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    This is a reference guide intended to help writers of Regency-era stories by providing a quick place to check whether a certain phrase was in use in the era, and if so, how it was used. The earliest attestation dates of phrases that postdate the Regency era might also make this guide useful to writers of neo-Victorian fiction.

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    Pride and Prejudice canon divergence. Darcy has asked Elizabeth to marry him, she has refused. And yet, instead of going their separate ways they share a passionate embrace. When they're caught, they're forced into an arrangement neither one expected.

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    One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.

    (A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)

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    11 Feb 2024

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    Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy plan a quiet country wedding. Darcy's aristocratic relatives interfere.

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    Elizabeth tours Pemberley with the Gardiners a year early, while the Darcys are away at Ramsgate. She is intrigued by the housekeeper's glowing praise of a man who is highly respected by his servants and tenants, and a doting guardian to his much younger sister, not to mention so handsome in his portrait. But when she meets him in person two months later in Hertfordshire, he doesn't quite match Mrs Reynolds' description.

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    30 Nov 2023