Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.

[victoriansuggestion]

A suggestion

Please stop sending in submissions from novels that are not Victorian. We as respectable citizens in the year of our Lord 18— may certainly respect works written in the early 19th century, but they are decidedly not of our era; the fabric of our society has since changed utterly and irrevocably; and besides, we have surely moved on from such tawdry romanticism as all of that. Ever your humble servant, etc.

-Management

[victoriansuggestion]

P.S.: note that this applies to historical facts as well.

[regency-suggestion]

I believe I may be of some assistance to you in your present difficulty.

[regency-suggestion]

do anything rather than marry without affection

[regency-suggestion]

sprain your ankle

[regency-suggestion]

receive an astonishing letter from a gentleman

[regency-suggestion]

catch a violent cold

[regency-suggestion]

redecorate your ballroom in the French style

[regency-suggestion]

have an inappropriately-close relationship with your half-sister

[regency-suggestion]

suspect an acquaintance of being a murderer (and possibly a vampire)

[regency-suggestion]

shave part of the top of your head and apply brown paper dipped in oil to the bald patch in order to treat a cough

[regency-suggestion]

immediately and utterly believe the slightly-incredible oversharing of a new acquaintance because the story they relate allows you to confirm your initial dislike of a person who once slighted you on a petty level

[regency-suggestion]

never love by halves

[regency-suggestion]

have fine eyes

[regency-suggestion]

allow your friend to persuade you to reject your lover

[regency-suggestion]

lose your inheritance on a hand of cards

[regency-suggestion]

wear breeches so fashionably tight as to incite utter scandal

[regency-suggestion]

wear muslin so fashionably sheer as to incite utter scandal

[regency-suggestion]

marry a ridiculous man for the sake of independence