Re: ED, other PP and non-PP fanfics
By the way, I´ve read now through parts of your story and was very pleasently surprized to find so many great Darcy/Bingley friendship scenes. I cannot understand why the agent things, that the...
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That's actually a very snobbish attitude, part of the whole "genre fiction is not real literature" fallacy. One can read P&P a thousand times and still get nothing but a cute regency romance; one...
View ArticleRe: No offense intended to Trekkies, Potterheads and the like...
Someone who does not read well and who fails to grasp key elements of context, subtext and symbolism might be able "read P&P a thousand times and still get nothing but a cute regency romance."...
View ArticleRe: No offense intended to Trekkies, Potterheads and the like...
Someone who does not read well and who fails to grasp key elements of context, subtext and symbolism might be able "read P&P a thousand times and still get nothing but a cute regency romance."...
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View ArticleRe: No offense intended to Trekkies, Potterheads and the like...
Mari, have you done a lot of reading in other fandoms? As I said yesterday, I've been reading and writing mostly in scifi/fantasy fandoms for the last ten years, and I have to say, there's a lot of...
View ArticleI was 12 too!
Read between eps of the miniseries because I needed to know what happened!!And re sci fi/fantasy what those genres are actually saying about our world or trying to change about our world is pretty...
View ArticleHow wives address their husbands
A couple people have commented in the latest post of "Claims of Duty" to say they find it odd that Elizabeth would address her husband as Darcy rather than Mr. Darcy. Now I'm curious, as it really...
View ArticleRe: How wives address their husbands
I made a comment on this over in the other forum before I saw that you had started this. I think you're right on the money where period appropriateness is concerned.I have no time to write much more,...
View ArticleRe: How wives address their husbands
I would guess it is a highly individual thing - the Duchess of Devonshire, for example, called her husband 'Canis.' I can't recall what nickname she had.As for Darcy, he doesn't strike me as the...
View ArticleRe: How wives address their husbands
Personally, I think she would call him Fitzwilliam, but Darcy is not inappropriate. I would think it too formal of she called him Mr.Darcy in private.
View ArticleRe: How wives address their husbands
It was usual for the peers and friends/family of Lords to call them by their title (your example 'Winchester'), rather than Lord Winchester.As you said, friends might call men by their last name. Even...
View ArticleEarly apples
The size of the market is precisely what induces the agents of large publishing houses to reject material.I believe that many respondents in this thread are thinking too deeply into the subject. Large...
View ArticleThat's funny!
She called him "Canis"? I am still laughing at the moxie to call one's husband a dog in Latin! And of course at the time it would primarily be educated men who would understand this reference.
View ArticleCase by case, perhaps?
I imagine apart from the naming conventions required in public venues, that names and pet names used between friends, family, and spouses must have been fairly individualized.For instance, the real...
View Articlespeaking of courtesy titles...
Say the fictitious Lord Matlock is heir to the Marquis of Someplace because this other fictitious title passes through heirs to the body and Lord Matlock is grandson through an only-child daughter (or...
View ArticleRe: Case by case, perhaps?
Oh, that's too funny. My family has enough difficulty with my uncle, cousin, and cousin's kid all having the same name. I can't imagine nine in twelve generations. (The real difficulty for us was when...
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