Lit Reader’s Reviews > Lady Elizabeth’s Unequal Marriage: A Pride and Prejudice variation > Status Update

The lack of historical social awareness is shocking and worrisome >> Georgiana is a teenaged maid for Lady Matlock, but she is also like a ward of sorts who sleeps in servant quarters and does maid chores. But she is also ward & adoptive daughter of the Matlock steward -Mr. Wickham-, which means that there is literally zero reason for her to be a maid for anyone (worse now since Mr Darcy is master of Longbourn) !!

Bingley was already renting Longbourn when Darcy arrived in Meryton as Netherfield’s new steward. About 2 months later (max) Bingley is being evicted and thinks to purchase a different properry nearby…

Why would Darcy offer to show him this random property, claiming he “knows it well”, and start explaining how well maintained the old owner kept it, as if he knew the man???

The basis of this scandal is skewed; the story supposes finding Wickham would absolve Elizabeth from scandal, but that’s not true, finding the culprit of an assault on a Lady would only further the lewd gossip and dishonour of the Lady.

A period-accurate plot would support an argument for hushing the episode down through strong denial. Any modern idea of “justice” is naive projection…

If Darcy is supposed to be the new steward, WHY is he directing footmen, coordinating with house staff, advising maids about comportment??

There was supposed to be a distinct boundary between household staff, indoor servants, and other managerial positions such as a Lord’s secretary, land stewards: tenant supervisors or groundskeepers.

Wickham is supposed to me a Rector, and yet he is bored with his position and claims to want to pursue the law (what????) or even join the militia — this makes absolute no sense, it’s inrealistic, illogical, financially impossible !

Editorial errors; a scene is labeled as set at Longbourn when it clearly happens at Netherfield. Some gramatical mistakes too, I ususally just skip over those, but they add up!

The author seems confused about the issue of titles, property and inheritance. If Mr. Bennet got an Earldom for war heroics, he CANNOT have a distant cousin as his heir, only direct descendants. Mr. Collins can’t be in line for a recently created title.

If Mr. Collins is still Longbourn’s heir, the property COULD NOT be sold to Bingley, it’s one or the other here !

Darcy is a steward’s apprentice and teenage Georgiana is being trained as a ladies’ maid — problem is she is also supposed to have received education and plays the piano (!!!). Those two things are not compatible, she was either raised as a ward and maybe she could become a governess (like Jane Fairfax), or she is a literal servant and playing the piano would be off limits to her in that capacity.