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Moon River by shavannibe for AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Oct 2025
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Before he became the duty-bound Viscount seeking a perfect wife, Anthony Bridgerton was a shattered young man barely holding himself together. Before she sharpened her quill as Lady Whistledown, Penelope Featherington was a quiet girl whose greatest champion was the late Edmund Bridgerton.
An encounter steeped in grief and fear binds their stories together in ways only they understand, setting the stage for years of unspoken history and unexpected feelings. Through grief, pain, and misplaced anger, their paths continue to cross until, eventually, they collide.Bookmarked by notesinthemargin
15 Jul 2025
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Colin Bridgerton and Marina Thompson have eloped, causing distress in their families. Anthony Bridgerton, as the head of the family, is determined to manage the fallout from this impropriety and protect their family’s honor.
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23 Jun 2025
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The Safety of Disbelief by shavannibe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
31 May 2025
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He wrote out of obligation. She wrote hoping to be truly seen. An anonymous letter exchange sparks an unexpected, intense connection between the formidable Viscount Bridgerton and the overlooked Penelope Featherington. Witty sparring melts into shared secrets, but neither realizes their soulmate is hiding in plain sight. When identities collide, the revelation could destroy the fragile love they built in secret.
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- Part 1 of Safety
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23 Jun 2025
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Of Gentle Things and Gentlemen by pussshhh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 May 2025
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Anthony Bridgerton was never supposed to confide in Penelope Featherington. But between the lines of their letters and the spaces between their meetings, something tender takes root.
As seasons change and scandals rise, they remain each other’s quiet constant—until friendship begins to look an awful lot like love.---
“You write like a man twice your age,” Penelope scrawled at the bottom of her reply.
Anthony’s next letter arrived with only one line:
“That’s rich coming from a woman who hides behind an alias to scold the entire ton.”- Language:
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29 Apr 2025
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Every Breath You Take by originella for Magnolia_Rossa
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Apr 2025
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Penelope Featherington is nineteen, and officially on the shelf. After her falling out with Eloise, she is surprised, once the season begins again, that her best friend forgives her. The largest party that season is to be the Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton’s masquerade ball, which Penelope attends, dressed as a woodland nymph. After a night of passion with a gentleman dressed as Puck, the pair (reluctantly on the part of Puck) go their separate ways, leading Penelope to find herself in a compromising situation just a few weeks later, during a double wedding ceremony. Who, if anyone, can help her out of this predicament?
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- Part 1 of You Belong To Me
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03 Apr 2025
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She made light with her feathers by for_the_pleasure
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Feb 2025
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Penelope breathes new life into Hyacinth (literally) and into Anthony (figuratively).
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09 Mar 2025
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I’m still here. experienced every shade on the emotional spectrum for 70k words. will tug on your heartstrings. heaps of angst with well-earned comfort.
So, so, sooooo incredibly well written. Sigh. 1000000/10 would weep to again, undoubtedly a work worth revisiting and consuming anew.
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The Night Brings Change by iamaslashaddict
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Nov 2024
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Penelope Featherington has tried both subtly and not-so-subtly to tell Colin that her cousin is pregnant with another man’s child and wants to pass the child off as Colin’s with a hasty marriage to hide the deception. However, no matter what she tells him, her friend is unwilling to see her actions as anything else but jealousy and a want of Colin for herself.
In a last-ditch effort to save Colin from a horrible marriage and a life of painful obligation should the deception come to light, she slips out of her family’s Mayfair home the night before Colin and Marina have agreed to run away to Gretna Green to elope… set on publishing a last-minute edition of Lady Whistledown’s column bringing light to Marina’s duplicitous acts. But, as she stands there in the dark of the Mayfair street, she decides to choose another option instead; an option that in one night brings change the likes of which she never imagined and the sort of love that will last a lifetime.
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21 Feb 2025
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Lord Bernidgerdon and his Unsuspecting Wife by laurially
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Feb 2025
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Addled with fever, Anthony Bridgerton has convinced himself that he is a married man and his family are keeping his nonexistent wife from him.
Enter, conveniently, Penelope Featherington.
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12 Feb 2025
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A Wallflower's Concession by Enaganda
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
05 Aug 2025
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Both Anthony Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington found themselves in an unexpected predicament.
Having lived to the scandals of their own, with Anthony being left at the altar by the Diamond of the season, and Penelope being found out by Eloise as Lady Whistledown; how can the Capital R Rake and the notorious gossip writer navigate the upcoming London season knowing that they must appease and heed the royal command of the Queen.
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- Part 3 of A Wallflower's Collection
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- 50/50
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08 Feb 2025
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Penelope tried to escape from her family alone. Anthony finds her while he is attempting to escape thoughts of Siena. Penelope succeeds, Anthony does not.
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03 Feb 2025
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Just Pretend by shavannibe for sunwilts
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Jan 2025
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Penelope Featherington returns to London after five years, determined to leave the past— and devastating heartbreak —behind her.
Finally happy, and settled down with a new career, Eloise asks her to be the maid of honor in her wedding, and she braces herself to face the family she once considered her own. While confronting the betrayals of the past and deciding whether to forgive, forget, or finally embrace the truth, she realizes that the past refuses to stay buried. Secrets resurface, old wounds reopen, revelations are made, and Anthony Bridgerton - once her bitter rival - is inexplicably, being nice to her?
Amongst unyielding friendships, family tensions, and unexpected sparks, Penelope finds out that a rocky path is sometimes worth the destination.
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03 Feb 2025
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Crimson and Clover by shavannibe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Jan 2025
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In that moment, Anthony knew. She wasn’t just someone he cared for, or someone he admired. Penelope Featherington was home, and he was irrevocably hers.
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07 Jan 2025
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take my hands, wreck my plans by paperpackedeyes
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Jul 2025
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What if Penelope had been on Anthony Bridgerton’s potential wife list and he “interviewed” her? He may believe he can interrogate her like a common suspect of the Bow Street Runners, but Penelope rises to the challenge and lets his esteemed lordship know that his list of qualities for a wife is utterly foolish. Expecting his anger, Penelope is most surprised to receive an offer of courtship instead.
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06 Jan 2025
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And Therefore Is Winged Cupid Painted Blind by princessinredlipstick
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Feb 2024
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Following the season of 1813 precisely four letters are exchanged between Anthony Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington. Following the season of 1814 a further twenty-three letters are exchanged.
By the time the season of 1815 rolls around and the two have struck up a rather peculiar friendship born of mutual understanding and shared humour. Out of shared camaraderie, both are determined to support the other as best they can through the pains of the season, neither one of them thinking of marriage this time round.
But with two matchmaking mothers, and a sister hell-bent on making Penelope a Bridgerton, well, best laid plans and all that….
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01 Jan 2025
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in love you have loosened yourself like sea water by for_the_pleasure
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Nov 2024
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Anthony, in trying to run away from fate, ends up running straight into its (her) arms. (Of course.)
(There's no other way it could end, really, when his self-appointed adversary is the universe itself.)
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18 Nov 2024
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When Anthony Bridgerton declared himself an active participant in this season’s marriage mart, he had not anticipated that he would find the crop of willing prospects thrusting themselves before him to be quite so unappealing, nor that he would instead end up spending the summer bestowing proposal after proposal upon Penelope Featherington.
Or, the five times Anthony asks Penelope to marry him, with increasing degrees of sincerity, and the one time she knows he really means it.
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14 Nov 2024
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Hear Our Hearts Speak by Molly_Jae
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Jun 2025
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They had danced, once, away from the gazes of Matchmaking Mamas, and it had left them with an odd sort of friendship that neither ever really spoke to anyone else about. They shared more dances throughout the seasons, more often than not away from wagging tongues and watchful eyes, always learning more about each other and even helping the other through romantic woes and troubled times.
Everyone watched as they courted and were courted by good people, only to end up exactly where neither thought they would ever be: with each other. Penelope thought him indifferent to romance after his failed courtship. Anthony thought her still in love with his brother. How long before it all unravels?
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- Part 1 of Hear Our Hearts Speak
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- 55/55
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06 Nov 2024
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“You have made it impossible for me to live without having you in my life.” Anthony's voice had gone hoarse with emotion. “My eyes gravitate towards you in every gathering,” he admitted, shoulders dropping as he regarded her. “I look for you whenever I hear the soft notes of our song and long to dance with you once again. I dream of dancing in empty gardens and halls with you. I ache for the day I am able to hold you in my arms. I have spent the past weeks trying to support your independence and the idea that you might one day become Countess of Dunmore, but I—I—” Anthony took her hands in his, relieved when she did not dodge nor pull away. “I love you, Penelope Featherington. And I know better than to keep it to myself when I feel this strongly, because you deserve to know when someone loves you — assuredly, fervently.”
…i want to eat this fic. My canon idc idc
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Finally Seen by push4champagne
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Nov 2024
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After two failed seasons in the marriage mart, public humiliation from the man she loved, and a painful fallout with her closest friend, Penelope Featherington had endured more than enough.
Determined to take control of her life, Penelope—armed with her wit and intelligence—crafted a meticulous plan. A plan to leave heartbreak, disappointment, and the pressures of Mayfair behind.
Her goal? To live freely as a spinster in the country.
Through careful steps and well-placed misdirection, Penelope succeeded. Away from the watchful eyes of the ton and the indifference of her family, she began to flourish in her new life.
But just as she had settled into a charming routine, a familiar face from her past unexpectedly arrives.
One late afternoon, four months after Penelope's escape, Anthony Bridgerton—the stoic and duty-bound viscount—shows up at the house across the street. In a Bridgerton carriage. With all his belongings.
WARNING: This is a Penelope/Anthony story. If this is not for you, please do not read it. Be kind.
This is a WIP, and a few beginning chapters focus on establishing the story. Separate Pen/Ant POVs to start. It's a bit of a slow burn.
* Explicit Chapter: 17
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20 Sep 2024
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After a failed courting attempt between himself and Penelope, Colin tries his hand at a little matchmaking between his eldest brother and best friend. With the help of Daphne, an adorable kitten, and a few naturally curated moments he just might be able to pull this off.
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“Colin, please tell me you are not actually asking me to teach you how to woo Penelope Featherington?” -- “No, of course not Anthony. That would be ridiculous. I’m telling you to woo her.”
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"I was just thinking perhaps you are meant to be courted by a Bridgerton brother, I just wasn’t the right one.” -- “Are you suggesting Anthony court me?”
**Story now complete, please see Ch. 30 end notes**
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20 Aug 2024
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A Wallflower's Discoveren by Enaganda
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
09 Nov 2024
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At the start of the 1814 season, Viscount Anthony Bridgerton had decided that he'll finally look for and take in a wife.
Having interviewed most of the ladies of the ton and found none deserving, his interest was piqued whilst at the Danbury Ball when he overhears his mother and sister speak of a lady in high regard; and in their comments found that this woman shares the same qualities he had been looking for in a prospect.
What will happen if he finds out that the same lady in question was no other than his sister's best friend and their long time neighbor, Penelope Featherington?
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- Part 2 of A Wallflower's Collection
- Language:
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- 46,558
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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10 Aug 2024