# Answer key - fanfiction (Pride and Prejudice, chapters 19-23)

## Facts the fic must keep
- Mr Collins proposed to Elizabeth on the Wednesday morning after the Netherfield ball; she refused him; Mrs Bennet was furious, Mr Bennet sided with Elizabeth.
- Mr Collins is the Bennets' cousin and heir to Longbourn under the entail; his living is Hunsford, near Rosings, in Kent; his patroness is Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
- Charlotte Lucas is twenty-seven, the eldest daughter of Sir William and Lady Lucas of Lucas Lodge; her younger sister is Maria; she has brothers.
- Charlotte accepted Mr Collins on the Saturday morning; she walked to Longbourn to tell Elizabeth herself, and asked her to keep it from her family until Sir William announced it; Sir William came the next morning.
- Elizabeth was astonished and could not hide it; Charlotte said "I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home."
- Jane is at Longbourn; Bingley left Netherfield for London on the Tuesday, and Caroline Bingley's letter says the party will not return this winter; Jane is quietly unhappy.
- Wickham is with the militia in Meryton; Elizabeth thinks well of him. Darcy left with Bingley.
- November 1811 in the novel's own calendar; the brief says "1812" only to fix the period.
- Household: Mr and Mrs Bennet; Jane, Elizabeth (Lizzy, Eliza), Mary, Kitty (Catherine), Lydia; Mrs Hill the housekeeper. Mrs Phillips is Mrs Bennet's sister in Meryton; the Gardiners are in London.

## Must appear
- Header: Fandom · Rating (General Audiences) · Relationship (Elizabeth Bennet & Charlotte Lucas) · Characters · Additional Tags (3-5) · Summary (under 50 words). Then a title. Then the fic.
- The line "I am not romantic, you know; I never was." exactly once, exact, spoken by Charlotte.
- Elizabeth's point of view, close third, past tense. 600-800 words below the title.

## Must not appear
- A slash relationship or a romance between the two.
- Anyone not in the novel. A changed fact (Charlotte's age, Collins's parish or patron, the order or day of the proposals, Bingley still at Netherfield, Jane away).
- Any word or thing from after 1812.
- A second quotation of the line, a paraphrase in its place, or the line given to Elizabeth.
- A note after the fic.