Tumblr crosspost (8 December 2020)

[anghraine]

Mr Bennet: my brother-in-law probably paid at least ten thousand pounds to arrange my daughter’s marriage. :(

Fandom: Is this poverty?

Tagged: #am i still on this? yES #people go through such acrobatics to make the gardiner-bennets out to be facing down a desperate future and... lol #but it's like—austen was persistently and deeply concerned with the vicissitudes of female dependence on their relatives #you don't have to make that out to be a scenario where they were ever going to go hungry or become governesses or whatever #to be a real concern and a characteristic one! #ajkfdfjkdaf