfield that she will have to marry Mr Collins. Just as Mr Darcy is about to mount his horse and follow Mr Bingley to London, never to return, he overhears the servants talking. The thought of Elizabeth married to a fool like Mr Collins is unbearable to him, and he resolves to make her a better offer. But, when she refuses him, he finds that he's willing to do anything for love - even marry her without the hope of being with her.

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    15 Apr 2025

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    First Impressions: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Adaptation by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1980), AUSTEN Jane - Works  

    20 Jun 2024

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    The timeless classic "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen updated and retold for the 21st century.
    Liz Bennet lives with her parents and four sisters in the resort town of Meryton, where they run The Longbourn Inn. Liz, the second eldest Bennet sister, finds herself facing a busy summer season, and then two semesters out of school as she tries to decide what she should do for her future career.
    But then the affable Chip Bingley, his standoffish sisters, and his surly best friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy, rent a lake house for the summer, changing the Bennet family's lives in ways none of them could foresee.

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    11 May 2025

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    Letters from Hertfordshire by ,

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms  

    03 Aug 2025

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    After accidentally overhearing a conversation between Elizabeth Bennet and Charolette Lucas at the Netherfield ball, Darcy is forced to admit that he has made an embarrassing misjudgment. Elizabeth Bennet detests him. The trouble is, she might be the very person he needs most to help his sister out of her depression. Darcy must overcome his pride to ask a woman who does not even LIKE him to befriend his lonely sister, while Elizabeth must open her heart to a young woman in need.

    Darcy and Elizabeth learn to know each other in broken pieces through letters sent to a mutually beloved girl.

     

    Elizabeth Bennett and Georgiana Darcy become 'pen pals'.

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    30 Jun 2025

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    Don't get me started on how much I love this author

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    Not a Woman Who Waits, Not a Man Who Forgives by ,

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995)  

    06 Oct 2025

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    When Elizabeth Bennet finds herself bound to a scandalous marriage bargain that would save her family home at the cost of her honor, she flees.
    Pursued by the very men who would claim her, she runs straight into the path of the one man she has sworn to despise.
    Her instinct to trust Darcy—against all reason—sets in motion a chain of events that will alter both their lives forever.
    In a world that mistakes virtue for compliance, one reckless plea forces Darcy to confront the truth: that honourable men do not always wait, and that cowardice can sometimes hide behind restraint.

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    The one where Elizabeth begs a favor -- a very improper favor. ;-)

     

    Thank you all for loving on this fic. I’ve decided to make it a full story because of YOU!
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    I've never really written for a theme before, but a scene dropped into my lap while I was thinking about the "let the ladies propose" prompt. I think my brain is still processing my first reading of the ancient poem The Wanderer, and I've been dwelling a lot on noble knights and love-struck heroes lately.

    Just a little blip of a scene. Could be a fun story?

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    01 Jul 2025