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Re: Jane and the Vanishing Valet 15 &16 & epilogue - 6 days ago
Well done! Lots of ring around the roses that made for pleasant diversion, but yes, the answer was there in the maze all the time. What else could it have been, really -- though I admit I was thinking perhaps a gender switch. No wonder I could not quite make that square peg fit into the round hole, LOL.by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
In the words of Charlotte Lucas... - 9 days ago
... you have a right to be proud, as the police technical advisor. Dick Tracy is a classic and having it available this way for new generations is fab. What a great project to be a part of. Thanks for letting us know, Jim, and I am looking forward to your next piece of writing here or elsewhere -- anything you plan to put up on Amazon?by Adelaide - Tea Room
Re: Jane and the Vanishing Valet 13 &14 - 11 days ago
Not sure I know the answer. In fact, I probably don't. But, reading fascinated. I love your wealth of historic detail.by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
True! Good point . .. - 11 days ago
QuoteElizabeth tried to attract her attention. “Mama, there is something you must know about Mr. Darcy. He is not…” Mrs Bennet, speculating with Lydia and Kitty about the colour of Mr. Bingley’s hair, did not hear, and the creak of a floorboard in the hall beyond was their only warning before Mr. Bennet opened the door to admit their guests. I could say that Elizabeth should have tried to takeby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Gold, All Gold - 11 days ago
All gold, indeed! Perfect title for this lovely fantasy.by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: All Darcy Could Do (Longer Version)--Chapter 12 - 11 days ago
Well, this is interesting. Like another reader who says she will wait until she thinks it is safe to read, I had earlier made the same resolution. Bad luck that I started reading again and ended up here. Okay, where is the next chapter, please? And, is Weldon some kind of super Darcy, and if he is, is that good or bad? You don't have to respond. Just the next chapter, please.by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Introductions - 11 days ago
I want to comment on Sabine's question, but first this. I have read the other comments criticizing Mr. Bennet for embarrassing his daughter. However, the embarrassment starts with Mrs. Bennet, who declares she would never have thought he was a steward if she had seen him before hearing that. So, that leaves Darcy irritated that someone in the neighborhood has been spreading ridiculous rumoursby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Why does Mr. Collins inherit Longbourn? - 11 days ago
Adelaide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This question came up as part of a recent Tea Room > discussion: > > 44 I have marked my point in the discussion but do not intend to suggest that you storp there. A number of good opinions came up and you can see the the thread for what everyone had to say. I think it was pretty exhaustive, but in this Teby Adelaide - Tea Room
Re: Why does Mr. Collins inherit Longbourn? - 11 days ago
This question came up as part of a recent Tea Room discussion:by Adelaide - Tea Room
Re: Both. - 17 days ago
So exactly what do we mean by prejudice? Is it always a bad thing? Anne shows prejudice toward Elizabeth's friend Penelope and thinks the lawyer's daughter is not the kind of person who should marry Sir Walter. But are we readers upset with the baronet's daughter for looking down on the struggling widow? Hardly. We agree Sir Walter would do better to stay within his own circle rather than eleby Adelaide - Tea Room
So is Lady Russell prejudiced or reasonable? - 17 days ago
MariaK (mariak? lower case?) wrote: Wentworth's behaviour with Louisa... ...is not something that would make a reasonable, unprejudiced person mistrust him. But Lady Russell does continue to distrust him when he shows up in Bath. Maybe some of this is her initial prejudice. It is hard to give up one's prejudice. Certainly, it is understandable that she might think badly of him for choosing Loby Adelaide - Tea Room
Since you mention it, a suggestion ... - 19 days ago
A story is composed of setting/scene as well as characters and plot. The things you mentioned that are back of your mind as you write this are pretty interesting and maybe some of them can help you even better tell the story of this world and these characters? What you described about the difference between Charles and Darcy is both in line with canon but also key to the shape of your world, inby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: An Even Path: 4 - 19 days ago
Lovely writing -- Quote“Remember when we used to make shadow puppets?” He shrugged. One year they'd loved that game. The next, they'd abandoned it. She couldn't say when or why, any more than he could. Childhood seemed to be slipping away, like light through her fingers. -- that etches a picture of a friendship too deep for them to remember when it started or to imagine an ending. With only twby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: A Man of No Consequence - Chapter Eight - 19 days ago
Ok, I admit to reading this chapter a second time. This time I chuckled even longer at the servant comparing Darcy to "an older pointer bitch." I think the young man from Derbyshire would find that description even more irritating than being confused for a steward.by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: A Man of No Consequence - Chapter Eight - 20 days ago
Delightful, just delightful! You could have made Mr. Bennet a mean-spirited sprite or twisted events to create a raft of new misimpressions and misunderstandings. Instead, you serve the story well and keep to the best spirit of Austen's characters. The Mr. Bennet who ran off to London once he realized his disastrous mistake with Lydia is the same man we see here. I can trust from this chapter tby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
I must agree with Nikki on this - 21 days ago
Although in my own separate post, I characterized Lady Russell as a busybody, the truth is that although she stood in the way of young love, there was nothing to suggest she had selfish motives. It does not fit canon to turn her into a villain who was attempting to keep Anne to herself while overlooking the good captain's virtues. Also, Lady Russell has a rational case and is no foolishly short-sby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Nature of the Beast ch 9-10 - 22 days ago
I think it's such fun, and brilliant, that Lizzy gets to know Fitz in the flesh and Darcy's wolf-spirit without immediately connecting the two. It makes sense that a girl who can talk to the animals would commune with the animal in the man even if she cannot quite stand the man. Meanwhile, Darcy the man is fighting romantic attraction and sexual tension, but it's too bad for him Lizzy has alreadby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: The Right to Interfere in His Happiness - 22 days ago
I wonder, though, if this argument would have worked, since the point Frederick makes in this story is that he may become successful. It was not the chance that he would fail in his career that persuaded Anne in canon to rescind her agreement to marry him. Lady Russell's patient wearing away had more to do with Anne's fears for Frederick: QuoteHad she not imagined herself consulting his good,by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Upon further research... - 24 days ago
...I would soften this statement: If Collins has only daughters, Longbourn falls back into the hands of a male who is the eldest grandson of Mr. Bennet. We cannot say for sure this would happen, but we can also not say for sure it would not. Renee suggests that possibly Mr. Collins would become the third generation heir who could break the entail for good. Maybe. Austen does not detail the eby Adelaide - Tea Room
Re: O--o-o-kay - 25 days ago
Mari A. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Apart from very few exceptions (the most common > ones, I believe, some baronies hailing back to > early Norman times, and some noble titles created > with different letters of patent so that they > could be inherited by women or younger sons) male > primogeniture was very much the norm in Georgian &gby Adelaide - Tea Room
O--o-o-kay - 25 days ago
Mari A. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quote If Collins has only daughters, Longbourn > falls back into the hands of a male who is the > eldest grandson of Mr. Bennet. > > I'm quite sure that that is only a fanon belief, > since we don't know the actual terms of the > entail, nor the exact degree in which Mr Bennet > and Mr Collins are reby Adelaide - Tea Room
Being entailed did not always mean it would go to a man - 25 days ago
Lady Catherine says of Rosings that Sir Lewis de Bourgh did not believe in entailing property from females. His daughter Anne is his heir. We do not know what the terms of the inheritance are but certainly, Rosings is not in danger of a de Bourgh male cousin stepping forward as did the Bennets' male cousin Collins. In that case, the entail specified the inheritor had to be male. Collins is thby Adelaide - Tea Room
Another possibility raised by Suzanne's and Janice's posts - 27 days ago
I cannot help myself. I am speculating like crazy about what could happen next. Mr. Bennet gives Darcy permission to marry Elizabeth. Perhaps he even calls her to the room and says so in front of Darcy. But whether Mr. B. speaks in front of him or tells Elizabeth later alone, she is royally p'oed that her father would put her off so cheaply. Yes, she wants to marry Darcy, but what good gentby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
That's the point I was trying to make, Suzanne and G. J. - 27 days ago
Given the disparity between a steward and Lizzy, Darcy might have thought less of her if she accepted him, thinking he was a steward. At least now when she eventually accepts him, he will know she is making a sensible as well as loving decision. Darcy likes sense in a woman, I think. On the other hand, I would not be surprised if Lizzy (who always struck me as a closet romantic although in Austeby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
No, I think there may be an even better scene... - 27 days ago
... that grows out of Miss Bingley hearing that not only did Darcy propose but that Elizabeth refused him. In fact, I would love to see Miss Bing attempting to hide from Elizabeth the truth of Darcy's real identity--oh, so many possiblities for duplicity add duplicity discovered. Also, as badly as Darcy felt that Eliz turned him down, would he be disappointed in her if he knew she would haveby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: I love you, too - 29 days ago
I wrote my first comment before reading some of the others and now I see that others are wondering about the clothes changing,too. I will just add that I rationalize it by assuming that big as the dog is, a man's clothes just hang on his more thinly shaped body parts and he is able as the dog (wolf) to just slip out of them. Is that about right? Does that description "fit"?by Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
I love you, too - 29 days ago
Despite the fantastical nature of this story, I find myself clamoring to suspend disbelief and "wolf down" every detail. For example, when you talked of how often Darcy was changing into a wolf while Elizabeth stayed at Longbourn, I imagined him rushing into corners and nooks where he would transform with his clothes still on, kick them aside in a pile where no one would see them, and then rushby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: In lieu of an update this week... - 5 weeks ago
Well, I guess this is a good enough excuse for slacking off ... Seriously, many, many congrats and I love the reaction of big brother.by Adelaide - Tea Room
I think Jim D hits the nail on the head - 5 weeks ago
Also, recall that in Pride and Prejudice that Mr. Wickham Senior was financially stretched because his wife was a spendthrift. Her habits of expense would have prevented them giving their only son a gentleman's education so Mr. D stepped in (I am assuming Wickham was an only child because no other is mentioned -- but come to think of it, there is a plot bunny -- a Wickham sibling, perhaps who haby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: A Man of No Consequence - Chapter Five - 5 weeks ago
LisaY, I agree with your analysis of Mr. Bennet as something more and better than the usual fanfic Mr. Bennet, where all we see is his sardonic wit, indolent avoidance of the family circle and obliviousness to his parental duties. Austen's Mr. Bennet has his problems, but he is essentially a loving father who rouses himself to action to save Lydia -- of course, it's too late then. He also realiby Adelaide - Derbyshire Writers' Guild