From Jane Austen's regency readers to fans of television's wet-shirted romantic, there have been thousands if not millions of us who've hankered after a hero to match the eponymous Mr Darcy. The 20 original short stories in this collection have been inspired by the novels and characters of Jane Austen, or Chaton House, a place she knew and loved - a fertile playground for the writerly imagination... Sarah Waters introduces her slection of these stories submitted to the Chawton House Library Competition 2009.