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Mar. 12th, 2024 01:35 pmI reblogged this post and added:
Moving my notes to a separate reblog to match the Fitzwilliam post:
- The Howards were inspired by the nameless duke hanging out with Lord and Lady Ravenshaw in Mansfield Park. Since I made Lord Ravenshaw the same person as the Fitzwilliam earl in P&P, I thought it’d be fun to come up with a social connection between the duke and the Ravenshaws without making him a blood relative of them. I’m imagining that the duke in MP is actually Carrington, after the "present" (in 1796) duke dies.
- I named them “Howard” after the name Austen whimsically invented as a girl: Henry Frederick Howard Fitzwilliam. I’ve always thought the name’s ties to so many of her heroes was intriguing.
- Most of the particulars of the Howards are my own creation, and some have (sort of) come up in previous fics; Lady Georgiana, Lady Auckland, the Carringtons, and Miss Howard are all mentioned in The Letters of Elizabeth Darcy (1796-1798), and Lady Auckland is mentioned in passing in First Impressions. Lady Auckland also appears in person in a semi-crackfic, The Natural Daughter of Somebody.
- Lady Georgiana’s Carteret descendants are relatives of the late Lord Dalrymple referenced in Persuasion (i.e., the man whose widow is Lady Dalrymple and whose daughter is Miss Carteret). The Darcys themselves would also be related, more distantly, as Lady Georgiana herself is a Carteret relation. *waves at board* iT’S ALL CONNECTED
- Kympton is the living that was “supposed” to go to Wickham (…after he had already exchanged it for money). Thomas Stanley is the guy (in this ’verse) who got it instead. If you’re familiar with Austen quasi-canon, you might be able to guess at a little of his future.
- The junior branch of the Darcys are quasi-canon; Caroline Bingley mentions at one point that Darcy has a great-uncle who was or is a judge and whose portrait hangs at Pemberley. For the purposes of this ’verse, I assume the judge is dead, but was much younger than his brother Alexander (Lady Georgiana’s husband/Darcy’s grandfather), and also married quite late in life himself, resulting in children who are roughly contemporaries of Darcy and Georgiana.
*cough* … I think that’s all.
Moving my notes to a separate reblog to match the Fitzwilliam post:
- The Howards were inspired by the nameless duke hanging out with Lord and Lady Ravenshaw in Mansfield Park. Since I made Lord Ravenshaw the same person as the Fitzwilliam earl in P&P, I thought it’d be fun to come up with a social connection between the duke and the Ravenshaws without making him a blood relative of them. I’m imagining that the duke in MP is actually Carrington, after the "present" (in 1796) duke dies.
- I named them “Howard” after the name Austen whimsically invented as a girl: Henry Frederick Howard Fitzwilliam. I’ve always thought the name’s ties to so many of her heroes was intriguing.
- Most of the particulars of the Howards are my own creation, and some have (sort of) come up in previous fics; Lady Georgiana, Lady Auckland, the Carringtons, and Miss Howard are all mentioned in The Letters of Elizabeth Darcy (1796-1798), and Lady Auckland is mentioned in passing in First Impressions. Lady Auckland also appears in person in a semi-crackfic, The Natural Daughter of Somebody.
- Lady Georgiana’s Carteret descendants are relatives of the late Lord Dalrymple referenced in Persuasion (i.e., the man whose widow is Lady Dalrymple and whose daughter is Miss Carteret). The Darcys themselves would also be related, more distantly, as Lady Georgiana herself is a Carteret relation. *waves at board* iT’S ALL CONNECTED
- Kympton is the living that was “supposed” to go to Wickham (…after he had already exchanged it for money). Thomas Stanley is the guy (in this ’verse) who got it instead. If you’re familiar with Austen quasi-canon, you might be able to guess at a little of his future.
- The junior branch of the Darcys are quasi-canon; Caroline Bingley mentions at one point that Darcy has a great-uncle who was or is a judge and whose portrait hangs at Pemberley. For the purposes of this ’verse, I assume the judge is dead, but was much younger than his brother Alexander (Lady Georgiana’s husband/Darcy’s grandfather), and also married quite late in life himself, resulting in children who are roughly contemporaries of Darcy and Georgiana.
*cough* … I think that’s all.
