Pride and Prejudice and Dragons

[goljerp]

I am reading Pride and Prejudice again. But this time, I'm doing so immediately after reading Tooth and Claw. And I must say, PaP makes a lot more sense than it did before. I mean, what exactly was so horrible about what Lydia and Wickham did? Obviously what happened is Lydia rubbed up against Wickham, thereby blushing, but without the intention

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[xiphias]

As You Know, Bob, that is among the basic reasons

[goljerp]

Yes, indeed -- I believe it was Thomas Hardy's novels, to be specific -- which were published about 50 years before P&P.

[xiphias]

Anthony Trollope's BARCHESTER novels, actually. The character of the parson is directly lifted.