I, Sofia-Elisabete : Love Child of Colonel Fitzwilliam: Short Story Variations I & II of Pride and Prejudice

I, Sofia-Elisabete: Love Child of Colonel Fitzwilliam is part of the FREEDOM & MIRTH Series, which are variations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. For those of you who have not read Pride and Prejudice, or who have not read it in some time, know that the FREEDOM & MIRTH books stand on their own and you need not fret.In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the wealthy and proud Fitzwilliam Darcy, who prides himself on being a rational man and a true gentleman, has against his reason, his will and his manly character, proposed to Elizabeth Bennet, someone whom he considers inferior to him in many ways – status, connections, wealth, &c.Written in a unique voice using the vernacular of the Regency Era (1811-1820), with a tinge of modern sensibility, Freedom & Mirth: Or, A Pride and Prejudice Serio-Comic Journey (Book One) picks up during the action in Kent, England, after Elizabeth Bennet has soundly rejected Mr Darcy’s third-rate marriage proposal.Now, enter another dimension, where we begin to sketch a motley group of characters who misbehave in ways that reveal their eccentricities, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Our down-and-out manly trio – Mr Darcy, his friend Mr Bingley and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam – are slumming it in Sherwood Forest, disguised as laborers, and enjoying many a rough and tumble.Then it’s the ladies’ turn, where Elizabeth Bennet takes on Caroline Bingley in a petticoat duel that Longbourn will never forget. Meanwhile, Colonel Fitzwilliam and his new sidekick embark on a journey to Lisbon, Portugal, to search for something he has lost, namely, his love child, who is half-British, half-Portuguese-Galician. Hence, I, Sofia-Elisabete was born. A truly compelling new character in the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction: "Sofia-Elisabete, the abandoned little girl, is impossible not to love..."The year is 1810 and a girl is born amidst a great upheaval in Lisbon as it prepares for Napoleon's Army to invade Portugal. Half-British, half-Portuguese-Galician, she is the natural daughter of a British Officer, he being Colonel Fitzwilliam (the cousin of Fitzwilliam Darcy), and a lindissima, she being a young beauty who worked at her father's caza de pasto or public house.In the first short story, A Journey to Albion, we meet this irrepressible little girl, Sofia-Elisabete, as she sails to England to search for her father. In the second short story, Chocolate Destiny, she describes the two most important people in her life, as only she can tell it.Richly detailed and written in a humorous voice using the vernacular of the Regency Era (1811-1820), these short stories are told through the eyes of an enchanting eleven-year-old girl reflecting on her humble beginnings and her new life in England.These short shorts of I, Sofia-Elisabete: Love Child of Colonel Fitzwilliam are a spin-off of the novel, Freedom & Mirth: Or, A Pride and Prejudice Serio-Comic Journey, written by the same author. The Freedom & Mirth stories are variations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but they each of them stand on their own.