I vote wimp
I think he's a wimp and Jane deserved better (although her resolute naivety would drive me crazy, personall). However, I think Austen didn't intend any of her characters to be perfect, and she knew...
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"It was Darcy who was convinced that Jane was wrong for Bingley, and Darcy was willing to go some lengths to have his point."Yep, and letting someone else make that decision for him is what makes...
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Thanks, Amy, for your reply. I do understand. I did not realize the chapters posted here of other fan fiction were not from published works, but drafts. Makes sense.
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Mary, I'm one of the authors who goes on to publish [including non-Austen Regencies that go on the ANI board] and may I suggest that you post a couple of chapters on your blog site, and then post a...
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.... I don't think Jane minds that much. She's a motherly little body and having her husband as her eldest child isn't going to trouble her too much. I think that like many quiet people she's probably...
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Charles Bingley is not a man in love, not even mildy, never mind violently.If he were he would never just take the word of a friend, however much he admired him, as gospel on probably the most...
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In addition:Exactly what authority is Fitzwilliam Darcy on romance? He's twenty seven going on fifty nine years old and with no mentions of romantic association except what he sees in his dressing...
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Redson Wrote:------------------------------------------------------->>Now guess who makes each of these statements.>> 1."To yield readily -- easily -- to the persuasion> of a friend is...
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Agnes Beatrix Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Redson Wrote:> -------------------------------------------------->!" To the Regency mindset, however (or how I>...
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Hello All!I have been writing a late Victorian era story for the past year and have a few questions I can't seem to find answers for in the many sources I have been using. It seems that a lot had...
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Jim G.M Wrote:------------------------------------------------------->> But surely, there would be no pressure on anyone> by Bingley in his simply returning to Meryton,> just to see what...
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Money, I imagine is the key to it all. J.A's upper and middle-class world in Pride and Prejudice encompassed five girls and their mother whose ideas of work were lifting a heavy knife and fork and a...
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Agnes.You say Mrs Bennet didn't know what Jane's feelings were. Maybe not directly spoken by Jane, but she would surely have either drawn the situation in or sent Bingley scurrying for the hills. To...
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My opinion on Mrs. Bennet is that she does not hold her daughters’ feelings important. She doesn’t want Jane to marry Bingley because their characters are suited or because Jane loves him, but because...
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I doub't we're really that far apart in our interpretations. I also think Jane's Austen's lack of characters physical description is an invitation to use our own ideas in that area. Darcy isn't Colin...
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Harvey S. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> "It was Darcy who was convinced that Jane was> wrong for Bingley, and Darcy was willing to go> some lengths to have...
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Yes she would have a companion. In some ways the etiquette was even stricter than Regency, if more relaxed in others. Single men and women would travel together in a private compartment [not a train...
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Thank you Sarah! Perfect!So the trip to Scotland was an overnight trip at that time (1898) I take it? I read the Rhys Bowen books, the Her Royal Spyness mysteries, and Georgiana the heroine frequently...
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