Status Updates From Blended Bennets

Definitely needs editing!

Preachy Lizzy judging Old Mr. Darcy for no reason at all, Mr. Darcy is evidently horrified! >> “I do not believe that your father’s grief excuses him from doing his duty to his children, and still less if he loved those children. It argues a selfishness that I do not understand and cannot condone.”

Direct quote by Thomas Bennet to his niece Lydia (aged 14) >>> You are one stupid girl if that is what you think. I am your guardian. I can beat you, I can starve you, I can make you live in a cottage all by yourself with no one to tend you. I can make your life as miserable as you have made everyone else’s. And there is not one thing you can do to stop me,” he said grimly.

I hate stories where the author delights in chastising characters, punishing, putting them “in their place”, particularly women characters, and worse when the author lets free with sadistic tendencies to lock up characters, restrict their food, or even physical punishment. Austen never did that, her female characters were not dealt like this…