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A Long Road To Happiness by Lisa L (PG-13)
Sorry for the delay in fiction there. Small intrusion of real life.
Fandom: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pairing: Elizabeth/Darcy
Author on lj: As far as I know, not.
Author's website: Also, as far as I know? Not.
Why this must be read-
This fandom seems to lend itself to AU's. In this story, it is supposed that our star- crossed lovers did not meet at Pemberley. As this is arguably, one of the more important scenes in the book, this story is pretty fantasically AU.
The real reason you should read this? Lisa L has got the Austenesque style down. This has points where I went "wow, is Jane Austen secretly alive, and writing this?" It is a bit long, and does drag at a few points, but the writing is really amazingly good.
A Long Road To Happiness
Fandom: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pairing: Elizabeth/Darcy
Author on lj: As far as I know, not.
Author's website: Also, as far as I know? Not.
Why this must be read-
This fandom seems to lend itself to AU's. In this story, it is supposed that our star- crossed lovers did not meet at Pemberley. As this is arguably, one of the more important scenes in the book, this story is pretty fantasically AU.
The real reason you should read this? Lisa L has got the Austenesque style down. This has points where I went "wow, is Jane Austen secretly alive, and writing this?" It is a bit long, and does drag at a few points, but the writing is really amazingly good.
A Long Road To Happiness
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Incidentally, the prevalence of AUs in Austenfic is probably down to the fact that few stories deviate from the canon pairing. Therefore, unless the author is simply going to retell the story from another character's POV or some other such variation on the original plot, there is little that can be done to change the story to make it fresh and interesting unless the author - as Lisa has done - uses a 'what-if?' scenario as their starting point.
ALRTH story link broken
ETA: I found it! (http://www.austen.com/derby/old_2003/lisal1.htm)