When Elizabeth decides to out herself in order to save another’s life she risks not only her mind, but her family’s respectability and her whole life as she knows it. Darcy being tied to such an organisation is yet another reason for Elizabeth to despise him. His uncle, the father of Colonel Fitzwilliam, is a very senior member. The spell to lock up women’s minds is carried out by the Collegium of Mages and Darcy is a member of this. Therefore, as a woman who not only can practice magic, but actually does, in order to help people, Elizabeth has a good reason to be pretty wary of Darcy. This is a pretty terrifying thought, that a part of you will be, in effect, killed off. Actually, though, only men are allowed to practice, it’s not only frowned upon for a woman to do magic, but punishable, by a spell which changes the woman’s mind. Mr Darcy’s Enchantment picks up the story in Kent, when Elizabeth visits the Collinses, so you can assume the previous parts of P&P have already happened, but there is obviously a major change in the fact that people can do magic. Although I know that there are a few others out there which meld magic with P&P I haven’t read any published ones, which was another good reason to give this a go. Abigail Reynolds is one of my favourite writers of Pride & Prejudice variations so I was very keen to give this one a read.
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