The Strange Marriage of Anne de Bourgh

Introduction

I have recently finished my second full-length sequel to Pride and Prejudice, An Unlikely Missionary, which was published by Double Edge press in 2009. While laboring on this project, I felt compelled to remove a number of subplots I felt detracted from the novel's main focus and that, while a great deal of fun, were perhaps too frivolous for the novel in question. It was a painful amputation, but a necessary one, and yet these severed limbs seemed to have taken on a life very much their own. I have regenerated them, therefore, into stand-alone short stories, which I present to the reader in this collection. The title story is something of a novelette, and it tells of Anne de Bourgh's strange fate, as well as her cousin's attempts to rescue her from it. Will Mr. Darcy succeed? The next story, "A Battle of Wits," consists of an exchange of letters between Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, and "Mr. Darcy's Homecoming" relates the gentleman's return to Pemberley and his insistence that he "claim his prize" for winning the battle.

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