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[quote=Anonymous]I think at one point, Jane Austen confided that Kitty married a parson and Mary married someone who worked for Uncle Phillips.

So those might have been realistic options for Elizabeth, or maybe a business contact of Mr. Gardiner.

I’m not sure Elizabeth would have made a proper parson’s wife.  She was too mischievous.  And clergymen, as portrayed in Austen’s novels, are either somewhat dull:  Edmund Bertram, Edward Farrars, or else insincere:  Mr. Collins, Mr. Elton.  Not to Lizzie’s liking.

Sometimes I wonder whether Elizabeth would have been better off marrying a rising industrialist in Mr. Gardiner’s circle...but at heart, she was a country girl who loved to go walking.  (And I wonder how/whether she would have reacted to industrial working conditions.  I guess Austen was not Dickens, so she never wrote that story.)

Perhaps in real life, Elizabeth would have found happiness with an appropriate member of the minor country gentry, like Charles Musgrove.  But someone who liked to read, as well as shoot.

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