"Bags me be the one who fell in love wth Hitler and shot herself."

[intrepid--fox.livejournal.com]

I've been reading the Mitford sisters' letters recently and was struck by how easily - but how weirdly - Peter's Room could have featured Mitfords rather than Brontës,with Ginty fancying herself as one of the more glamorous sisters, and even Peter being vaguely aware of who they were ("for after all, it's not easy to achieve complete ignorance of the Mitford sisters" or words to that effect).  It would have made for a very different story, but one with lots of strangely similar stuff about family loyalties vs poltical convictions.

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[promethea100.livejournal.com]

What a terrific idea! I think Ginty would want to be Jessica and elope romantically to war with Esmond/Patrick. But then he'd actually want to be someone based on Unity and she'd think, oh well, at least I can do the anguished sister torn between loyalty and principle bit. Oh, and you've even got a scene for him of someone shooting themselves, too. Nicola could be Nancy and have the unrequited love for the Frenchman, until she gets bored with it. And Karen comes in and says all that imaginary language and feuding, what a waste of intelligence, and Ann says she likes Debo best because of the gardens ...

[richenda.livejournal.com]

Giggling wildly at the idea of Patrick as Esmond!
Even funnier as Nancy's version of his character, falling for ?Lavemder?