Re: JA, Lefroy and her novels

I agree. I mean, everyone's writing is influenced in some way by their lives, but that doesn't mean that there has to be a direct correspondence of any sort. The different theories put forth here just show that there is no clear counterpart to JA's real life disappointed romance. He's Willoughby, Darcy and Wentworth? Perhaps bits of him and that experience is in all of them, but that doesn't mean that any of them are actually based on him.