![]() We all remember the scandalous elopements of Whickham and Lydia in P&P or of Henry Crawford and married Maria Rushworth in Mansfield Park. She would tell about them in her major novels too, of course. Peculiar is Jane Austen’s gleeful narrative employment of scandalous actions like seduction, elopement and divorce. ![]() It contains some amusing bits, a number of separate sub-plots and supporting characters. Lesley Castle was probably written in early 1792 (when Jane was 16). ![]()
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