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Happy Yuletide one and all! I received a wonderful surprise on Christmas morning: not one but THREE fics! And more than that, I received one fic in each of my requested fandoms!! This is more than I ever expected, and all three fics come highly recommended.

This Epilogue to Jane Eyre is a deliciously dark canon-divergent take on Jane/Rochester:

Not everything, Jane learns early on, is real.

Words: 3,353
Rating: Mature
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

I was absolutely over the moon to receive fic for Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife. For fans of Lady Audley’s Secret, or Victorian Sensation in general, this lesser known novel is a must read. And what’s more, it’s freely available here.

The dreamy, romantic Isabel Sleaford makes an unfortunate marriage to a doctor with whom she is horribly mismatched. Of course her true love (at least in my now permanent head canon) is the more sophisticated Gwendoline Pomphrey. And then things go like this:

A Thousand Kisses
Words: 2202
Rating: Explicit
No Archive Warnings Apply

No canon knowledge is needed to enjoy all of this Victorian femslash goodness!

The Devil Does Not Ride Us Any More is a gorgeous canon-divergent AU for Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The language is sumptuous and the author gets the characterisation and diction just right. Lovely pre-slash for Narrator/Rebecca/Maxim.

Words: 1,522
Rating: Gen
No Archive Warnings Apply

If any of my writers are around, thank you so much for writing for me and making my Yuletide! I also managed to write my assignment plus one treat, which both recips seem to like, so I’m counting this as a win! The only problem is that next year’s Yuletide can’t possibly live up to this one!!