Lit Reader’s Reviews > A Summer to Remember: A Pride & Prejudice Variation > Status Update

Cnel Fitzwilliam’s brother has died only weeks ago, and instead of keeping mourning, he is planning to attend an assembly in Lambton and dancing rhe evening away !

I was already shocked that the Darcys of Pemberley were not going into half mourning for their Uncle’s heir (their blood cousin!). I would have expected Darcy to wear a black armband and Georgiana to darken her gowns…

Halfway into the story and there are two main mysteries remaining >> What horrible thing happened to Elizabeth, or what did she witness 5 years ago at Pemberley? And what happened to Georgiana before Elizabeth’s present visit, to make her health & spirits deteriorate (lack of sleep, nightmares?, depression, refusing to eat)

The time leaps are awkward, 3 months into E’s visit and hardly any progress in the plot

Cnel Fitzwilliam calls 20-year-old Elizabeth “a woman”, Lizzy calls 15-year-old Georgiana “this woman”, the two LADIES (girls) are called “women” by Darcy and his cousin — it sounds crass.

It’s absolutely tone deaf to Austen and to Regency speech/mindset !! Social niceties exist(ed) for a reason…

I often see a misuse of the words “woman” or “female” in JAFF/Austen variations. It’s used carelessly, without furthet meaning, maybe as authors would use them today to describe any woman…

But in Regency England “woman” alone was too generic and even more coarse. Language demanded more specific terms denoting age/class/education/status >> lady (preferable for Gentry), maiden, lass, for ex.