I'd love to see an alternate universe where Maria Edgeworth's father died young, so we got Edgeworth being as caustic as Austen at her most savage ("To hear you talk so, Rosamond, one would think you had an argosy of lovers at sea, uninsured") without the need to off-set it with pages of sappy moralising.
While I do take the point about the wedding being more Jane Eyre than Persuasion (even the chime of Edwin/Edward), Austen is fabulous on the whole business of families being messed up, particularly in her later novels, which is spot on with the themes of the book.
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Date: 2014-11-30 09:30 am (UTC)While I do take the point about the wedding being more Jane Eyre than Persuasion (even the chime of Edwin/Edward), Austen is fabulous on the whole business of families being messed up, particularly in her later novels, which is spot on with the themes of the book.