Nineteenthcentury Stories

Inspired by Jane Austen's Emma. There are always two sides to a story. Let's hear Knightley's version. It's intended to be more short stories from George Knightley's POV as Emma fans already know what happens. I didn't want to re-write what was already known or written (I would highly recommend reading Emma first). In the future I plan to connect it into a novel. January 2023 - First draft complete. Editing in progress.

Alice was running, but from who? or more importantly what...

1977,INDIA, not an easy time for women to strive. There were a thousand of cons in her life, the only pros being her supportive parents and her self confidence. She firmly believes that nobody is born with confidence and self esteem we all have to groom ourselves into the boss bitches we want to see ourselves as. i have witnessed my mothers transformation with my own eyes. She was never a shy and docile women who let others make choices for her but she neither the bold, intimidating and strong willed lady who can probably manage to rule the world.

8-years-old Tommy is convinced he can fly. His friend, Alice is convinced he's heading for death. Both of them are desperate to escape their own hellish world. A story of childlike wonder vs the harsh reality.

Set in the Romantic Era, Millicent Harrington has experienced anything but the romantic. She is an intelligent woman, who loves to read and write, and a member of high society. After being left a widow, she is faced with an unexpected task against a familiar adversary in a fight to protect her legacy. Joined by an odd professor, follow Millicent as she navigates the perils of academia and high society. ✥ ✥ Updates at least once a week!

Alexandra James Carter is desperate to take revenge from Lord Edmund Eugene Markos for the death of her parents. She will go to any extent to break the pride of the chauvinist, and beg her for mercy. But he is different than her expectations. Edmund Eugene Markos, a man of huge power, and is positive that he won't bend at the will of that Alexandra. But the fate had something else planned. They will meet and fight but then? Who will survive? Everything falls apart for Alexandra when Edmund asks her to be his betrothed in public and gives her a choice. What will she do? Will she sell herself in the arms of the devil? @copyright,2018

Strength. Determination. Perseverance. These are the things that kept fourteen year old Luan going. Ever since she was a child, she loved to run, but being a girl the early nineteenth century, you would have to go through some obstacles. High heels. Tight and itchy dresses. Chores. And overall behaving like a lady let her down. However when Luan's Grandfather passes away, the person who had gave her the spirit of running, Luan was determined to achieve her Grandfather's dream, to run around the world. It would prove that a girl had more to her the being a maid and a pretty face, but can Luan run to the finish line? Genre: Adventure/Historical Fiction

From the day he entered her store, she wanted him gone. From the moment he laid eyes on her, he wanted to make her his. To her, he was a bad omen. To him, she was the angel for which he always waited for. He was willing to give her everything, money, flowers, jewellery, dresses, you name it. Will she ever be able to accept his love? Will she ever accept that he was the prince charming from the fairy tales she read as a kid, or will she continue to believe that there is no such thing as a 'prince charming'. ______________________________ Jungkook is a wealthy business owner, one of the wealthiest in fact. Stumbles across a store to find out his future, but he soon realises it was destiny that had brought him there. For the first time he met a girl that did not throw herself at him in attempts to gain his wealth, and he was determined to make her his. Image used for cover does not belong to me - all credit goes to the rightful owner Start: 14 JUNE 2019 End: 29 MAY 2020

❝I can assure you that I had everything completely under control. ❞ ❝Oh, is that what you intended on having engraved into your tombstone?❞ ❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅ Take a headstrong girl, a mysterious chauvinist, a missing father, an armed robbery and you have a web of lies and a mystery on your hands. Who knew acting ladylike would be such a challenge? ❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅ Highest - #467 in adventure #6 in 1800s and #5 in nineteenth century! Updates: Saturdays

To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.

In a slightly different 1820s England, Margot and her twin brother, Roland, grief the death of their father, and Margot decides to do something about his murderer. Originally published in Aphelion Webzine in 2004, "Institute of the Dead" is one of many stories I've set in a slightly different--featuring ghosts, demons, and vampires--early nineteenth-century England.

My beloved reader, this is a story where anything is possible. One must know that this is a glimpse full of despair, drama, fiction and (most importantly, perhaps) romance of the 19th-Century America.

It's been months since that fateful night on a doorstep when Timothy accidentally blurted "I love you" to his favorite cook's assistant. Ever since that moment, Timothy has been a dead man walking--at least, in his own estimation. How could he break the news of their understanding to his parents and live to tell about it? And yet, the date is set: December 24th, Christmas Eve. He has six days to prepare himself. Six days before what's unknown becomes known, and he'll find out whether the Christmas he's read about in books could be real.

It's the year 1874 when a British company arrives in the East Africa called the British East African Company. It involves itself with trade but something in the interior catches their attention. The Ajika community has both gold and diamond mines,something the British East African Company wants to control. The only problem is the Ajika community won't give up their mines but soon enough,an opportunity knocks on the door for the company. The chief of the Ajika community has only one thing worrying his mind,his second son who is to be the heir to the chief's position. Nobody had anticipated the death of his first son and therefore,the second son's behaviour had been given a blind eye. Amo is the boy every parent hates,every girl prays wishing not to see him offering his hand for marriage and every boy is annoyed but can't do a thing about him. His father tries everything but nothing can make him change his ways until... The stepdaughter of the owner of the British East African Company arrives in East Africa. With the aim of controlling the mines and the aim of controlling Amo's behaviour, the two parents decide to marry off their children as a sign of the treaty signed by the chief and BEAco's owner. Amo and Juliet are forced into an engagement.

A horrifying tale of how a man and his son spend their rainy Sunday

1876, America. Miss Johanna is the talk of the nation, due to her father's extreme wealth which invisible shadow controls the country. Yet she has no ambition of joining her fellow socialites and only seeks for true love. One day, she finds Liam Willow, a dashing young street urchin who would snatch her heart. Yet their love is forbidden between both social classes, and her father has another esteemed gentleman in mind for her, the grieving handsome widower Chace Worth. Will she be able to choose between the two of them? And will she finally be able to live happily with her choice?