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Date: 2014-03-23 11:00 am (UTC)
you just have to accept that snobbishness will be part of the landscape
Like being able to tell whether or not people are evil/15 year-old sex maniacs by their eye colour.

If Eleanor really does want Brat, she'd be better off just facing it out and ignoring what people say because I agree, people are going to be saying lots for a very long time.

When I read it in my teens, I was just pleased that Eleanor got the farm (even with the death duties). What if one of the twins had been a boy? I suppose the farm would be safe if it was Jane, but Ruth is Simon all over again. Now I think it's the inherited property that's the whole problem. Without There Have Always Been Ashbys at Latchetts, Bee could have kept her job and taken all the children off to live in a flat in London and no-one would have had to be self-sacrificing for the sake of the estate* or killed anyone else for it. And yes no plot, true.

*see also Antonia Forest
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