Matriarchy Classics

The Matriarchy Classics project is my experimental literature project to gender-swap classic literature. Research paper coming soon! Swapped books will be published in ebook and paperback formats.

Gender-Swapped Pride & Prejudice

What if every gendered word in Pride and Prejudice were inverted—while every other word remained the same?

Welcome to matriarchal Regency England, where inheritance flows through daughters, mothers rule the household, and a frantic Mr. Bennet is determined to secure advantageous marriages for his sons. Theodore Bennet finds himself instantly at odds with the proud, aloof Ms. Daphne—and thus begins a reading experience that is at once recognizable and deeply disorienting, revealing the hidden assumptions embedded in one of the most beloved novels in English literature.

Using a painstaking, word-by-word transformation, this edition preserves Jane Austen’s original text while inverting its gendered language.

The first in the Matriarchy Classics series, Gender-Swapped Pride & Prejudice is a striking literary experiment that invites you to experience a familiar world through an unsettling new lens.

Get an advance review copy of the ebook from me on Gumroad. Free before June 13th.

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