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Fic: Faithfulness and Fortune
Mar. 8th, 2025 03:53 pmFFFX authors have revealed! I wrote a Persuasion AU wherein Anne's mother, Lady Elliot, did not die in childbirth when Anne was a teenager. This, then has changes when Anne meets Wentworth for the first time. The problem I had was twofold. One, the story kept trying to turn into Lady Elliot's story, rather than Anne and Wentworth's story. And two, I wanted to bring the Crofts in, both because my recip requested them and because it would be a nice counterpoint to Lady Elliot, but I couldn't think of anything for them to do besides one conversation towards the end.
Title: Faithfulness and Fortune
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Persuasion
Characters: Anne Elliot/Fredrick Wentworth, Lady Elliot
Written for: fiona15351 in FFFX 2024
Betaed by: olive2read
Summary: In a world where Lady Elliot survived, Anne and Frederick's courtship goes a little differently.
AN: Thank you to the members of the Little Details and Age of Sail communities on Dreamwidth for help with Naval details. I also found a helpful paper on Academia.edu, "Golden Harvest: The British Naval Prize System, 1793-1815" by Daniel K. Benjamin.
The song Anne sings for the boys to dance to is Miss Cooper's Fancy. (This website has notations on how to dance it.)
On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.
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The marriage between Sir Walter and Lady Elliott had been, at the time of its consummation, a love match; to be sure, both were from ancient families of wealth and rank, and it was an entirely suitable connection in which both sides equally bestowed honor and fortune upon the other. But that suitability had merely encouraged the match, not created it. They had become acquainted at a series of balls, while visiting in the same neighborhood; both were young, she was a noted beauty and he was remarkably handsome. He was active, and she was accomplished. That, combined with the encouragement of all others concerned, was enough to bring them to the wedding breakfast in the full flush of infatuation of which young people are capable.
( The depths of his vanity and the limitations of his intellect had not been revealed over the course of their courtship, for balls and card parties and picnics do not encourage deep conversation )
Title: Faithfulness and Fortune
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Persuasion
Characters: Anne Elliot/Fredrick Wentworth, Lady Elliot
Written for: fiona15351 in FFFX 2024
Betaed by: olive2read
Summary: In a world where Lady Elliot survived, Anne and Frederick's courtship goes a little differently.
AN: Thank you to the members of the Little Details and Age of Sail communities on Dreamwidth for help with Naval details. I also found a helpful paper on Academia.edu, "Golden Harvest: The British Naval Prize System, 1793-1815" by Daniel K. Benjamin.
The song Anne sings for the boys to dance to is Miss Cooper's Fancy. (This website has notations on how to dance it.)
On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.
***
The marriage between Sir Walter and Lady Elliott had been, at the time of its consummation, a love match; to be sure, both were from ancient families of wealth and rank, and it was an entirely suitable connection in which both sides equally bestowed honor and fortune upon the other. But that suitability had merely encouraged the match, not created it. They had become acquainted at a series of balls, while visiting in the same neighborhood; both were young, she was a noted beauty and he was remarkably handsome. He was active, and she was accomplished. That, combined with the encouragement of all others concerned, was enough to bring them to the wedding breakfast in the full flush of infatuation of which young people are capable.
( The depths of his vanity and the limitations of his intellect had not been revealed over the course of their courtship, for balls and card parties and picnics do not encourage deep conversation )
