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Trifles Light as Air

"Embroidery for Fire Screen" (early 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art)

"Embroidery for Fire Screen" (early 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art)

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A collection of one-shots based on Northanger Abbey: drabbles, flash fiction, missing scenes, and more. Title from Shakespeare's Othello, as quoted by Jane Austen in Chapter One. Now available as an eBook via Draft2Digital.

tags: Northanger Abbey, books, fan fiction, scrimshaw

Part 1

Jan. 01, 2022Comments 		Such Weather Here
It rained for several days before Twelfth Night, straining even the Morland family's equanimity.

Part 2

Jan. 08, 2022Comments 		Moderation and Composure
Taking tea with Mrs. Allen was a regular occurrence for Mrs. Morland and any of her children deemed capable of sitting for so long.

Part 3

Jan. 15, 2022Comments 		Uncomfortably Circumstanced
There were few occasions more delightful to Eleanor than a visit from her brothers.

Part 4

Jan. 22, 2022Comments 		The Object of Expectation
It was not completely unknown for the Morlands to dine with the Allens, but an occasion all the same.

Part 5

Jan. 29, 2022Comments 		Middling
Though Woodston was ostensibly his home, the parsonage remained bare and the parish often left to his curate.

Part 6

Feb. 05, 2022Comments 		Friendship's Progress
After sitting through plays and sermons together, the ladies determined on the more industrious activity of visiting shops.

Part 7

Feb. 12, 2022Comments 		The Force of Love
James Morland did not, as a general rule, drive so fast as his friend (when he had the opportunity to drive at all).

Part 8

Feb. 19, 2022Comments 		Fresh Feelings of Every Sort
When Eleanor inquired after Miss Morland's opinion, Henry was slightly shamed to realize he had, if not forgotten, ignored their companion for some time.

Part 9

Feb. 26, 2022Comments 		Satisfactory Meditations
"Catherine, abandoning any pretence of work, took up a novel later by the fire." In which our heroine spends a day stuck indoors at Pulteney Street.

Part 10

Mar. 05, 2022Comments 		Discretion
Mr. Allen paused in his letter to the Morlands, considering how to describe the Tilney family's sons.

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