Bethany Dellemans Jane Austen Fan Fiction

Short Stories: Pride and Prejudice

The Fourth Bennet Sister

Kitty Bennet begins to suspect that she may be a character in a novel.

30,985 words, © 2023

A Little Before Their Marriage

Rated Mature/Adult readers
Jane and Bingley manage to find some time alone during their engagement. Jane has ideas of what they can do.

17,467 words, © 2023

Caroline Bingley: Genius

Or A Truly Accomplished Lady. A silly story where Caroline has an income of 10,000 per year and Darcy is the one after her! What will happen when they both meet Elizabeth Bennet.

6020 words, © 2022

Another Offer of Marriage

Elizabeth could not have expected a more advantageous offer of marriage, or could she?

724 words, © 2022

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy keep trying to get married, only for their spouses to suddenly die, often before their wedding night. How could this happen so many times to one person?

871 words, © 2023

Inferior Connections

A twist on the elopement in Pride and Prejudice, written in collaboration with Amelia Marie Logan

2479 words, © 2021

Natural Laws

Mr. Bennet will not consent to Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy’s marriage. His reason proves all too valid.

874 words, © 2023

Names, Facts, Everything

Elizabeth gets some real information about Wickham’s character from a very fastidious record keeper

563 words, © 2022

Places, Dates, Everything

Darcy learns that Elizabeth does not like him, in a very orderly manner. A prequel to Names, Dates, Everything.

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The Best Proposal EVER

Darcy is extremely sure that Miss Bennet will accept his proposal of marriage, and she does! But is it only because she has recived distressing news from home?

1817 words, © 2022

Poor Caroline

Caroline Bingley has been having a hard time since the birth of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. Written in collaboration with Amelia Marie Logan

1301 words, © 2022

The Right, Honourable Lady Catherine

When Lady Catherine, “she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty” what was she really up to?

1452 words, © 2022

All’s Fair In Love and War

Mrs. Bennet has weaponized “compromise” in order to secure husbands for her ten fortune-less daughters.

1517 words, © 2021

In Service of a Brother

What was Caroline thinking when she broke off her friendship with Jane? The deleted scenes behind Chapters 21 to 26.

1465 words, © 2022

A Ride to Netherfield

A short amusing variation. Jane is forced to ride to her friend’s house on horseback; a thunderstorm and a sudden fall see her fixed at Netherfield indefinitely with a severely broken leg.

4025 words, © 2021

I Need a Favour

This is an amusing imagining of the deleted scene where Darcy recruits Colonel Fitzwilliam to be his Wickham reference. I made no attempt to use regency language.

410 words, © 2021

The Miss Bingleys

What if Mrs. Louisa Hurst was yet unmarried when her brother took Netherfield? A re-writing of Chapters 8 and 10 in Pride and Prejudice.

2176 words, © 2021

A Different Life

A melancholy story. Elizabeth Darcy dies bringing her daughter into the world. How does Darcy continue to exist in the world without her?

2397 words, © 2021

Miss Anne

Why can’t Lady Catherine play piano? Why is she always giving advice? And why does she only have one child? All these questions answered! Warning: This story features pregnancy loss

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Of Every Elizabeth

Darcy doesn’t call Elizabeth “dearest, loveliest” only because he likes her, he’s trying to tell her apart from the 30 other Elizabeths he knows.

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Sultry Tones

Mr. Bennet is still attracted to his wife and it’s… annoying.

840 words, © 2023

A Happy Circumstance

What were Jane and Bingley getting up to alone when Lady Catherine came to Longbourn. A short, cute story.

573 words, © 2021

Tiny Stories

Two very small, funny stories about Pride & Prejudice

Short Stories: Sense & Sensibility

Dearest Marianne

A sad story. What if Sophia Grey had never intercepted the letter from Marianne and didn’t dictate the terrible break-up letter from Willoughby? A short S&S variation.

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Taking one for the Team

What was Sophia Grey thinking when she saw Marianne’s letter? Why would she agree to marry the indebted Willoughby when she clearly could have done better. A “missing scene” from S&S

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Besting the Worst

John Willoughby and Fanny Dashwood, both from Sense & Sensibility, have been voted the worst man and woman in Austen. Here is their just reward…

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The Aftermath of Preservation

This is a missing scene that fits between chapters 4 and 5 of Sense & Sensibility. Willoughby put down his gun to rescue Marianne, but now he can’t find it…

To Anyone from the Outside

Short Stories: Mansfield Park

Maria’s Escape

Maria Rushworth has been exiled to the country after her elopement and divorce. Life with Aunt Norris has become intolerable, but what else can she do?

2064 words, © 2023

Henry’s New Passion

Her Dear Pug

Susan Price is recruited by her uncle for a mysterious task several years after the events of Mansfield Park.

1329 words, © 2021

A Quiet Observer

What if Fanny happened to overhear Henry Crawford explaining his love of herself to his sister? Would she change her mind about him? Read Fanny’s reactions to Chapter 30 of Mansfield Park.

3574 words, © 2021

#FreeFanny

If you have ever wanted to see Edmund Bertram knocked off his hypocritical pedestal, this is my gift to you!

922 words, © 2021

The Secret at Mansfield Park

In this farcical and fanciful story, a deep secret is revealed to the young people as they plan the play. What would happen if suddenly the inheritance of Mansfield was in question?

1255 words, © 2021

It was a Bad Idea, Edmund

Edmund hints that he started writing a letter of proposal to Mary while he was at Mansfield with his sick brother. What if he actually sent the letter? How would Mary respond?

1125 words, © 2021

Short Stories: Other

Everyone has Family

A series of visiting vignettes. Characters from Austen’s six novels and Lady Susan, visiting their families at different points in their lives. Set as sequels to the original novels.

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Fall on the Sword

In this short farce, every single woman in Jane Austen’s canon decides if they want to marry the newly single Mr. Rushworth or not…

2871 words, © 2022

Second Meetings

This is a re-writing of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance with Jane Austen characters.

A crossover, variation sequel. 20 years later, several Jane Austen characters meet at a party hosted by the Bingleys. Some of them are hiding secrets.

12840 words, © 2022