The Letter to Elizabeth

A Pride and Prejudice Variation

A few months after harshly rejecting Darcy’s proposal of marriage, Elizabeth goes to Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle and accidentally encounters him at a tea shop in Lambton. Already thinking better of him after seeing his home and speaking with his housekeeper, Elizabeth begins to realise that there is a great deal more to Darcy than the arrogant gentleman she met the previous fall. They spend the afternoon together and begin to fall in love. However, on that same day, she receives a letter from Jane that sends her and the Gardiners immediately back to Longbourn. Darcy later visits the inn with his sister and Bingley, only to find that Elizabeth and her relatives have left. And from this, their lives take on a completely different trajectory.

This P&P variation consists of a longer, richer path to happily ever after, as the encounters between Elizabeth and Darcy, (and to a lesser extent, Jane and Bingley) over the subsequent years reveal the constancy of their love, despite the more difficult circumstances that they now must face.

Believable variation

This variation feels like it could most assuredly have happened and E & D are put in situations that we can all empathize with, protecting themselves, feeling shame, feeling hope, making decisions based on the cards we're dealt, etc.. lovely storyline with a hard won, long awaited HEA.