#reginald de courcy

[besotted-with-austen]

Edmund Bertram 🤝 Reginald de Courcy

Going after a woman who is clearly not right for them, ditching her before almost proposing and marrying the girl that pined silently after them a couple of chapters later, making the readers doubt the autenticity of their feelings due to the perceived rushed ending.

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough Letters 39 & 40

Summary: Lady Susan hopes to meet Alicia again when the situation is more favourable (ie: when her husband kicks the bucket). She hates everyone, but is determined to fetch Frederica and make her marry Sir James. No more Mrs. Nice Lady Susan!

Lady de Courcy writes to her daughter, Reginald is home! Yay! She begs her daughter to visit with Frederica so they can try to get them married. After all this anxiety, it's time to party!

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Your husband I abhor, Reginald I despise, and I am secure of never seeing either again. Have I not reason to rejoice? Mainwaring is more devoted to me than ever

Yay?

This event, if his wife live with you, it may be in your power to hasten. The violence of her feelings, which must wear her out, may be easily kept in irritation. I rely on your friendship for this.

Lady Susan kindly wishes for her friend to commit a little murder on her behalf. She didn't actually suggest poison but trying to depression and anxiety a woman to death is hardly better.

I am now satisfied that I never could have brought myself to marry Reginald

Well it's a good thing Lady Susan's decided this after the choice is gone!

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others; of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect. I have given up too much, have been too easily worked on

Lol! WHEN? She never actually changed her mind about anything. The whole time she's been determined to marry off Frederica and have an affair with Mainwaring. I guess it was really hard pretending to not be a coquette for a few weeks.

I love this line from Lady de Courcy, "This is the most joyful hour he has ever given us since the day of his birth." What a sad reflection on Reginald!

List of Reginald's Achievements in life:

Being born male.

Not marrying Lady Susan

Frederica runs much in my thoughts, and when Reginald has recovered his usual good spirits (as I trust he soon will) we will try to rob him of his heart once more, and I am full of hopes of seeing their hands joined at no great distance.

I am curious here why the Vernons want Frederica to marry Reginald so badly. Surely she is a better choice than Lady Susan, but why else? We know Lady Susan has blown through the entire family fortune, and she said her daughter needed to marry money, so it isn't for wealth reasons. I guess they just love Frederica and are worried that Reginald will chose someone terrible again if left to his own devices.

Which I kind of suspect might be true, lol.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Love and Friendship / Morfydd Clark as Frederica Vernon and Xavier Samuel as Reginald de Courcy

Frederica wears a cream or pale yellow gown with a yellow sash, pearl earrings, and a gold ribbon in her hair. Reginald wears a sage-green coat over an embroidered waistcoat of similar color, and buff-colored knee breeches.

It's a shame we don't get to see what Lady Susan and Sir James wore for their wedding, though!

[nerdgatehobbit]

Admittedly I took this screencap mostly because I liked how it was framed, but it gives a glimpse at Reginald's fancy coat and Susan’s dark outerwear layer (I don’t think it’s a cloak, but I don’t know the actual term for it).

[henryfitzempress]

Selected events of Henry II’s reign. A.D. 1157.

Jan-March: During the King's stay in Normandy, Louis seems to have held a Court at Orleans, whereat he publicly recognized the right of Henry II., as Comte of Anjou and Seneschal of France, to custody of the Abbey of St. Julian at Tours. Among the witnesses of Louis's declaration were, Joscius, Archbishop of Tours (who appears to Vaiognes. have contested the matter previously) ; Philip, brother of the French King ; William fitz Hamo ; Robert de Novo Burgo; and Hugh de Cleeriis.

Feb. The Queen and her children leave Normandy, land at Southampton, and proceed to London. Hence at Michaelmas, 11.57, the Fermor of Southampton charges :

July. It was now probably that Malcolm, King of Scots, surrendered Bamborough, Newcastle, and Carlisle to the King. Malcolm seems to have passed through Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire, and to have awaited King Henry at Peak Castle, in Derbyshire, and thence to Peak castle. have accompanied the King to Chester. 

The King invades North Wales. The English army Chester falls into an ambuscade near Basingwerk (at Counsylth).Eustace fitz John and Robert de Courci were slain. Henry de Essex, Constable of England, disgraced himself (as was afterwards alleged) by personal cowardice. With reference to this Welsh expedition, there are many entries on the Pipe-Roll of the following Michaelmas.

Sept. Royal Writ, ascribed to this year, and probably belonging to the month of September, is addressed to Richard de Camvill, Sheriff of Berkshire (whose term of office expired at Michaelmas, 1157). It is in favour of Abingdon Abbey. It is dated at Windsor, and attested, singly, by Earl Reginald (of Cornwall). A Royal Charter, dated at Woodstock, confirms an agreement made between William Woodstock.fitz Gilbert and the Monks of Furness Abbey (Lancashire).

The witnesses (chiefly north-countrymen) are Hugh, Bishop of Durham ; Robert, Bishop of Lincoln ; Robert, Earl of Leicester ; Richard de Luci, William de Vesci, Geoffrey de Valoniis, William de Agremont, Aubert de Grellei, John Constable, Henry fitz Suan, Gospatric fitz Orm, Richard fitz Ivo, and Richard Pincerna. This Charter is expressed to be expedited 'per rnanus Stephani Capellani,'—a Vice- Chancellor, who will afterwards appear in a like capacity as 'Magister Stephanies de Ftdgeriis, Prcecentor of Moretain.

Queen Eleanor gives birth to a son, Richard, at Oxford. Hence at Michaelmas, 1157, the Sheriff of Oxfordshire charges: In corredlo Regince.

Source: Court, Household and Itinerary of K. Henry II

Fancast: Tom Hiddleston as Henry II and Jodie Corner as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Chris Pine as King Malcomn of Scotland; Johnattan Rhys-Meyers as King Louis VII of France.

[ladysusanexposed-blog]

EXPOSED: Lady Susan promenading with one Reginald De Courcy.

[rosacotton]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: AUSTEN Jane - Works, Emma - Jane Austen, Lady Susan - Jane Austen, Lesley Castle - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Sanditon - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, The Watsons - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (TV 1983), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Sanditon (TV 2019), Лебединое озеро - Чайковский | Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake & Related Fandoms, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Reginald De Courcy/Lady Susan Vernon, William Fitzgerald/Matilda Lesley, Robert Martin/Harriet Smith, Edmund Bertram/Mary Crawford, Louisa Musgrove/Frederick Wentworth, Charlotte Heywood/Sidney Parker, Catherine Morland/Henry Tilney Characters: John Willoughby, Eliza Williams (Sense and Sensibility), Reginald De Courcy, Emma Watson (The Watsons), Elizabeth Watson (The Watsons), Elizabeth Bennet, William Fitzgerald (Lesley Castle), Matilda Lesley, Mrs. Goodard (Emma), Robert Martin, Harriet Smith, Mary Crawford, Edmund Bertram, Frederick Wentworth, Louisa Musgrove, Charlotte Heywood, Sidney Parker, Henry Tilney Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Retellings, Fairy Tale Elements, Lebedínoye Ózero | Swan Lake References, Drama, Romance, Humor, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Friendship, Fluff, Tragic Romance, Happy Ending, Villains, Plot, Seduction, Marriage, Relationship(s), Disapproving Family, Death, Grief/Mourning, Memories, Sisters, Sister-Sister Relationship, Leadership, Promises, Love, True Love, Longing, Stars, Schoolgirls, Outing, Falling In Love, Developing Relationship, Dancing, scheme, Consequences, Wrong, behavior, Implied Relationships, Last meeting, Rejection, Separations, Heartache, Leaving Home, Family Issues, Freedom, Heroes & Heroines Series: Part 6 of Jane's Fairy Tales Summary:

There can be found a fairy tale ballet among the works of Jane Austen. Bookverse, miniseries-verse.

[besotted-with-austen]

"They are determinated not to like me, I will make them eat from the palm of my hand!"

Lady Susan Vernon 🤝 Henry Crawford

[anghraine]

Would you please explain the Fitzwilliam family in "season of courtship"? I was a bit confused about who was the parent or sibling of x. A family tree would be very nice😊It was a very good fic btw, I loved it! (I'm very happy that I'm able to tell you that, I'm usually unable to praise authors of decade old stories, so I'm very grateful you're still available to readers)

Heh, thank you! Yes, I think I was ... 19? when I started it, and I’m 31 now, so I’ve definitely kept floating around for a good long time ;)

I skimmed over it, and it looks like I tried to fuse my early headcanons with my later ones in one of the revisions, which is why the AO3 version in particular is so bizarrely complicated (even for me). But as far as my memory/quick glance goes, this would be the family tree.

It’s probably worth mentioning that it folds together characters from three different novels. Lord Ravenshaw (here Darcy’s uncle the earl) is an offscreen character in Mansfield Park. His ruthless, pseudo-kindly cousin/second wife is Lady Susan of Lady Susan. Lady de Courcy is Lady Ravenshaw’s daughter by her first marriage (that is, Frederica from Lady Susan, after enough time that Reginald has inherited the baronetcy). 

Sir James Darcy is Darcy’s great-uncle the judge mentioned by Caroline Bingley, while Lady Darcy is his wife (I envisioned Sir James as much younger than his brother). Lady Georgiana is Darcy/Georgiana’s paternal grandmother, and not a Fitzwilliam at all.

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough Letters 35 & 36

Summary: Lady Susan is SHOCKED, shocked I tell you, that Reginald has sent her a break-up letter. How in the world could he believe a story about her? He must come and take his personal leave!

Reginald declines (smart man). He tells Lady Susan he knows that she's been carrying on an affair with Mainwaring the whole time and that Mrs. Mainwaring is miserable.

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Have I not explained everything to you with respect to myself which could bear a doubtful meaning, and which the ill-nature of the world had interpreted to my discredit? What can you now have heard to stagger your esteem for me? Have I ever had a concealment from you? 

Please tell me the truths you now believe so I can tell some clever lies.

If we are to part, it will at least be handsome to take your personal leave

Reginald dear, my charms do not work as well over letter. I need to redirect some blood flow to make you mine again!

Reginald: My understanding is at length restored

This also has an interesting parallel with Persuasion, the Elliots knew that Mr. Elliot despised them and talked behind their backs, they completely forgive him and then find out he still did hate them (except Anne). Reginald's "discovery" is the same, he relearns what he should have known all along. The big reveal is actually a re-discovery.

Reginal finally understands that he needs to avoid actually seeing Lady Susan. He walked right into the snake pit before, how FUN to see the most accomplished coquette in England. No, not fun, you almost married her!

One only must hope that she doesn't decide to come to any family reunions 😅

My own folly had endangered me, my preservation I owe to the kindness, the integrity of another

I feel like Edmund Bertram could probably have said this and I would have liked him more for it...

Also, would totally love to read the letters between Mr. Mainwaring and Lady Susan. Were they basically sexting? "I think of you as a slowly remove my stockings..."

[austeninspo]

She does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.

Reginald de Courcy, Lady Susan, Letter 4

[ao3feed-janeausten]

Principles and Propensities

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/MxjHKXg

by scrimshaw

January 25 Prompt: Jane Austen novels, any two male characters from different novels, conversation at the gentlemen's club.

Words: 143, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

Fandoms: Lady Susan - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Reginald De Courcy, Edward Ferrars

Relationships: Edward Ferrars/Lucy Steele

Additional Tags: 3 Sentence Ficathon, Actually 3 Sentences, Crossover, Secret Relationship

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[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough Letters 25 & 26

Summary: Lady Susan related her triumph over Reginald to Alicia. She told Reginald that she would leave the house after their argument, which resulted in a reconciliation. However, she is planning revenge because she was forced to give up the Sir James plan for the present. She tells her friend her next plan is to go to London.

Alicia says town is the best option, as Mainwaring is threatening to visit Churchill (that would be bad!). She advises Lady Susan to think of herself (lol) and leave Frederica behind. She also says her husband will be out of town so they can party like it's 1799.

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Honestly, the best worst line:

Silly woman to expect constancy from so charming a man!

But also, what a tip off for both Willoughby and Henry Crawford! If Jane Austen teaches us to fear anything, it's charming men. I think Wentworth is the only hero who is described as charming...

This is also such a sad commentary on gender dynamics. Mrs. Mainwaring's money was almost entirely under her husband's control. He is now rich and feels able to cheat on his wife without consequences.

Its effect on Reginald justifies some portion of vanity, for it was no less favourable than instantaneous. Oh, how delightful it was to watch the variations of his countenance while I spoke! to see the struggle between returning tenderness and the remains of displeasure.

Lady Susan has this strange duality of being very proud of herself for having the ability to do this, but then also hating Reginald for needing it to be done. It makes me wonder about the mysterious Mainwaring. Because Lady Susan does not like the very placeable Sir James, so maybe Reginald is just too moral and Mainwaring is the happy medium of intelligent and devoted?

Humbled as he now is, I cannot forgive him such an instance of pride, and am doubtful whether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.

The very difficult choice of whether to dump or marry him!

I must punish Frederica, and pretty severely too, for her application to Reginald; I must punish him for receiving it so favourably, and for the rest of his conduct. I must torment my sister-in-law for the insolent triumph of her look and manner since Sir James has been dismissed; for, in reconciling Reginald to me, I was not able to save that ill-fated young man; and I must make myself amends for the humiliation to which I have stooped within these few days.

Poor Frederica! Reginald is being punished for... *checks notes* trying to save a distressed teenager and Catherine must be punished for being smug. I feel so sorry for all of Lady Susan's "humiliations"

Flexibility of mind, a disposition easily biassed by others, is an attribute which you know I am not very desirous of obtaining; nor has Frederica any claim to the indulgence of her notions at the expense of her mother’s inclinations.

Lol, "Being open minded is for suckers"

You should think more of yourself and less of your daughter.

Well... okay.

I would ask you to Edward Street, but that once he forced from me a kind of promise never to invite you to my house; nothing but my being in the utmost distress for money should have extorted it from me.

How intelligent, Mr. Johnson.

Her folly in forming the connection was so great that, though Mr. Johnson was her guardian, and I do not in general share his feelings, I never can forgive her.

We know that Mr. Johnson basically disowned Mrs. Mainwaring over her foolish choice of a husband. And now it is proven to be a foolish choice. One wishes poor Mrs. Mainwaring would have listened.

INSANE Alicia Conspiracy Theory: I feel like this theory gets less crazy the more I write about it. Alicia is actually suggesting that Lady Susan send back Mrs. Mainwaring's husband:

Besides, if you take my advice, and resolve to marry De Courcy, it will be indispensably necessary to you to get Mainwaring out of the way; and you only can have influence enough to send him back to his wife.

Which sounds like what Mr. Johnson would want. After all, it is disgraceful for Mrs. Mainwaring to be abandoned, even if her husband coming back feels icky to us today.

Alicia also advises Lady Susan to leave Frederica with the Vernons, where Frederica will be happy and safe. I'm telling you, she's on Frederica's side. Mrs. Johnson is a double agent!

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough: Letter 41 and Conclusion

Summary: Catherine cannot bring Frederica to visit as Lady Susan had come and taken her to London. Catherine did what she could to prevent it and assured Frederica that she could write in distress. A+ on Aunting. Lady Susan did not reveal what happened with Reginald while at Churchill.

Suspecting that Lady Susan is monitoring their correspondence, Catherine determines to visit Frederica in town and try to bring her back to Churchill. Lady Susan asks if Frederica is looking well and suggests town may not be good for her daughter's health. Catherine urges her over several days to let them take her daughter back to the country and succeeds at last.

It is clear afterwards that Lady Susan wanted Frederica gone, as she marries Sir James herself three days later! Catherine maintains tacit custody of Frederica until she marries Reginald.

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Catherine is a bit wary that Reginald has actually left Lady Susan for good:

Pray heaven, Reginald may not be in town again by that time!

Catherine's husband continues to not be very bright:

Her manner, to be sure, was very kind and proper, and Mr. Vernon believes that Frederica will now be treated with affection. I wish I could think so too. 

To say that the end of the letters was a blow to the finances of the government is hilarious!

Mr. Vernon, who, as it must already have appeared, lived only to do whatever he was desired

I think this means Mr. Vernon is a malewife? Catherine really does seem to direct this relationship and hold most of the brains.

was met with such an easy and cheerful affection, as made her almost turn from her with horror. No remembrance of Reginald, no consciousness of guilt, gave one look of embarrassment; she was in excellent spirits, and seemed eager to show at once by every possible attention to her brother and sister her sense of their kindness, and her pleasure in their society.

Lady Susan has no remorse, maybe only regret, but she is able to show whatever emotion she pleases. Catherine is totally disgusted by her.

The first hope of anything better was derived from Lady Susan’s asking her whether she thought Frederica looked quite as well as she had done at Churchhill, as she must confess herself to have sometimes an anxious doubt of London’s perfectly agreeing with her.

For whatever reason, Lady Susan wants to be rid of her daughter, so she opens the door to Catherine taking her to Churchill, but of course she makes Catherine work for it!

Lady Susan’s maternal fears were then too much awakened for her to think of anything but Frederica’s removal from the risk of infection; above all disorders in the world she most dreaded the influenza for her daughter’s constitution!

LOL! I doubt it!

Lady Susan was managing three men, Reginald, Mainwaring, and Sir James. She loses Reginald, Mainwaring is unavailable, and she settles for Sir James. Without Alicia paying her way, it's unclear how Lady Susan is supposed to live, so I guess it's not surprising. By the end of the book, she is unwelcome everywhere.

Frederica was therefore fixed in the family of her uncle and aunt till such time as Reginald De Courcy could be talked, flattered, and finessed into an affection for her which, allowing leisure for the conquest of his attachment to her mother, for his abjuring all future attachments, and detesting the sex, might be reasonably looked for in the course of a twelvemonth.

Still so strange that they set Reginald up with the daughter of the woman he was engaged to! Then again, with how Lady Susan is I guess Frederica probably knew she would end up with her mother's sloppy seconds.

Whether Lady Susan was or was not happy in her second choice, I do not see how it can ever be ascertained; for who would take her assurance of it on either side of the question? The world must judge from probabilities; she had nothing against her but her husband, and her conscience.

You can only imagine that when Sir James has a freak horseback riding accident, she'll be back and the whole affair will start again?

Sir James may seem to have drawn a harder lot than mere folly merited; I leave him, therefore, to all the pity that anybody can give him.

This is VERY similar to Austen's final word on Rushworth:

She had despised him, and loved another; and he had been very much aware that it was so. The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. His punishment followed his conduct, as did a deeper punishment the deeper guilt of his wife.

But this is a wonderfully hilarious note to end on:

For myself, I confess that I can pity only Miss Mainwaring; who, coming to town, and putting herself to an expense in clothes which impoverished her for two years, on purpose to secure him, was defrauded of her due by a woman ten years older than herself.

I kind of wish we ended with letters, but maybe Austen just wanted to wrap up at this point. She does often have very rapid wrap-ups after the two main characters get engaged.

Here is the masterpost.

Anyway, I love this little novella and I hope you enjoyed reading along with me!

There will be character analysis next.