The Wedding Night
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- You may be looking for the story "Wedding Night" by trueriver, which is also based on The Charioteer.
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Wedding Night |
| Author(s): | poicale |
| Date(s): | 21 July 2004 |
| Length: | 1819 words |
| Genre: | wedding night story |
| Fandom: | Mary Renault |
| External Links: | archived on MRF |
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"The Wedding Night" is a short story by poicale based on Mary Renault's 1953 novel The Charioteer. It is set at the end of Chapter Twelve, when Laurie and Ralph have returned to the cottage after the wedding reception for Laurie's mother and her new husband, Mr Straike. Renault skips over the details of their first sexual encounter. Fans, of course, want more detail.
Background
The story was written for the Wedding Night Challenge on maryrenaultfics in July 2004.
Comments
"The Wedding Night" elicited a number of comments, including the following:
- "Oh, that was really tender and gentle – I’m so glad you’ve posted something lovely, there’s so much of Ralph’s briskness elsewhere and here we really get to see how loving he can be, as well as experienced ;). [...]"—comment by trueriver