Thomas Langlois Lefroy
In 1796, Lefroy began a flirtation with English novelist Jane Austen, who was a friend of an older female relative. Jane Austen wrote two letters to her sister Cassandra mentioning "Tom Lefroy", and some have suggested that it may have been he whom Austen had in mind when she invented the character of Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice", as the courtship between Tom Lefroy and Jane Austen took place over the year or so that "Pride and Prejudice" was written. In his 2003 biography, "Becoming Jane Austen", Jon Spence suggests that Jane Austen actually used her and Tom LeFroy's personalities as the models for Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, but not in an expected way. Spence suggests that Jane Austen used Tom Lefroy's more gregarious personality as the model for the novel's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her own measured demeanor was used as the model for the male protagonist, Mr. Darcy. So while the exact influence of Tom Lefroy on "Pride and Prejudice" continues to be debated, it does seem certain that his presence in Austen's life is in some way reflected in the novel.
Jane Austen fan fiction
Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen – by Sybil Brinton (1913)Margaret Dashwood, or, Interference (1929) and Susan Price, or, Resolution (1930) – by Edith Charlotte BrownPemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued – by Emma Tennant (1993)Mr. Darcy's Daughters – by Elizabeth Aston (2003)More Letters from Pemberley – by Jane Dawkins (2007)Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict – by Laurie Viera Rigler (2007)"Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World' – "by Abigail Reynolds (2009)Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – by Seth Grahame-Smith (2009)Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – by Ben H. Winters (2009)"Longbourn --" by Jo Baker (2014)