Afternoon Dress for November 1800

Fashion Plate (Afternoon Dress for Novr. 1800); Los Angeles County Museum of Art [Public domain]; via Wikimedia Commons.

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“She did not tell me directly,” Westonbury replied, rising to cross to the window. “I overheard her talking to a friend at Almack’s. It seems her daughter was on the point of being happily betrothed until the fellow found someone else – with deeper pockets and a more willing charm – that is how she said it. Just like that, with a suggestive lilt to her tone. She then added that Miss –” He waved his hand in a circle in front of him as if attempting to draw a scent towards him.

The action was familiar to Darcy. His cousin had always made that same motion when attempting to recall something.

“Oh, I cannot remember! But it matters not who she is to me. However, according to Mrs. Salter…”

[from Loving Lydia, book 3 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

2 thoughts on “Afternoon Dress for November 1800”

  1. Mrs. Slater, grrrrr! What is that woman up to now? I love those photos/plates of what they wore in 1800. They are so amazing. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing what the sea-witch is up to and what she is about. I think I am beginning to like her as a villainess. I mean, you have tamed Caroline and Lady Catherine… well we ignore her. It was time to have a snake-ess in the garden. [snicker]

    1. Lord Westonbury is relating how he heard about Lydia, and I thought these two ladies could be Mrs. Salter and the friend to whom she is gossiping. 🙂

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