One distressing night in Ramsgate, Elizabeth Bennet impulsively offers Georgiana Darcy aid. Scandalous rumours soon surround the ladies and Fitzwilliam Darcy, forcing Elizabeth and Darcy, strangers to each other, to marry. Darcy despises everything about his marriage to the daughter of an insignificant country gentleman with vulgar relations. Georgiana, humiliated after a near-elopement with George Wickham and full of Darcy pride, hates her new sister. Their family look upon Elizabeth with suspicion and do little to hide their sentiments. Separated from those who love her, Elizabeth is desperate to prove herself to her new family despite their disdain. Just as she loses all hope, Darcy learns to want her good opinion. He will have to face his prejudices and uncover the depths of Georgianaβs misdeeds to earn it, and Elizabeth will have to learn to trust him if she is to ever to find happiness being Mrs Darcy.
This book is a Pride and Prejudice variation featuring Jane Austen's beloved characters in scenarios of the author's imagining.
Categories:
Prior meetings of Elizabeth and Georgiana
Radically altered meetings and developments
Elizabeth discovers truth about Wickham before proposal
Proposal never made at Hunsford
Lady Catherine's confrontation did not happen
Caroline set-downs
Additional or original characters added
Extracting someone from a predicament
Georgiana and Elizabeth don't get along
Georgiana Darcy as a brat
Charles Bingley does not marry Jane
Truly horrible Mr Bennet
Fractured marriage with reconciliation
Consummation delayed from the wedding night
Elizabeth groomed to be Mrs Darcy by his relatives
First meeting at Ramsgate, not Meryton
Cunning or manipulative Georgiana
Friendship between Darcys and Gardiners
Altered or no Wickham and Lydia elopement
Friendship between Georgiana and Kitty
Forced marriage due to compromise (for D&E)
More prominent Earl and/or his family
Non-Canonical Relationships:
Jane Bennet / ORIGINAL Character
Mary Bennet / ORIGINAL Character
Catherine Bennet / ORIGINAL Character
Anne de Bourgh / ORIGINAL Character
Georgiana Darcy / ORIGINAL Character