Pride & Prejudice Variation
Dear Sir,
Post-Hunsford · Jane & Darcy · Letters
The Story
After the Hunsford proposal, Elizabeth shares the contents of Darcy's letter with Jane. Jane — after quiet reflection during the winter months — does not want Darcy to suffer unnecessarily. In a spontaneous act of compassion, she writes to him to say that he was not wrong in his estimation of her feelings toward his friend. That letter changes everything.
This is a Jane and Darcy story. Jane is not a shrinking violet here — she tracks the household accounts, saves and invests her pin money, advises Darcy, and gently but firmly stands up to Lady Matlock. She grows into a woman who can meet Fitzwilliam Darcy not just with admiration, but with true equality. Their love is one of steady growth, mutual healing, and quiet transformation.
Elizabeth follows her own path. She finds a partner more suited to her independent spirit. Her happy ending is simply different — just as real, and just as deserved.
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Begin Jane's story — from the letter that started it all to the moment she delivers it to Mr. Darcy's door.
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Explore the real-world locations behind the story — Hatchards, Kew Gardens, Hampton Court — and wander through a gallery of character portraits and chapter illustrations.
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"I wanted to explore who Jane might become if she were given more room to speak, to act, to dare. In Dear Sir, she does not wait to be chosen. She chooses."
— Kinga Brady
Major rewrite and extension completed March 2025. If you purchased the ebook earlier, a re-download from Amazon is recommended for the enhanced edition.
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Characters
- Fitzwilliam DarcyAge 27, Master of Pemberley
- Jane BennetAge 21, eldest Bennet daughter
- Elizabeth BennetAge 20
- Mary BennetAge 18
- Charles BingleyAge 25
- Caroline BingleyAge 26
- Richard FitzwilliamColonel, age 30
- Viscount ArthurAge 33, Darcy's Matlock cousin
- Lord & Lady MatlockDarcy's uncle & aunt
- Lady Catherine de BourghAge 52
- Lord Kenneth Owen MorganBaron Morgan, age 29 — Darcy's business partner
- Lady Suzanne MorganAge 22, Morgan's sister
- Lord Gillingham (Martin)Age 27, from Cornwall
- Frederick WaltonAge 27, Lincolnshire — Darcy won his horse from him
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Not every scene I wrote made it into the final version of this novel. There are moments — small, intriguing, full of character — that I set aside along the way. Some deepened the story, some simply delighted me, but all of them belong to this world and its people.
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