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Michelle A
If only Jane Austen were around to explain some of the things she wrote, that we as 21st century readers, just don't get!
Ah, if only indeed Michelle.
Darcy's sister, Georgiana, without parents, had been sent away to presumably extend her education and learn things about social life a brother could not teach "in the manner of elegant females" of the period . Did he possibly think Lizzie had done the same and got her intelligence and manners via a governess and masters in somewhere like London and thus she had spent time away from Longbourn? He had not been at Rosings when Lizzie informed Lady Catherine to the contrary and that fact may have come out in conversation between him and his aunt, a fact he would find hard to believe. Was he clarifying that? I know there are many views and possibilities, but I still prefer the simple solution. Alas, we'll never know for sure. Half the enjoyment however, is in trying to decide whether we are seeing things in her characters as J.A meant us to, or are we following a Fitzgeral translation of Omar Khayam and seeing it our own way? Who really knows? (-:
"Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire!
Would not we shatter it to bits-and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!"
