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StayCurious
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#200PnPcovers @CrowCAH @mabell When I think of a woman in #hysterics I think of Mrs.Bennet, and the fact that Mr.Bennet must roll his eyes #hundreds of times a day…

CrowCAH I like your double entry!!! 😉 2y
mabell Nice job! 👏👏👏 2y
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CrowCAH
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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#200PnPCovers #Hundreds

That‘s some expensive chimney piece at Rosings!

I tried taking a photo of the collection, but 200 books just don‘t in one square frame! Lol

mabell Very pricey! 2y
CrowCAH @mabell even I think by todays money! 2y
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mabell
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“The marriages of minors (people under 21) who wed without their parents‘ consent are not legal, even with a special licence. But Hardwicke‘s Act does not apply to Scotland: there it is legal for people as young as 16 to marry without parental consent.

The village of Gretna Green lies temptingly just over the Scottish border, and it is the first destination of choice for #hundreds of runaway marriages.”

#200PnPcovers

CrowCAH I can‘t even imagine being married so young! Times are different. 2y
mabell @CrowCAH You had to grow up quicker then! 2y
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rubyslippersreads
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The 200th Anniversary edition of one of my favorite Austens (although I know not everyone likes Emma 😄). #hundreds (200) #200PnPcovers

Centique Wow that‘s a beautiful cover! 2y
mabell Great choice! (And not only because I love Emma 😉) 2y
CrowCAH Yeah I‘m not sure where I rank Emma, but it‘s not my top two of Austen‘s. 2y
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LeahBergen
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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mabell Nice!! This is a tough one! 2y
LeahBergen @mabell It is! 😆 2y
CrowCAH That was some comprehensive study she did to come up with that stat! 2y
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Librarybelle
Untitled | Unknown
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While not a post about a specific book per se, today‘s prompt of #Hundreds had me look at how many books I have cataloged under the Jane Austen tag in LibraryThing. Currently, 112, and I know I still have books to catalog in LibraryThing, so there are more to add!

It‘s a truth universally acknowledged that if a book even has a dim connection to Jane Austen, I‘ll read it. Maybe not the very bad fan fiction, but you never know! #200PnPCovers

DivineDiana Impressive! ❤️ 2y
mabell I love this! Perfect! 😍❤️ 2y
CrowCAH Nice! Yes, there are many adaptations!!! 2y
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TheAromaofBooks
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I really struggled with the #hundreds prompt for #200PnPcovers and landed on this one because it says in the blurb that she has to go “200 miles away to live“ and decided that was good enough for me 😂 As with most of these variations, this one was a mixed bag. Here, the story starts much earlier than the original. Mr. B. dies when E is 15, and just before his death, writes to his old friend George Darcy and asks him to take E as his ward. The ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) problem is that what the author really wanted to was to make D & E get married, so she had to make E old enough for that to happen but young enough to make E running away from home to avoid being sent to Pemberley realistic... and she kind of failed, because E just comes through as a spoiled little child. As the story progresses, though, things get better as E becomes a much more likable character. Of course, another weakness in the ⬇ 2y
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) way this story is set up is that the age difference is kind of creepy, which the author solves by shipping D off here and there and everywhere for several years while E lives at Pemberley. The second half of the book, however, is really good. D comes home and he and E have to learn to live together as husband and wife. Their love story is sweet and fun. I only wish that second had been much longer and the beginning part much shorter! 2y
mabell Clever use of 200! 2y
CrowCAH Interesting. Yeah, even for my novel I‘m writing the age difference is a concern that I‘m working on resolving! 2y
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