Why Georgiana Darcy is not Lydia Bennet

[reposted from wordpress]

Awhile ago, I got enmeshed in a rather infuriating Georgiana discussion, and while I had no interest in continuing to beat my head against a brick wall, I’ve heard the comparison so often, in so many places, without the slightest trace of irony – ever – that I decided this deserves its own bit of space.

Austen all but whacks us over the head with the parallels between the two girls.

 

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If I wrote Kittyfic

. . . it would be like this:

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