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heckofabecca said:
i love them all
I replied:
thank you :)))
nellification said:
With great respect: wasn’t Fitzwilliam Darcy’s father named George? I don’t know that this is stated explicitly in canon, but he’s George Wickham’s godfather, and it was customary (I believe) to name a child after an important godparent. Also, there’s Georgiana: her aristocratic name is a combination of “George” and “Anne”!
I replied:
The previous Mr Darcy’s name is at no point stated in canon. His name could be George and both Wickham and Georgiana named for him, but it is equally possible that they’re named for different people. Godchildren were sometimes named for important godparents, but by no means always, and George was an immensely common name.
“Georgiana” is an independently existing name that was used repeatedly among the aristocracy of the time without any reference to George+Anne. For instance, the most famous Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire (who incidentally would have spent part of the year extremely close to Pemberley) was simply named for her mother, Margaret Georgiana. IIRC it is etymologically just a fancy elaboration of Georgia or Georgina (this isn’t uncommon for names ending in -ana or -iana).
TBH at least half the reason my senior Mr Darcy is not named George is because the fandom is so insistent that it must be that, even though it’s not canon. I’m a pretty contrary creature at the best of times and I’ve been corrected with fanon so many times that I get a kick out of ignoring it.
Tagged: #i don't mean to sound hostile but i'm just ... really not fond of austen fanon
heckofabecca said:i love them all
I replied:
thank you :)))
nellification said:
With great respect: wasn’t Fitzwilliam Darcy’s father named George? I don’t know that this is stated explicitly in canon, but he’s George Wickham’s godfather, and it was customary (I believe) to name a child after an important godparent. Also, there’s Georgiana: her aristocratic name is a combination of “George” and “Anne”!
I replied:
The previous Mr Darcy’s name is at no point stated in canon. His name could be George and both Wickham and Georgiana named for him, but it is equally possible that they’re named for different people. Godchildren were sometimes named for important godparents, but by no means always, and George was an immensely common name.
“Georgiana” is an independently existing name that was used repeatedly among the aristocracy of the time without any reference to George+Anne. For instance, the most famous Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire (who incidentally would have spent part of the year extremely close to Pemberley) was simply named for her mother, Margaret Georgiana. IIRC it is etymologically just a fancy elaboration of Georgia or Georgina (this isn’t uncommon for names ending in -ana or -iana).
TBH at least half the reason my senior Mr Darcy is not named George is because the fandom is so insistent that it must be that, even though it’s not canon. I’m a pretty contrary creature at the best of times and I’ve been corrected with fanon so many times that I get a kick out of ignoring it.
Tagged: #i don't mean to sound hostile but i'm just ... really not fond of austen fanon