mamadeb

The problem is that there just aren't any characters in that book who come across to me as having any chemistry with each other, or even being worthwhile for each other. Edmund and Fanny are the best of a bad lot of choices. Both Crawfords are slime, and everyone else is a close relative. I've toyed with the idea of rewriting it so that Fanny marries (and helps yank into line) Edmund's older brother, but that's just as incestuous, if less boring. And there's *nobody* else for Edmund to marry except the vile Crawford creature.

Maybe we can import Kitty Bennet, who allegedly did grow up to marry a clergyman of unspecified name?