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Engaged to Mr Collins
The night of the Netherfield ball, Mr Bennet falls ill. By ten the next morning Elizabeth has accepted Mr Collins, so that her mother and sisters keep a roof over their heads.
Mr Darcy could end it all with his money, and knows that a rescue she must be grateful for is only another kind of bargain. The wedding is fixed for the eleventh of December. Only Elizabeth can break it.
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The novels
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Under Mr Darcy's Roof
Her father's codicil makes the man she refused the guardian of her marriage until she turns twenty-one in February.
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What Mr Darcy Forgot
Thrown from his horse in the Lakes, Mr Darcy wakes with nine months gone, Hunsford among them, and Miss Bingley tells him he is engaged to her.
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Married to Mr Darcy
Seen alone on Mr Darcy's steps, Elizabeth marries him to save her name. Six weeks later she learns she never married him at all.
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The Wrong Elopement
Lydia has run off to Gretna with Wickham. Elizabeth rides north after her in Mr Darcy's chaise, and at the first inn she answers to the name Mrs Darcy.
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Mr Darcy's Patient
Her chaise overturns in the snow below Pemberley, her leg is broken, and Elizabeth spends Christmas in Mr Darcy's house, carried from room to room by Mr Darcy himself.
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Mr Darcy Says Yes
In April she refused him. In August, with Lydia gone and her family's name going with her, Elizabeth asks Mr Darcy to marry her.
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Locked In with Mr Darcy
Shut inside Rosings by the smallpox, Elizabeth refuses Mr Darcy on the ninth day of twenty-one, and must sit opposite him at every meal until the gates open.
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Mr Darcy and the Heiress
A month after she refuses him, Elizabeth inherits thirty thousand pounds, and Mr Darcy is the trustee who must say yes before anyone may marry her.
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Stranded with Mr Darcy
The morning after she refuses him, Elizabeth finds Mr Darcy in a ditch with a broken leg, and the inn writes them down as Mr and Mrs Darcy.
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The Price of Longbourn
Mr Collins has sold his claim on Longbourn to a Bristol man who does not want the land. He wants a Bennet daughter, and the courts rise on the twenty-eighth of November.
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Snowed In at Longbourn
Snowed in at Longbourn for Christmas, Elizabeth has eleven days to clear a housemaid of theft. Her one ally is the proud man whose word put the maid under suspicion.
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A Darcy at Longbourn
Georgiana Darcy asks to stay among the Bennet sisters until the Netherfield ball. Her brother finds a reason to call every day.
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Engaged at Pemberley
To keep Lady Catherine from settling his life, Mr Darcy tells the room he is engaged to Elizabeth Bennet. She is too angry to contradict him.
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Mr Darcy Returns to Meryton
Elizabeth refused him in April and told him he could not be liked by strangers. In October he comes back to Hertfordshire to prove her wrong, with George Wickham working against him.
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Mr Darcy in Three Volumes
Elizabeth wrote Mr Darcy as the villain of a comic novel. Now all London is reading it, and he means to find the author.
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The Companion at Rosings
Mr Bennet dies, Longbourn passes to Mr Collins, and Elizabeth takes a post as paid companion to Anne de Bourgh. Then Mr Darcy comes to Rosings at Easter.
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What Mr Darcy Did Not Say
Found in a barn with Mr Darcy, Elizabeth is married by licence within a fortnight, to a husband who explains nothing.
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A Fever at Netherfield
Jane Bennet's cold was meant to keep her at Netherfield for a night. On the fourth morning the apothecary calls it a fever, and nobody leaves the house.