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anghraineAlso in response to this post, cosmonauthill said:
Is it also possible that the viscount was just enough older that he was already paired off to, if they’re new-but-rich, the daughter of an old-but-poor family, or vice versa? I’ve seen it in a few fics that he’s married to the daughter of a Notable Family and it does make sense, I think
I replied:
Possible? Sure.
Also, by that time, arranged marriages between young children were pretty odd—imo it’s one of the things that’s meant to make Lady Catherine ridiculous and old-fashioned. So it’s possible that her brother wouldn’t have been up for it, or he’s enough like her to have already tried the same thing with someone else, or any number of reasons that an Anne/viscount match wouldn’t have turned out.
But I think that if Lady Catherine had ever considered the viscount a viable option, she’d be less obsessed with Anne/Darcy in particular. Anne could have made a good match already, given her birth, connections, and vast wealth (unusually so even for aristocratic women), but Lady Catherine seems set on her marrying Darcy specifically, from the moment of his birth.
Is it also possible that the viscount was just enough older that he was already paired off to, if they’re new-but-rich, the daughter of an old-but-poor family, or vice versa? I’ve seen it in a few fics that he’s married to the daughter of a Notable Family and it does make sense, I think
I replied:
Possible? Sure.
Also, by that time, arranged marriages between young children were pretty odd—imo it’s one of the things that’s meant to make Lady Catherine ridiculous and old-fashioned. So it’s possible that her brother wouldn’t have been up for it, or he’s enough like her to have already tried the same thing with someone else, or any number of reasons that an Anne/viscount match wouldn’t have turned out.
But I think that if Lady Catherine had ever considered the viscount a viable option, she’d be less obsessed with Anne/Darcy in particular. Anne could have made a good match already, given her birth, connections, and vast wealth (unusually so even for aristocratic women), but Lady Catherine seems set on her marrying Darcy specifically, from the moment of his birth.