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Gilbert Norrell turns up in 204 works open to everyone here. The average one runs about 6,800 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by cuttywren
"It is, after all, exactly how I began myself when as a boy of twelve I opened a book from my uncle's library and found inside a single page torn from a much older volume." This is not a retelling of a history, but rather a fairy tale of what might have been.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by kashinoha
Norrell calls upon a fairy-summoning spell to revive Lady Pole and ends up getting more than he bargained for. Raven King!Childermass AU.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by sherwoodfox
Childermass is tasked with investigating the new magician in York, John Segundus- a usually routine assignment that leads, quite forcefully and unexpectedly, to years of indecent and unacted upon thoughts of bright eyes and slender hands and pale skin that glows pink under the stress of any excitement.(Or, well, the title is summary enough.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by bookhobbit
Fill for the following prompt: "Norrell is growing increasingly, uncomfortably aware of his servant's disregard for personal space and tendency to loom. It is most aggravatingly distracting." Or: in which Mr Norrell pines, and Childermass takes action.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke+1
by bookhobbit
Strange and Norrell attempt to woo each other. They are not, in fact, very good at it.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (TV)+1
by onstraysod
Gilbert Norrell has helped Jonathan Strange reach beyond the Darkness to contact his wife in Italy. Now, with Strange's aid, Norrell needs to contact someone else: someone he cares about, someone he owes an apology.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by kashinoha
Mr Norrell, required to attend a family-related gathering, turns to magic to calm his social anxiety. That goes about as well as to be expected, much to Childermass’s dismay. Pre-series.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by neveralarch
Childermass was ill. His nose was clogged, his head felt like it was full of cotton, and his throat was full of sandpaper. If he was a wealthy man, he might have rolled over in bed and written the day off as a loss.Unfortunately, there were no days off from being Mr. Gilbert Norrell's right hand.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)+1
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms+2
by crossestman, somepallings
You'd never take Childermass for a reader of romantic novels, but he has bested many challenges in service of his master. Jane Austen doesn't like Bath very much, but you can still sometimes find her there.John Segundus simply wishes to be an obliging friend.Gilbert Norrell thought the book was horrid.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by bookhobbit
Arabella Woodhope is not Jonathan Strange's soulmate, and John Childermass isn't Gilbert Norrell's. All the same, they make it work.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by temporal-infidelity (gyabou)
One hundred years after their capture in the Pillar of Darkness, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell return to England. The year is 1917. A fill for the jsmn_kinkmeme.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (TV)+1
by onstraysod
After Jonathan Strange ends his magical partnership with Gilbert Norrell, Norrell is heartbroken. It is up to his servant, John Childermass, to encourage Norrell to admit his feelings for Strange and to offer comfort of an unexpected nature.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)+1
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke+1
by rubyofkukundu
Mr Norrell attempts to decipher a spell.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)+1
by onstraysod
When Gilbert Norrell's coachman gives notice, John Childermass decides it's time to teach Norrell a lesson about how to properly treat his servants.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by bookhobbit
After he and Strange escape from the Pillar of Darkness, Norrell has nowhere to go. Segundus offers him a room and Starecross. As so often happens in these sorts of situations, things get rather complicated. A fill for a kink meme prompt requesting postcanon Childermass/Norrell/Segundus.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
by temporal-infidelity (gyabou)
December, 1918. The war is over, but a new menace must be battled. Strange tries to cure the flu epidemic - but suffers consequences.