Tumblr crosspost (14 June 2020)
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anghraineThis has nothing to do with the last post per se, but one of my favourite things about imagining the characters of different Austen novels encountering each other is taking account of when the different books were written rather than making them immediate contemporaries. It’s not better, it’s just super entertaining to me personally.
Like, people talk about what, say, Elizabeth would think of Emma—but Elizabeth was invented in 1796 and Emma in 1814. How does Emma come across to a nearly forty-year-old Elizabeth Darcy? 1815 sees the events of Persuasion resolved in Bath. If the Tilneys are also in Bath, what would Catherine (created in 1798), think of Anne Elliot, some seven years her junior? Does Marianne Dashwood (who first emerged around 1795), sympathize with Fanny Price (created ~1813)?
I don’t know, but it’s fun to consider!
#i'm sorry but thirty-nine-year-old elizabeth + emma is HILARIOUS to me #brb making a jane austen master timeline
Like, people talk about what, say, Elizabeth would think of Emma—but Elizabeth was invented in 1796 and Emma in 1814. How does Emma come across to a nearly forty-year-old Elizabeth Darcy? 1815 sees the events of Persuasion resolved in Bath. If the Tilneys are also in Bath, what would Catherine (created in 1798), think of Anne Elliot, some seven years her junior? Does Marianne Dashwood (who first emerged around 1795), sympathize with Fanny Price (created ~1813)?
I don’t know, but it’s fun to consider!
#i'm sorry but thirty-nine-year-old elizabeth + emma is HILARIOUS to me #brb making a jane austen master timeline