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Part 1: Such Weather Here

Sat, 01/01/2022 - 6:00am
"Embroidery for Fire Screen" (early 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art)

Trifles Light as Air

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.

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It rained for several days before Twelfth Night, straining even the Morland family's equanimity.

It rained for several days before Twelfth Night, straining even the Morland family's equanimity. Catherine was torn between assisting her mother by keeping peace among the little ones, and indulging her own desire to venture out.

At least she could escape the weather in books: thank goodness for Mrs. Radcliffe!

Title from Chapter 11 of Northanger Abbey: "Oh! That we had such weather here as they had at Udolpho, or at least in Tuscany and the south of France!—the night that poor St. Aubin died!—such beautiful weather!"