Love and Marriage by solvent90 (PG)

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Fandom: JANE AUSTEN (MANSFIELD PARK)
Pairing: Fanny Price/Henry Crawford with a side of Mary Crawford/Edmund Bertram
Length: 3200 words
Author on LJ: solvent90
Author Website: solvent90's other stories at yuletide, and solvent90's fic tag.
Why this must be read:

This is an excellent, well written story, where the silences are almost as important as the things said. A powerful look at what may have been, it's not a happy story, but a necessary one. It's honest to a fault, and gives a new perspective on the canon characters. Definitively a different look at the Fanny accepts Henry scenario. It has a very good narrative voice, which makes for a quick, pleasant read.

Excerpt:

"I am afraid your cousin's is not quite a marriage of true minds, my dear," he said.

Love and Marriage

Comments

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Uhm, there's various ways you can go about it.

One is to look for it in the Derbyshire Writers' Guild (). The search engine there (http://www.austen.com/toc/search.php) is pretty good, and you can restrict the search by book. Other fanfiction sites are forums or static sites made by html pages, and there's no quick way to search them by book, I'm afraid.

Other sites are A Happy Assembly Forum (http://meryton.com/aha/index.php), 50 Miles of Good Road Forum (http://scotch-and-sirens.waw.pl/index.php), and Austen Interlude (http://austeninterlude.org/). (Of the top of my head; there are more.) The only way to find stuff this way is to search posts as you would any other forum, but it's a little bothersome, or post asking if anyone knows of any MP fics. Or trawl the stories' subforum. (The book the ff is based on is usually in the title. If it doesn't say anything, it's probably P&P.)

The other, more general way, is to search through the Jane Austen Fanfiction Index (http://www.jaffindex.com/ff_login.php). Here you will find stories no matter where they're archived, if the author has consented to be listed. You can use the search engine to look for stories by a particular book, or by theme, type or trope, etc. (Though if you're not used to this particular fandom, the tropes might seem a little random and alien.) Here there are a password and username you can use (case sensitive): Username: SASReader Password: Edinburgh (The passwords are site based--I gave you 50 Miles' adult one, because I think you're over 18, right?) If you need help using it, just contact me.

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Heh, I forgot, the forums (AHA and 50Miles) are closed. You have to be a member to read. You will run into this problem following links from JAFF Index, too, though, and becoming a member is not really that much of a hassle, so I would do it if I were you.

(It is a hassle for reccing though. *grumbles*)

Also, from the JAFF Index you will see broken links to a site called the Hyacinth Gardens. That's a big forum, and it's down. It should be up soon, though.

[maidenjedi]

Thank you - this is a big help!

(And yup, I'm over 18...for about eleven years now, lol)