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by breather 848 days ago
This also sort of raises a red flag for the author—short term relationships weren't really a thing in the world of Austen, just prospective long-term relationships and essentially affairs.
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And in real life - lots and lots of prostitution haha.

Victorian era reality vs literature was wildly different. [https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Kessler2014.pdf]