Flash Fiction

Elisheva Bennet, Sylph

James Paxton Priestley

21 May 2025 — 4 min read

Author’s Note: The following piece of flash fiction is my re-imagination of a small part of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice (taken from Volume II, Chapter IX, pages 136-138 from the 2004 Oxford World’s Classics edition).[1] In my story, Elisheva Bennet signifies the delightfully complex character Elizabeth Bennet, and Wilhelm Arcy, the aloof romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy. In using Austen’s novel as inspiration, I changed its form, or genre, from that of a work of historical fiction to one of fantasy fiction, maintaining loose fidelity to the source material.

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