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Shields and Roses; a Pride & Prejudice Variation
If Maleficent had no magical ability, how would she have carried out a curse on Princess Aurora and her family? Lady Catherine shows her the way in this story about unintended insults, unrelenting plans for revenge and the hope for true love to win over all. How will Lizzy, Darcy, Richard and others win when Lady Catherine sets her wits against them?
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First published September 2, 2019
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September 6, 2019
A rose in sunlight is nature.
A rose in the dark is poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
Lady Catherine is offended and an offended Lady Catherine is a dangerous Lady Catherine.
The Great Lady intrudes at Elizabeth’s Christening, insisting she will be the girl’s Godmother. Her husband, who was a good friend to Mr. Bennet, has recently passed. Since he was named as Jane’s Godfather, Lady Catherine demands equal rights.
Lady Catherine begins a scheme of revenge with the end goal not to be reached for twenty years. Meanwhile, she inserts spies at Longbourn, at Pemberley, and at her brother's and her father’s homes. Unfortunately for her, she fails to detect the spies in her own residence.
She enlists young George Wickham and a young Mr. Collins into her plan, paying both well. Richard Fitzwilliam and his father don’t fall for her ruse, but the older Fitzwilliam son and Fitzwilliam Darcy are in her trap.
This is a long, well-developed story. Be sure to notice the Shields … and the Roses, especially when the Roses become the Shields.
The story is currently unpublished and available at:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13214642...
Poetry is a garden haunted by the sound of crying roses. ~ Terri Guillemets
A rose in the dark is poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
Lady Catherine is offended and an offended Lady Catherine is a dangerous Lady Catherine.
The Great Lady intrudes at Elizabeth’s Christening, insisting she will be the girl’s Godmother. Her husband, who was a good friend to Mr. Bennet, has recently passed. Since he was named as Jane’s Godfather, Lady Catherine demands equal rights.
Lady Catherine begins a scheme of revenge with the end goal not to be reached for twenty years. Meanwhile, she inserts spies at Longbourn, at Pemberley, and at her brother's and her father’s homes. Unfortunately for her, she fails to detect the spies in her own residence.
She enlists young George Wickham and a young Mr. Collins into her plan, paying both well. Richard Fitzwilliam and his father don’t fall for her ruse, but the older Fitzwilliam son and Fitzwilliam Darcy are in her trap.
This is a long, well-developed story. Be sure to notice the Shields … and the Roses, especially when the Roses become the Shields.
The story is currently unpublished and available at:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13214642...
Poetry is a garden haunted by the sound of crying roses. ~ Terri Guillemets
September 9, 2019
This is a REALLY clever P&P complete change. It incorporates aspects of fairy tales without every becoming a fantasy. It was published as a serial but I chose to read it as a completed work and that influenced my wanting to give it a 4 star rating. This story is just over written where things are repeated way too much. I made me want to take a red pen to my computer. Now it isn't meant to be read that way so I didn't deduct BUT I WANTED TO.
Things are so changed that there is very little of JA's story or characters. But that's not a bad thing. This is a tale of much Pride and much less prejudice. Here the Bennets are friends of Sir Lewis deBourgh to the point that he is Jane's godfather. And it imagines if Lady Catherine was the deus ex machina of the entire story. Wonder why something happened because puppet master deBourgh was pulling the strings.
Trigger warning if you can't imagine a fictional world where Jane doesn't marry Bingley you probably shouldn't read this. There is a part where I felt like it was going to be a bad Jane story but that was quickly turned.
Again this is really long 193,006 words. And there are a lot of plots and a lot of misunderstanding and misdirection.
Things are so changed that there is very little of JA's story or characters. But that's not a bad thing. This is a tale of much Pride and much less prejudice. Here the Bennets are friends of Sir Lewis deBourgh to the point that he is Jane's godfather. And it imagines if Lady Catherine was the deus ex machina of the entire story. Wonder why something happened because puppet master deBourgh was pulling the strings.
Trigger warning if you can't imagine a fictional world where Jane doesn't marry Bingley you probably shouldn't read this. There is a part where I felt like it was going to be a bad Jane story but that was quickly turned.
Again this is really long 193,006 words. And there are a lot of plots and a lot of misunderstanding and misdirection.
September 19, 2022
I enjoyed this fairy tale with no magic. Well written and engrossing.
The ending was anticlimactic.
The ending was anticlimactic.
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