Fic: 'The Almswomen of Appleby' (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

[regshoe]

This fic has a long backstory... I was in Appleby-in-Westmorland in the summer of 2019, and visited St Anne's Hospital, which is really rather unusual as a historic almshouse that's still in operation. The almshouse happened to be holding a charity book sale to raise money for some work they were doing, and it was at that bookstall that I found a copy of The Flight of the Heron (50p for an omnibus edition of all three books—I looked at it and thought, hmm, that name sounds familiar, and it looks like a good book... and the rest is history). It also struck me that the almshouse would make a great setting for a JSMN fic—and so I wrote this as a sort of thank you for enabling me to get into such an amazing book and fandom. I took ages to settle on the right shape for the fic, but I'm now re-reading JSMN again and it's provided some inspiration for the 'moody worldbuilding about the Raven King' side of my fannish brain—so here it is at last. :)

The Almswomen of Appleby (1807 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, John Uskglass | The Raven King
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Christianity
Summary:

One of the curious stories told about John Uskglass in the years after his disappearance from England.

Comments

[garonne]

Oh wow, I'm so glad you happened across that copy of Filght of the Heron. I would never have heard of the book if I hadn't seen it mentioned by Luzula, who discovered it, I believe, thanks to you. And my life would have been less rich without it these past few years!

[regshoe]

:)

It was a bit of good fortune!