Tumblr crosspost (28 December 2020)

[anghraine]

heckofabecca responded to this post:

can you explain? ><

I replied:

Annabella Milbanke responded to P&P by saying something to the effect of “the interest is very strong, especially for Mr Darcy.” She also later married Lord Byron and had a terrible marriage. Scholars (and others) occasionally suggest that she liked P&P/Darcy for the same reasons that she was attracted to Byron (though that itself is a whole complicated issue). I think doing that is super gross.