Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice Sequel Bundle: 3 Reader Favorites
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Authors: Linda Berdoll
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About the Author
July
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About the Author
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One
Foreword
Cast of Characters
1. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy
2. An Intimate Conversation
3. The Wedding Night
4. A New Day Dawns
5. Homecoming
6. Settling in at Pemberley
7. A Stroll in the Garden
8. An Anniversary
9. Shopping!
10. Meeting the Matlocks
11. A Surprise for Poor Samuel
12. Christmas Guests
13. Christmas at Pemberley
14. The Days In-between
15. Twelfth Night
16. The Long Winter
17. Conflict and Calamity
18. Recovery, Recollection, and Revenge
19. Romantic Interludes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
A Sneak Peek at Loving Mr. Darcy
An Excerpt from Chapter One
Copyright © 2004 by Linda Berdoll
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berdoll, Linda.
Mr. Darcy takes a wife : Pride and prejudice continues / by Linda Berdoll.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-4022-0273-3 (alk. paper)
1. Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character)— Fiction. 2. Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious
character)—Fiction. 3. Married people—Fiction. 4. England—Fiction. I. Austen,
Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. II. Title.
PS3552.E6945M7 2004
813'.54—dc22
2003027655
Printed and bound in the United States of America
BG 20
For Phil
T
he renowned (if occasionally peevish) lady of letters, Charlotte Brontë, once carped of fellow authoress Jane Austen’s work, “…she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her…what throbs fast and full, though hidden, what the blood rushes through, what is the unseen seat of Life and the sentient target of death—
this
Miss Austen ignores.”
It is forever lost what Jane Austen might have made of
Jane Eyre
, hence we shan’t dally with such a conjecture. And however we are moved to defend Miss Austen’s unparalleled literary gift, we cannot totally disregard Miss Brontë’s observation, for it was quite on the money. Jane Austen wrote of what she knew. Miss Austen never married, it appears her own life passed with only the barest hint of romance. Hence, one must presume she went to her great reward
virgo intactus
.
As befitting a maiden’s sensibilities, her novels all end with the wedding ceremony. What throbs fast and full, what the blood rushes through, is denied her unforgettable characters and, therefore, us. Dash it all!
We endeavour to right this wrong by compleating at least one of her stories, beginning whence hers leaves off. Our lovers have wed. But the throbbing that we first encounter is not the cry of a passionate heart. Another part of her anatomy is grieving Elizabeth Bennet Darcy.
