Right, good point about Lydia! She *is* that self-destructive flake who drives away people who could help by being... herself, basically.
Hehe Georgiana *is* the adorbz. But there is a certain amount of values dissonance involved. Although it ís pointed out that Georgiana was only 15, which even today isn't accepted (or even less, really; Lydia running off with Wickham is unacceptable because they eloped, but the fact that she's sixteen isn't considered as shocking as the fact that she eloped. These days it'd be the other way around), let alone that Wickham is ten years older!
... huh, LBD did add a sympathetic note to Lydia. Good thing too, really, otherwise the whole Wickham plot would kind of flop. NOT saying that nasty, brainless people deserve what Wickham did to Lydia, but it would add a kind of "well what did you expect? Ugh Lydia" to it. And poor Kitty. She's kind of like Mary in that she always plays second fiddle to her sisters. At least according to the book she got out and improved once her older sisters were married and she had their good examples! (She married a clerk in her uncle's law office, according to what Jane told one of her nieces/nephews, because Word of God existed even in the early 1800s.)
Death Comes To Pemberley is pretty good. It's fluff - basically published P&P fanfic - but it's a nice way to spend a few hours with some familiar characters.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 08:09 am (UTC)Hehe Georgiana *is* the adorbz. But there is a certain amount of values dissonance involved. Although it ís pointed out that Georgiana was only 15, which even today isn't accepted (or even less, really; Lydia running off with Wickham is unacceptable because they eloped, but the fact that she's sixteen isn't considered as shocking as the fact that she eloped. These days it'd be the other way around), let alone that Wickham is ten years older!
... huh, LBD did add a sympathetic note to Lydia. Good thing too, really, otherwise the whole Wickham plot would kind of flop. NOT saying that nasty, brainless people deserve what Wickham did to Lydia, but it would add a kind of "well what did you expect? Ugh Lydia" to it.
And poor Kitty. She's kind of like Mary in that she always plays second fiddle to her sisters. At least according to the book she got out and improved once her older sisters were married and she had their good examples! (She married a clerk in her uncle's law office, according to what Jane told one of her nieces/nephews, because Word of God existed even in the early 1800s.)
Death Comes To Pemberley is pretty good. It's fluff - basically published P&P fanfic - but it's a nice way to spend a few hours with some familiar characters.