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It’s always so cringe for me to read stories where authors unleash their own misogyny and sadism on their characters. We have read countless stories where Caroline or Lady Catherine are severely punished, humiliated, phsysically restrained or even harmed (to the chilling glee of the writer!)

This story brings something new = punishment & humiliation for young Darcy, sentencing him to humbling manual work…

— Jun 29, 2025 08:41AM

Her Grace Revisited: A Pride & Prejudice Vagary

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Lit Reader is 98% done

As we already knew, this author did poor research on nobility titles, usage, styles, or inheritance — she seems to belive that ascendance into an hereditary title works just the same as the investiture of honours (Knighthood, for ex), problem is THEY DON’T!

Also, widowed Duchess loses all courtesy titles if she remarries, she would not be Dowager unless (unmarried), her son married and got himself a new Duchess

— Jul 01, 2025 07:43AM

Lit Reader is 90% done

Widowed Duchess Lizzy hires bachelor Darcy Jr (his father still lives and he is not Master of Pemberly) as male nanny for her children, and/or a live-in position as steward’s substitute and companion — totally mindblowing how anyone could think this makes sense !

— Jun 30, 2025 08:41PM

Lit Reader is 65% done

This story is a festival of Equality !!! A Duke employs a random chambermaid and upgrades her as young lady’s companion, then goes on to dower her with a small fortune, and ends up sponsoring her wedding to a parson, and finally welcomes her as a family friend for weekly invitations into his home… super believable (not)!

This is just one example of how badly this story fails to congeal

— Jun 29, 2025 09:00PM

Lit Reader is 52% done

Poor use of styles of address is a cheap mistake, it shows the author is writing details above their comfort zone >> Lady [fist name] means she is the daughter of a Duke/Marquess/Earl. The wife of a Duke should be styled Lady + Title, Lady Hertfordshire, for example

— Jun 29, 2025 10:28AM

Lit Reader is 40% done

Another pet peeve of mine is when these “historical” variations impose American Middle Class values on supposed Regency characters; for example, when an elderly couple decides to move to The Dower House and leave the main house/manor/estate free for the “young geeneration” to reign over, LOL!

No way in H*ll would a Mr. Darcy or other master “retire” into a dower house & check out! Just NO!

— Jun 28, 2025 07:07PM

Lit Reader is 5% done

This carcrash was too much for me to pass up!

Having read the previous/original installment, my curiosity was piqued

— Jun 28, 2025 09:07AM

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message 1: by J.C. (new)

Jun 29, 2025 09:35AM

I've read many of this author's stories (including the original Her Grace), and I've decided to not read another. One of the main themes I see in her books is the humiliation of Darcy. Again and again, in story after story, he is punished and humiliated. I've come to suspect that the author hates Darcy.

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message 2: by Lit (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jun 29, 2025 10:32AM

@J.C this story also goes strong in an effort to humiliated and punish Jane (!!!), she is made into a mean, witless creature, and it hammers down on her beauty being irrelevant (projecting maybe?). She is mocked, isolated, punished, locked up (yes!), and then sent to a metaphorical Gulag, to later she can “repent” and be kindly forgiven for a one-dimensional Lizzy who is super beautiful/talented/intelligent/witty, and now ALSO a Duchess [clap, clap, clap]

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message 3: by J.C. (new)

Jun 29, 2025 10:37AM

Yikes. I’m definitely abandoning this author. Enough is enough.

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message 4: by Lit (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jun 29, 2025 10:45AM

@J.C I am committed to this carcrash !!!

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message 5: by J.C. (new)

Jun 29, 2025 11:08AM

LOL. I commend you for your courage.