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Love your posts! You might've answered something like this before but what do you think each Austen main couple's fights/disagreements would be like? (before you say it: yes Anne/Wentworth simply don't fight but other than them)

Anne and Wentworth absolutely argue sensibly in the security of knowing nothing can truly drive them apart and they love it and each other even when they hold different views.

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Hi not to be weird but I follow you on twitter and I remember a while ago you said something like “Wentworth can cut through a lot of hypocrisy and bullshit because he and his comrades are literally risking their lives for Britain’s interests in wartime so I wouldn’t be surprised that he has a more profound grasp of faith and moral responsibility” in a thread about prayer and spirituality in Austen and I think about all the time, it’s so beautifully put

I have no memory of saying so and am gone from Twitter these days but thanks so much! :) Wentworth is a real one.

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Do you prefer the raw feel of p&p 2005 or the polished one of p&p 1995? Perhaps a mix of both? I think I do.

Best P&P for me will always be Wishbone's Furst Impressions.

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How do you deal with finding out that actors who appeared in a film you like are trash? I'm saddened that both leads in the Joe Wright P&P are helping enrich SHE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED. Even though it almost ruins the whole experience, I don't want to give up P&P.

I suppose "don't support their current/future projects," is a common response I see to qualms over handling the work of living creatives who we find to have abhorrent ethical stances. And always bear in mind that we cannot know the inner workings of celebrities' minds, so best not to put anyone on a pedestal as an incorruptible role model.

It's okay to feel sad/disappointed, but try not to beat yourself up for appreciating a beautifully-rendered story. In the end, filmmaking is very collaborative, so "lead roles" notwithstanding, their individual contribution remains only a piece of the whole.

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I just wanted to say that I’ve been slowly reading all the Jane Austen novels over the last five years and every time I finish one I go through all yours posts in the novel’s tag and have a blast every time!!

I just finished reading Northanger Abbey and it was great and I wish I read it sooner!!

If you have time, I was also wondering if you had thoughts on NA adaptations/which one would you recommend??

The Felicity Jones adaptation is super-cute and fun!

The 1980s one has rock guitar riffs and blue eyeshadow and is ALSO very fun and extremely unserious.

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Hey! I'm writing a book based on p & p and elizabeth is a trans woman. obviously she would choose a name for herself but i have no idea of the meaning the name should have. she's filipino in this book so technically it would be in spanish, and i have found plenty of cute names, but i want one that fits her.

so, what meaning would you associate with a certain name? for example, would you say that a name that means "intelligent" would fit elizabeth more than one that means, to say, reflexive or beautiful? i hope it's not too weird of an ask.

If I'm in Lizzie's own head, picking a name for her own self, I think she wouldn't go for something as outright complimentary as intelligent (she can be teasingly self-deprecating)...so maybe something to do with her love of laughter/sense of humour?

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In regency times when someone would convalesce at someone else's house or at an inn, especially if that included them being unconscious for some amount of time....how did they handle that person's bladder and bowel stuff? Was that just considered a normal part of care from the woman of the house and her servants, like were they taught linen changes the way nurses are today? Or were they all left to just figure it out once it happened do you think?

The thing with being unconscious for a long time is...you're not really going to be eating and drinking much. Like they might wet your lips to try to hydrate you, but they won't risk you choking on anything more, and don't have ways of giving nutrition by other means that we have today, so normal bowel and bladder function would cease pretty rapidly, and at that point you've got bigger problems than what happens if you wet the bed, like you're gonna be dead soon.

Housekeepers and servants would definitely have a handle on changing bedlinens and maybe absorbent padding for invalids with bowel-control issues, (or say for people who have given birth/having post-partum bleeding or other uterine discharge issues while bedridden,) but they'd probably have some kind of bedpans or focus on getting someone up and moving enough to at least get onto a chamber pot ASAP.

I'll be honest, I work in healthcare and when it comes to incontinence, if you're not keeping someone clean and dry and repositioned while they're also bedridden, you're very quickly going to get bedsores, and if THOSE aren't kept clean, you're going to get an infection, and again, in the Regency era, you're very soon not going to have to worry about long-term incontinence in a bed.

Back then, if you largely stop moving/pooping/drinking on your own, you're going to be very dead very soon.

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Thoughts on Cynthia Kirkpatrick of Wives & Daughters and Mary Crawford as friends or a couple?

Poor Femme, Rich Femme. I could get on board with that. Could be extremely wholesome Cinderella story or extremely unhealthy toxic financial domination/coercion, or anywhere in-between, depends how one plays it.