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To the home of the Crown Hill Writer's
Guild
Stories reflecting the world of Jane Austen by a select
coterie of ardent admirers and like-minded women
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!!News!!
Pamela Aidan is back!
The creator of the
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman series is back with a
delightful online novella. Young Master Darcy begins with
Fitzwilliam Darcy returning for Christmas from his first term at
Eaton. Ms Aidan gives us a glimpse into the life of the Darcy
family, and her vision of how Jane Austen's Darcy came to
be a man "given good principles, but left to follow them in pride
and conceit."
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The ladies of The Crown Hill
Writer's Guild wish to announce that we are going into
business! Regardless what Caroline Bingley may think, we want to
invite you to our new enterprise, AustenEmporium. This
is a little cottage business we have established to keep the
lights on in the guildhall. So, if you enjoy the fine fiction
created by our practice of the writing craft, browse to your heart's
content and buy with abandon!
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The Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
Series by Pamela Aidan
A Pride and Prejudice trilogy in
which Darcy's view of the events surrounding his winning of
Elizabeth Bennet to wife are related.
Available now
from Amazon, from Simon and Schuster:
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The Frederick Wentworth, Captain
Series by Susan Kaye
When Anne Elliot rejected Frederick Wentworth
in the '06, he returned to the sea nearly heart-broken and
determined to prove himself. When he returns nine years later, he
comes close to shipwrecking his own happiness.
Available now at
Amazon, from Wytherngate Press:
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Other Austen-based stories by Susan Kaye:
"If I Dream, I
Have You ..." If Anne Elliot and Frederick
Wentworth had not met again while Anne stayed with Charles and
Mary in the fall of 1814, but after her arrival in Bath in
early 1815, things might have been very different for one
of Austen's favourite couples.
Love Suffers Long And Is
Kind, with Laura Louise. On the
gravel path, after Frederick and Anne exchange those feelings
and promises of an earlier time, he tells her: "I was hers in
honour if she wished it ... " The "her" is Louisa Musgrove,
and this "what--if" explores how
Persuasion might have looked had Louisa
Musgrove wished to marry Captain Wentworth.
(Warning: Many hate the idea of separating Frederick
and Anne-in the beginning-but some come to love it better than
the original!)
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Read along as the first draft
for "For You Alone ...
" second in the series, is posted
online.
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Mercy's
Embrace
by
Laura Louise
Love
Suffers Long and Is Kind ends with Frederick Wentworth married
to Louisa, and Anne Elliot about to marry James Benwick.
While Anne happily settles into married
life, Elizabeth Elliot realizes hers is becoming very
unsettled! As a woman approaching the "years of
danger," she is no longer a young girl in her first blush of
youth, or a woman past her prime. Miss Elliot is that rare
creature that has improved in looks as she has grown older. But, is
she growing finer as a human being, and would anyone notice if she
did? One handsome man of the sea has noticed, and is doing
everything in his power to have her.
Laura Louise is also a
comedienne at heart and pokes a bit of good-natured fun at the
adaptations of Austen.
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We are
proud to announce a new addition to the Guild!
Charity Envieth Not
by Barbara
Cornthwaite
In the tradition of The
Guild, Barbara is retelling Jane Austen's Emma from the
hero, George Knightley's point-of-view. We are privileged to watch
as she brings Highbury to life, with all its charm, and gossip! As
the story unfolds, it will be interesting to see Mr. Knightley's
private thoughts on Mr. Elton's surprising marriage, Frank
Churchill's extravagant grooming practices, and a host of other
scenes from this Austen classic.
Welcome Barbara by reading Charity Envieth
Not.
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