Erm
OK, granted that Mr. Bennet is being wildly irresponsible, we might be being a little too hard on him. Asking him to save 500 a year is asking him to cut his expenditures down to 3/4 of their former...
View ArticleRe: Two hundred and fifty a year
Isn't it funny how we have a hard time understanding how "it's never enough" when it comes to another era or country, but understand how it applies to us intuitively? Our own expenses are, of course,...
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I would think that confession would have been part of his proposal. I think a gentleman of character would feel a desire, if not an obligation, to explain what errors he had, and what errors he had...
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Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> OK, granted that Mr. Bennet is being wildly> irresponsible, we might be being a little too hard> on him. Asking him to...
View ArticleMeant to say well-to-do family rather than wealthy(nfm)
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I agree. Mr. Bennet suggests (though perhaps jokingly) that in sending Lydia a hundred pounds a year, he's only out ten pounds more than he was with her at home. There probably wasn't a specific...
View ArticleRe: Erm--yes and no
Alberta Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------, the regency version does> not require 2100 divided by seven, with us> imagining that each Bennet daughter needs or is>...
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I'm going to agree with Lizzy and say I believe we are being too hard on Mr. Bennet. I'm also going to throw out a quote from chapter 50:"Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of...
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For books, yes, it is 3 volumes, but all can be got in one in the Kindle edition. Quite worth the buying!!
View ArticleHow does a son help to break the entail?
I thought entails were/still are(?) unbreakable. No?
View ArticleRe: How does a son help to break the entail?
You could, in theory, get together all remaining generations of an entail and agree to void the contract. Everybody had to be of age in order for this to be legal, so not only was Mr. Bennet counting...
View ArticleRe: Erm--yes and no
I do feel like I need to point out here the relative prices of stuff vs. labor. In our day and age stuff is comparatively cheap, meaning that if two people live together, it doesn't cost double to...
View ArticleRe: How does a son help to break the entail?
Yep. Entails more or less in perpetuity were getting to be frowned on. There was even a reform law passed stating that you couldn't leave it further than you grandson, but I'm guessing that must have...
View ArticleRe: How does a son help to break the entail?
It might have been in the family for several generations and renewed, that is why the next male heir presumptive is Mr Bennet's cousin, but still a personal descendant of the first owner of the...
View ArticleRe: Two hundred and fifty a year
Actually, Mr. Bennet was not an absolute fool in marrying a lawyer's pretty daughter (lively and with the appearance of good nature that youth and health tend to suggest, whether it proves to be real...
View ArticleRe: Two hundred and fifty a year
Mrs Bennet had a dowry of 4,000 pounds. The additional 1,000 was supplied by Mr Bennet when making the marriage settlement for her. And "lawyers" were of 2 types -- barristers, the senior branch who...
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Could your story search be "Elizabeth and Darcy" from Republic of Pemberley? Just a thought.[www.pemberley.com]Kathy t
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