Mr. Darcy's Mail-Order Bride: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

✍ Scribed by J Dawn King

• Publisher: Quiet Mountain Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice meets the Wild, Wild West.

In 1869, females are in short supply in the west while a single man in want of a wife is rare in the east. When lonely Charles Bingley convinces his good friend, Will Darcy, to write a letter offering marriage to Miss Jane Bennet, she likewise convinces her sister, Elizabeth, to pen the reply. Elizabeth is struck by the beauty of the letter and responds by opening her heart to the Oregon wordsmith, who she believes to be Mr. Bingley. It’s love at first letter—for both the couples. Misunderstandings and bad impressions abound as the true identities of the authors are discovered.

In the days following the double wedding, Will and Elizabeth Darcy face challenge after challenge while Mr. and Mrs. Bingley appear to live in wedded bliss. Will Mr. and Mrs. Darcy find their own true love? In this sweet variation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we will see open disdain shift to a wary friendship and the wary friendship grow to the tenderest of emotions—or will we?

Categories:
Radically altered meetings and developments
Other altered circumstances
Takes place in late 1800s
Additional or original characters added
Hero/heroine as farmers or ranchers
Story set in U.S. West Coast
Wickham gets his just deserts
Hero and/or heroine are not British
Consummation delayed from the wedding night
Darcy and Elizabeth marry younger than in canon
Exchanging of letters/notes (like in, courtship)
Non-Canonical Relationships:
NON-AUSTEN Character / Mary Bennet
NON-AUSTEN Character / Catherine Bennet
NON-AUSTEN Character / Mrs Bennet
NON-AUSTEN Character / Georgiana Darcy