#i am happy but also nervous

Author:EstellaB (@ravenpuffheadcanons)

Chapter: 1/25?

Rating: T

Relationships:Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe

Characters:Jemma Simmons, Holden Radcliffe, Daisy Johnson, Anne Weaver, some other canon characters, many OCs (this IS a big Victorian doorstopper after all), and Bessy Higgins! but not as you know her

Additional tags: Strangers to Friends to Lovers, eventually, Alternate Universe - Victorian, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Arguments about the Miasma and Contagion Theories of Disease, Class Differences, Cambridge University Act of 1856, Loosely Inspired by North and South, VERY Loosely Inspired by North and South

Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.

Chapter 1 now available on AO3!

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Fitzsimmons Appreciation Week, Day 5: Quotes and Poems. 

Okay, I am posting this today on the fairly flimsy ground that the title is from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The face of all the world is changed, I think.

The image is an excerpt of Shipping on the Clyde by John Atkinson Grimshaw - public domain. (It’s almost 30 years too modern; please don’t look too closely at the clothes or vehicles).