Pride & Prejudice Variations

I love Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” After years of reading Jane Austen Fan Fiction, I decided to write my own variations!

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Pride & Prejudice Variations

by Tiffany Thomas

Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride

In this Pride & Prejudice variation, Elizabeth Bennet’s desperate journey to save her father’s life leads to a forced marriage with the reclusive and scarred Mr. Darcy. Will the beauty with fine eyes be able to tame the man with beastly pride? Find out in Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride, a Beauty and the Beast retelling of Jane Austen’s most famous work.

All Elizabeth Bennet wants her father to bring back from Lambton is a cutting of Pemberley’s famous roses. Little did she know that her humble request would lead to her father’s imprisonment, putting her father’s life and her childhood home of Longbourn at risk.

All Fitzwilliam Darcy wishes is to be left alone. Scarred by a horrific attack, he has retreated into the solitude of Pemberley, guarding his heart as fiercely as the walls of his grand estate, doing anything to drown out the pain. But when Elizabeth arrives on his doorstep, desperate to save her father, their worlds collide in unexpected ways.

In this captivating retelling of Pride & Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy must navigate a web of secrets, sacrifices, and misunderstandings. Will Elizabeth’s fine eyes soften Darcy’s beastly pride? And can two people so different find a way to heal their hearts and build a future together?

Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride is a Beauty and the Beast variation on Jane Austen’s most famous work – without the magic and involving a forced/arranged marriage.

Trigger warning: substance abuse and a couple of scenes with violence (not between Darcy and Elizabeth).

Read about the research for the book here.

Fine Eyes & Beastly Pride is a full-length, sweet regency romance novel of 95,000 words that is a variation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice.

A Most Beloved Sister

What if Jane Bennet had been born with a chromosome abnormality similar to Down Syndrome? Find out in A Most Beloved Sister.

In Regency England, Elizabeth Bennet faces a year of formidable challenges. Her beloved sister Jane, born with a disability, finds herself in the midst of societal pressures that test Elizabeth’s protective instincts. As the Bennet family navigates through these hardships, Elizabeth must confront those who might exploit her sister’s condition.

Meanwhile, Fitzwilliam Darcy, burdened with his own family secrets, grapples with his father’s mysterious past and concerns for his sister’s future. His path crosses with the Bennets under trying circumstances as he and Elizabeth confront their prejudices and misunderstandings.

As Elizabeth fiercely defends Jane’s dignity against the encroachments of the Bingley family, Darcy contemplates a revelation that could change everything. In a society where status and decorum often dictate actions, will the truth about the Darcy and Bennet families unite them or drive them apart?

A Most Beloved Sister” is a compelling tale of loyalty, truth, and the powerful bonds of family in the face of adversity.

A Most Beloved Sister is a full-length, sweet regency romance novel of 120,000 words that is a variation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. There is a trigger warning for mistreatment of persons born with disabilities.

Pride, Prejudice, & Permutations

Pride, Prejudice & Permutations—twelve, what-if short stories inspired by the original Pride & Prejudice, with more than merely tolerable tales that give a glimpse into several of our beloved Pride and Prejudice characters. These regency romance Jane Austen variations are unique and varied: some are silly, some are serious, and there is some magic and mystery thrown in!

  • An Attempted Compromise: What if Caroline Bingley and Wickham teamed up to drug Darcy and force him into a compromise?
  • Overhearings More to the Purpose: What if Mrs. Bennet overheard the soldiers discussing her youngest daughters in the crudest of ways?
  • No Less Brittle Than Beautiful: What if Mary Bennet was pushed into Wickham’s arms and they are forced to marry?
  • Keep Your Breath to Swell Your Song: What if the five Bennet sisters were famous, anonymous singers?
  • And Then the Murders Began: What if Elizabeth discovered a dead body in the Netherfield library?
  • If Only They’d Had a Son: What if Lydia had been born a boy? Same personality, only also the heir of Longbourn.
  • Nothing But Officers in Her Head: What if Kitty Bennet’s silliness were all a disguise to hide the fact that she was brilliant cryptographer?
  • For I Am a Married Woman: What if Lydia Bennet demanded to marry a charming Mr. Collins in order to be the first of her sisters married?
  • In His Nightcap and Powdering Gown: What if Mr. Bennet fell, bumped his head, and woke up with the personality and nerves of Mrs. Bennet?
  • To Yield Easily: What if Bingley’s abandonment of Jane caused Mr. Collins to offer for her?
  • Punish Him for Such a Speech: What if Elizabeth, tired of disdain from Darcy and Miss Bingley, got her revenge by boldly flirting with Darcy one night at Netherfield?
  • And Then the Dragons Came: What if Darcy’s encounter with Elizabeth set off a cosmic change of events that revived the ancient dragons of Briton?

When Summer Never Came

In this Pride & Prejudice variation, a worldwide disaster of epic proportions causes Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet to meet under extraordinary circumstances. In this retelling of Jane Austen’s famous work, will Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth find their happily ever after? Find out in When Summer Never Came.

In April 1815, the volcano Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia. It affected the climate so that in 1816, there was cold and snow throughout the summer all across the world.

How would Pride & Prejudice be different if it had erupted ten years earlier, drastically altering the climate across the world? Would Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still find one another in a year when summer never came?

Elizabeth Bennet has just experienced one of the most difficult years of her entire life. The loss of a beloved sister, a failed harvest, and the threat of freezing to death from a bitterly cold winter cause the inhabitants of Longbourn to do the unthinkable.

Meanwhile, Fitzwilliam Darcy is desperate to keep his family and his tenants alive. The scarcity of food due to a freezing summer has him taking extreme measures. His radical idea takes him, along with his friend Charles Bingley, to Netherfield, where his drastic experiment has the potential to save them all – or ruin his life forever.

Will the changed circumstances cause Elizabeth and Darcy to come together in unity? Or will his pride and her prejudice remain alive in spite of the terrible circumstances that are a result of the year without summer?

When Summer Never Came is a full-length, sweet regency romance novel of 130,000 words that is a variation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. Unlike Tiffany Thomas’s other novels, this one does not have a trigger warning.

The Sins of Their Fathers

How would Pride & Prejudice be different if William Collins came to live with the Bennets at Longbourn as a young child? Will Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still find their happily ever after? Find out in The Sins of Their Fathers: A Pride & Prejudice Variation.

Young William Collins spent his childhood under the oppression of an abusive father and an ill mother. When he becomes an orphan after a scarring tragedy, Collins is sent to live with his estranged cousins, the Bennet family, at Longbourn.

At the same time, Fitzwilliam Darcy passes through his own crisis. The unique relationship between the Darcy and Wickham families is revealed late one night when Fitzwilliam discovers his father’s unsettling secret—one that affects George Wickham to the core.

Elizabeth grows up loving Collins as a brother, but when he befriends Darcy and Wickham, Elizabeth wonders about her cousin’s choice in friends, and Darcy’s overbearing pride. What she doesn’t know are the heartaches of Darcy’s past that shape his intentions now.

As the beloved characters of Pride & Prejudice grapple with their disturbing childhoods, how will the choices of their parents be carried on to the next generation? Can they find happiness, or are they doomed to a lifetime of misery because of the sins of their fathers?

The Sins of Their Fathers: A Pride & Prejudice Variation” by Tiffany Thomas is a full-length historical romance novel of 85,000 words.

**Trigger warning: this book touches on child abuse**

You can read it on Amazon – it’s free on Kindle Unlimited!

A Look Behind the Mask

What if Elizabeth Bennet had an experience as a young girl which taught her that a handsome face does not mean a man is trustworthy? Find out in A Look Behind the Mask.

As a twelve-year-old girl, Elizabeth Bennet witnesses a traumatic experience that shapes how she views men.  She learns the hard way that a handsome face can mask cruelty and depravity.

This experience forever alters her relationships with her sisters, her parents, and her friends.

How will a changed Elizabeth Bennet react to Fitzwilliam Darcy’s insults at the Meryton Assembly?

Can Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy overcome their altered pride and prejudices to find happily ever after?

A Look Behind the Mask is a full-length, clean Pride & Prejudice variation of 112,000 words.

You can read it on Amazon – it’s free on Kindle Unlimited!

Also available on Audible!