Hi Joan. In these tales I have never tried to make Charlotte anything less than practical and sensible, Jane Austen made both characters as they were and Mr Collins was not a sensible man. Neither was Charlotte a model for women, but more a product of an era where women's options, particularly the plain, were somewhat limited by their husband's status and she made concessions for security sake including thinking for two. I have tried to make Charlotte care about Mr Collins being ridiculed by others yet maintaining her own common sense attitude to his nonesense. These fanciful situations don't impinge on canon in any way bacause they all take place in and around Hunsford. One day, on the demise of Mr Bennet, Mr Collins would have to decide to stay in the Rosings district and continue and be a country parson, or move to Hertfordshire and be an estate-owning gentleman. The latter gives far more cause for concern then the former.....(-:
