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On Nov 21, 2024, at 7:24?PM, Nancy Mayer via groups.io <regencyresearcher@...> wrote:

?It is suggested that Julia's marriage wasn't for love but to escape the
ruin of her sister's divorce. The family wasn't ranked high enough
socially to be able to withstand the scandal. Julia would have been the one
left on the shelf. So, she married someone who would have her. he might
well have loved her.
Fanny and Edmund married for love, on Fanny's part. Edmund held her in
affection and came to love her.
Austen is very ambiguous about the Reason Mrs. Norris married Mr. Norris.
It has been suggested that she wanted Sir Thomas and all he stood for and
married his rector to be close by. I think even before Norris died, she
was taking over the running of the house. When Sir Thomas first married,
he took his wife to Town every Spring for the session of Parliament we
generally call the season. Then when she started staying home, Mrs. Norris
continued to run the house-- or interfere in the running of it.
Nancy

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 7:04?PM Tamar Lindsay via groups.io <dicconf=
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IMansfield Pafk is not titled after a main character (like Emma) nor a
character trait (P+P, S+S). It is named after a place (like Northanger
Abbey). It would be possible to consider MP as a study of the t hree
estates: metaphorically man's field but in civilization, a park, not a
forest. Even the forest seen is artificial. It's a story of three sisters
whose marriages reflect three levels of society - the one who ran off and
married down for love (the seaman), and seems content, the one who married
up (we don't know for certain that it was for money and property but that
seems likely), and the one who married Propriety (the churchman). The
nominal heroine and her two cousins are another set of three - one runs off
to marry for love, one marries for money and then tries for love, and Fanny
who is all propriety and marries the churchman.