12 Bookmarked Items in The Essential Creloise
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Eloise and Cressida, along with half the women of the ton (not Penelope, she stays in London, keeping up morale as a columnist), go to the countryside during World War II, arranged by the Women's Land Army. When the boys aren’t around, what is a girl to do?
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The one with the pig. And the Women’s Land Army.
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Perhaps an overlooked point of contention within their (fairly) new courtship: Cressida Cowper is too diligent a student regarding the finer points of feminine etiquette and flirting while Eloise Bridgerton is wholly uninterested (and uneducated) in feminine etiquette.
Or: Eloise is woefully oblivious and Cressida is perpetually (sexually) frustrated.
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Poor Cressida. Oblivious Eloise. Perfect language.
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“You should try writing to her, even if you are not to send them. I find, when I have so many feelings that I am unsure what to do with them, it helps to release them creatively.”
“But you draw, and I’m not much of a writer honestly. Well… most of the time anyway.”
“There are all kinds of writers you know. You believe yourself to not be a writer because there are so many of them already around you, but the world is full of creativity, full of art, full of someone who will always be better at something than you Eloise. Besides, I’m not asking you to publish a book of poetry for a long-lost lover. I’m just saying, try an outlet for once that doesn’t involve smoking on a swing?”
At that she had laughed but she had gone to bed with Michaela’s advice singing in the back of her mind and then had spent many nights when she couldn’t sleep in Scotland doing exactly as she had suggested.
And now Eloise stared at the never-to-be recipient of dozens of letters that hide in her desk drawer that resides in her room at Aubrey Hall and she is none-the-wiser and oddly calm and beautiful for someone who has been stuck with sheep for the last year.
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- Part 1 of With Love
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The one with the letters.
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“It does not matter, Cressida,” She says, sitting down beside her on the, certainly not made for sitting, little drawer in front of the window closest to Eloise’s table, “letters still exist and I would be delighted to exchange them with you.”
Cressida is afraid of putting meaning where there is none to put but she thinks she sees in Eloise’s eyes a desperate plea for agreement. It appears so concrete that it leaves Cressida speechless, she finds.
“Wouldn’t you?” Eloise asks when she doesn’t say anything and the desperate plea transforms to apprehensiveness and fearful disappointment.
“Yes,” Cressida swallows, “Yes, I would.” She gets up and says, more to herself than to Eloise, “It is settled then.”
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Surpringly sweet Cressida and Eloise and a happy ending.
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It has been four years since Eloise has seen Cressida Cowper and, in that time, both women's lives have changed for the better. They are freer, more confident, and undoubtedly wiser.
With Cressida's sudden return to the ton, Eloise seeks to rekindle their friendship and Cressida is powerless to refuse her. It is not long after they reunite that they discover that friendship is not all they desire from one another.
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A Creloise love story that takes place four years after season 3.
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Before her last year at Oxford, Eloise Bridgerton is hiding away in Bath for the Summer. Cressida Cowper is doing the exact same. It would be best if they avoided each other.
Funnily enough, they don't.
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A wonderful concept written brilliantly. Subtitled Cressida learns to drive. The last chapter is gold!
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The year is 1824. Eloise Bridgerton has remained staunchly unmarried. Cressida Debling married Penelope Bridgerton's leftovers. Marina Crane is dead.
Eloise is lonely, an offer is made, and she makes a pit-stop along the way to negotiating it. Her life is altered forever.
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The classic tlcwl. It is brilliant, sexy, sad, and ultimately better than canon thank god.
The heroic shoe rescue. Eloise the dashing knight saving her damsel in distress.
Eloise is a touch comp het. But it does work out.
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"Eloise did not dream of white knights on trusty steeds or gallant princes from faraway lands come to whisk her off to a castle that might as well be a jail cell. Once she might have dreamt of a handsome printer’s assistant in a grubby print shop. Once she might have dreamt of the smell of rose water on skin and the sound of a tinkling laugh that delighted in everything she said. Now she dreamed only of freedom."
In which Eloise is an unsatisfied spinster and travels to Wales to meet a friend.
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One of the BEST fix its. Perfect canon story. Bring hankies.
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If you had asked Eloise Bridgerton to name the thing she least wanted in all the world, it would be the thing she has now promised to do: escorting Cressida Cowper to the furthest extremity of the kingdom so she can be married to an old man utterly undeserving of her.
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A brilliant, witty, ultimately happy Creloise story. Although Eloise takes her bloody time to get a clue. Highly recommend.
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All the World's a Stage by cjr
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 May 2024
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Cressida Cowper was not a nice lady. She was not kind or quiet or demure, the way a lady ought to be. She didn't shine. She didn't curtsey deep enough. Her styles were too noisy. Her sleeves too big. And she was downright cruel.
These are some of the reasons she'd been given for why fewer and fewer men asked for a spot on her dance card each season. Which was fine with her, perhaps if she held out for another couple of years her parents would forget about her entirely and she could transition to spinsterhood in peace.
She had been fine being mean. She was good at it. It was one of the few things she was good at. As she aged, her demeanor got harsher and her sleeves got bigger and her prospects slimmed.
And then she'd been reintroduced to Eloise Bridgerton at a summer house party and it had all gone to shit. Because now she had ideas about women and competition and being nice and apologizing and caring and living authentically.
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I cry every time, but eventually with happiness. The one with the ball.🏀
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“Seeing as though we both have something to gain from being off of the marriage market, why don't we make an agreement?” Mr. Bridgerton’s body had completely turned towards Cressida, knees slightly bumping against her own. “And before you say no, just hear me out–”
“What exactly do you have to gain from being wed?” Cressida asked before she could stop herself. She tensed when Mr. Bridgerton’s unbandaged hand gripped at her gloved wrist. She could feel her pulse quicken at the touch–
In which Elliot Bridgerton isn't actually Elliot Bridgerton and somehow that becomes Cressida Cowper's problem.
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- Part 1 of a degree to love
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Best Elliot.
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"But in loving, Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole bookful of these quondam carpetmongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love." - Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Scene II
When an accident befalls Eloise, Cressida, Gregory, and Hyacinth, the Bridgertons rally around them and escape from Mayfair during the middle of the season. At Aubrey Hall, Cressida reveals herself, little by little, as she and Eloise navigate the treacherous waters together.
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The Eloise teaches Cressida to swim AU.
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Amazing canonish period appropriate Creloise! One of the classics.