I am in a Caroline bashing mood. Any suggestions for books where she get's her comeuppance brilliantly?https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117131#msg-117131Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:46:18 +0100 Phorum 5.2.22 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117190#msg-117190 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117190#msg-117190Lizzy, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Darcy's Adventures Through the Looking Glass.]]> SandyL Tea RoomSun, 19 Jul 2015 09:08:30 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117185#msg-117185 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117185#msg-117185 Redson Tea RoomSat, 18 Jul 2015 15:57:58 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117161#msg-117161 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117161#msg-117161 Sarah Waldock Tea RoomFri, 17 Jul 2015 00:36:04 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117160#msg-117160 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117160#msg-117160 Sandy C Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 20:02:58 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117155#msg-117155 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117155#msg-117155
I like the idea. I could tweak the circumstances and make Darcy an Earl, Duke, or another nobleman who has a slight acquaintance with Bingley through mutual friends/university/whites. He was doing something on the estate, which someone of his standing wouldn't normally do, when he got word his sister needed him so he rushed to London without changing only to serendipitously have some sort of issue in Meryton. Of course he saw Bingley who took him back to Netherfield where a certain lady was nursing her sister through a cold, coincidentally enough. Caroline refuses to allow him entrance to the home so Lizzy sends Mr. B. a note asking him visit Netherfield and invite him to Longbourn. I think I will soften Mrs. B and the younger girls a little.

Hmmm, lots to outline. Thank you for the idea and reason to finally attempt something.]]> LizzyS Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 19:27:00 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117153#msg-117153 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117153#msg-117153 LizzyS Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 19:17:45 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117138#msg-117138 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117138#msg-117138> have her brother bring home a quietly dressed gentleman of modest manner
> whose coach has met with an accident, and she is rude to him and spurns him

A few years back I wrote a short story in which Caroline accidentally spurns Darcy himself, and is horrified afterwards to discover what she has done. The story was my attempt to explain how Caroline and Darcy ended up with such a weird relationship, in which she blatantly pursues him by methods that are obviously insincere and ineffectual, but he remains so patient with her that she never quite gives up hope.

- Alan -]]> Alan Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 06:54:38 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117135#msg-117135 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117135#msg-117135If it's a plot bunny you're looking for, here's a suggestion: have her brother bring home a quietly dressed gentleman of modest manner whose coach has met with an accident, and she is rude to him and spurns him, and then it transpires he's a nobleman travelling incognito for some purpose of his own.]]> Sarah Waldock Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 01:05:26 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117131#msg-117131 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117131,117131#msg-117131 LizzyS Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 00:19:27 +0100