Period Romance stories

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99 stories

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Ninety-nine stories about who gets to choose a marriage, and who is only ever chosen for one. A rich neighbor married off before he has unpacked, a sailor refused eight years ago whose sister is now let into the house by a father's debts, a scholarship with one condition — write every month to a man who will never write back — and a wedding date resisted long after her family expects it named.

TeenPride and PrejudiceA rich single man takes the neighbouring estate, and your mother has him married to one of her daughters before he has unpacked.Complete · 95 chaptersTeenPersuasionEight years ago Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse a penniless sailor; now her father's debts have let his sister into the house.Complete · 74 chaptersTeenNorth and SouthA parson's daughter from the soft green south lands in a smoke-black cotton town on the eve of a strike.Complete · 52 chaptersTeenThe Blue CastleValancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried, and has never in her life said a true thing out loud to her family.Complete · 45 chaptersTeenDaddy-Long-LegsAn orphanage trustee agrees to send one girl to college on a single condition: she must write to him every month, and he will never write back.Complete · 20 chaptersTeenSense and SensibilityAfter Norland passes to your half-brother, your family must build a smaller life with very little help from him.Complete · 7 chaptersTeenA LaodiceanOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Pair of Blue EyesYou play Elfride Swancourt, left to receive the architect sent to survey your father's crumbling church on a wind-lashed winter night.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenCan You Forgive Her?You are Alice Vavasor, engaged to the steady, patient John Grey but still resisting the wedding date your family keeps expecting you to name.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureCogewea, the Half-BloodYou are Cogewea, happier with a book than with the roundup your family expects you to ride.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureEleanorOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenEmmaThe wedding carriage is gone and it is raining on Hartfield.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenEvelinaA thick packet reaches Berry Hill in April rain, and your name is on the first page.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenFar from the Madding CrowdA yellow wagon of furniture and potted geraniums stops on Norcombe Hill while the driver walks back uphill for a lost tailboard.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureHelbeck of BannisdaleOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenIshmael; Or, In the DepthsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureKristin LavransdatterYou are Kristin Lavransdatter, lodged at a convent in Oslo until your arranged marriage.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMansfield ParkYou are Fanny Price, sent from a crowded, penniless Portsmouth household to live among wealthy relations at Mansfield Park.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMariaSix years of study in Bogota end at a gate in the Cauca valley, where the dogs announce you before anyone else can.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMiles WallingfordYou are Miles Wallingford, a ship's captain back from pulling Andrew Drewett out of the river alive.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMiss Ludington's SisterOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenMoodsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureNight and DayOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenNorthanger AbbeyCatherine Morland leaves her noisy, unmysterious family for a season in Bath under Mrs Allen's well-meaning, empty-headed chaperonage.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenPhoebe, JuniorYou play Phoebe Beecham, a minister's daughter navigating Mr Copperhead's ball and his awkward son Clarence with practiced diplomacy.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMaturePrecious BaneOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRobert ElsmereOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureSylvia's LoversOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe AmericanYou play Christopher Newman, a self-made American in Paris with money and no idea what to do with it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe BetrothedYou play Renzo Tramaglino, a silk worker in a coat too new at the shoulders, arriving for your own wedding.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Golden DogQuebec builds its walls at sunrise, habitants hauling earth above a river still under mist.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Hand of EthelbertaYou play Ethelberta Petherwin, a young widow whose polished name hides that her father is Lady Petherwin's own butler.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Minister's WooingYou are Mary Scudder, folding linen in a Newport kitchen while your mother warns you off the sailor asking questions no sermon answers.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Perpetual CurateYou play Frank Wentworth, curate of St Roque's, whose real charge is Wharfside, the slum district the old Rector left in your hands.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe ReefOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Return of the NativeYou are Eustacia Vye, burning a bonfire on Mistover Knap bright enough to answer a signal from Damon Wildeve, who is engaged to another woman.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Small House at AllingtonOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Sorrows of Young WertherYou play Werther, in the valley on family business you are glad to neglect, writing your choices into letters to a friend.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Trumpet-MajorOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Well-BelovedYou play Jocelyn Pierston, home on the Isle of Slingers after four years away.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Wild Irish Girl, son of the English earl whose family took these Connacht lands by conquest, sent to inspect an estate your father now regrets.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe WoodlandersYou play Grace Melbury, home from school to a village that assumes you will marry Giles Winterborne, the orchardist your father once promised you to.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenTwo on a TowerYou play Lady Constantine, whose husband has gone abroad again and left only instructions.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenUnder the Greenwood TreeYou play Dick Dewy, out with your father's parish choir on a snowy Christmas Eve, carrying carols from farmhouse to farmhouse.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureWashington SquareYou play Catherine Sloper, whose father's affection always sounds like an inventory of your qualities rather than admiration.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Bicycle of CathayA schoolmaster sets off on a bicycle with no destination and very few people to miss him.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Castle in SpainAshby has only a crowded Madrid platform to reach Katie, whose guardians have another marriage in mind.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Life for a LifeOn her birthday Theodora Johnston opened a new journal and began with the opinion most certain to provoke her sisters: she hated soldiers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA SimpletonRosa Lusignan abandoned her embroidery three times to watch the road below Kent Villa.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Tale of a Lonely ParishYou drove to meet Cornelius after his Cambridge entrance examination and listened as he recalculated every doubtful answer.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Terrible TemptationRichard Bassett made polite conversation in Bella Bruce's morning-room while admiration remained louder in his eyes.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Woman-HaterIna Klosking sat in the Golden Star at Homburg studying a year's names in the visitors' book.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAgatha's HusbandNineteen-year-old Agatha Bowen balanced on a sofa arm while two married friends tried to repair her unmarried future without invitation.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAn Old Man's LoveThe delayed post left you pacing the long garden walk with one black-edged letter in your pocket.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAt BayPreview · 1 chapterTeenAyala's AngelFour days after your father's funeral, the sale of his beautiful possessions had confirmed that he left only debts.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBenitaThe mail steamer `Zanzibar` moved beside the African coast on a sea so calm that its smoke lay flat behind it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenChristian's MistakeHalf an hour after the quiet ceremony, Christian Oakley stood in the Fergusons' room trying to understand the new name Mrs Grey.Preview · 1 chapterTeenChristie JohnstoneAt twenty-five, with rank, health, and eighteen thousand pounds a year, you had exhausted travel and amusement without finding purpose.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDiana of the CrosswaysYou arrived two hours late to a Dublin ball held for Lord Larrian, and the dancers claimed you before you found Emma.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDoctor ClaudiusYou pushed back from mathematical papers and philosophy books and announced to the empty room that you felt old.Preview · 1 chapterTeenEric BrighteyesYears before Eric Brighteyes was grown, Asmund the Priest found a lone woman combing black hair above a wrecked shore.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFrances Kane's FortuneAt twenty-eight, you kept the mortgaged Firs solvent by managing garden, household, servants, and your dependent father.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGod's Good ManMay entered St. If praise belongs anywhere this morning, it belongs to the Maker before the critic.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGriffith GauntA stray fox broke from Yew-tree Brow and drew the Cumberland hunt into a hard run across open country.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHer Season in BathGriselda Mainwaring lived as an unpaid companion in Lady Betty's household, where a ball card could matter more than a young woman's wishes.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn the Palace of the KingOn a cold November afternoon, Dolores de Mendoza reread a long secret letter in a narrow room of King Philip's palace.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn Trust: The Story of a Lady and Her LoverThe library at Mount had respectable bookcases, a worn Turkey carpet, and a writing table crowded with business papers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJoan HasteJoan Haste sat beside her mother's unmarked grave among the ruins of Ramborough Abbey and listened to the distant North Sea.Preview · 1 chapterTeenKirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years AgoDrumcarro's parlour held a high chair, a knitting clew, and the heavy quiet of an Argyll afternoon.Preview · 1 chapterTeenKit and KittyOrphaned Christopher Orchardson reached twenty-five under Uncle Corny's rule in a Thames-side garden where work left little room for ambition.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLove Me Little, Love Me LongTwo years after losing her mother, you divided each year between trustee Uncle Fountain and the household of Aunt Bazalgette.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLover or FriendEveryone in Rutherford knew that Geraldine Ross ruled Woodcote, though her calm manners made command look like considerate advice.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMadonna MaryPreview · 1 chapterTeenMarion FayYour brother's closest friend left Hendon early after the Marchioness rebuked him for addressing you without your title.Preview · 1 chapterTeenName and FameThe bright season at Aix-les-Bains made every hotel window a theatre, and the Walcotts were the pair everyone watched without knowing why.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNeighbours on the Greena triangular common, clipped lawns, pretty houses, and a hedge through which Mrs Mulgrave could see the Fortis sisters come and go.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNina BalatkaYour father's decaying courtyard lay beneath the Hradschin while Souchey repeated an accusation he would not soften.Preview · 1 chapterMatureNorine's Revenge, and, Sir Noel's HeirThe March express is crowded, the stove is warm, and sleet lashes the glass before Richard Gilbert finishes three lines of his newspaper.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOliver's BrideOliver Wentworth held Grace Goodheart's hands as though the new certainty of her love might vanish if he loosened them.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPeg WoffingtonMr Vane sat through a bloody tragedy at Covent Garden because Peg Woffington would speak the epilogue.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRachel RayYour mother's cottage faced the little green and wooden bridge where Bragg's End joined the road to Baslehurst.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRalph the HeirThe final evening before your Jamaican cousin's arrival left the Popham Villa lawn quiet above the Thames.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSant' IlarioAfter two years in the Papal Zouaves, painter Anastase Gouache left duty at the Serristori barracks near sunset.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSaracinescaYou entered the bright reception rooms alone while rain filled the palace courtyard and Signor Strillone finished a song.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSir Robert's FortuneThe dance filled the old Edinburgh rooms with reels, music, and voices, while Lily stood hidden behind a heavy curtain with Ronald Lumsden.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSpringhavenFrom her father's coastal lookout, Dolly Darling watches Springhaven's fishing fleet come home during the uneasy peace of 1802.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Amazing MarriageBefore dawn, you and Chillon sat awake in the stripped mountain house, your packed boxes already sent toward England.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Belton EstateFour months after your brother's death, sheep grazed the rented park almost to the door of the diminished family home.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe ClaveringsThe garden path turned beneath old trees while Julia Brabazon refused to call your past understanding an engagement.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Cloister and the HearthGerard Eliassoen's family had emptied its savings placing older children in trades, while his extraordinary penmanship pointed toward the Church.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Fair Maid of PerthOn Saint Valentine's Eve, Simon Glover closed his shop and warned Catharine against noblemen who treated beauty as licence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Golden Lion of GranpereThe Golden Lion filled its broad rooms with linen dealers and travellers while you kept its kitchens, stores, and accounts moving.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Laurel BushThe laurel beside the garden gate was crooked, heavy on one side, and fitted with a rough letter box the boys had built with their tutor.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Life EverlastingAn unusually warm summer found you still working while wealthier acquaintances had already abandoned London for their holidays.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Shadow of a ManThe galvanised roof ticks in the heat, pines break the salt-bush horizon, and Moya Bethune sits on the verandah as if it were a Melbourne balcony.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Tragic ComediansOn Capri, a casual acquaintance had remarked that your bold conclusions sounded curiously like those of a man named Alvan.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Vicar of BullhamptonAugust light lay under the cedar while Janet Fenwick asked how much longer Harry Gilmore must wait for your answer.Preview · 1 chapterMatureWhat's Bred in the BoneElma reaches the station after her pony objects to the downhill road, and Old Matthews catches the train before it pulls away.Preview · 1 chapter

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