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Westgate Buildings Written by Line (9/16/2007 8:19 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Letter 29: We Plan Having a Steady Cook…, penned by JulieW

I haven't read "Persuasion" in a while, but weren't the Westgate Buildings where Anne's friend Mrs. Smith lived, and weren't they an address that Sir Walter sneered at? Of course, I know that JA wrote about real places, but this seems like an especially strong link between the author's real life and her fiction! Laura Place rings a bell too - did JA mention any of their other potential new addresses in her fiction?

About the "sedate, middle-aged man, who is to undertake the double office of husband to the [cook] and sweetheart to the [house-maid]": It struck me that JA definitely lived in pre-Victorian times - maybe I'm wrong, but I think this kind of joke would have been considered unacceptable in later decades, even in a private letter?

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Letter 29: We Plan Having a Steady Cook… JulieW (9/16/2007 7:51 a.m.)

Reminds me of Elizabeth Bennet Tracy W (9/16/2007 2:26 p.m.)
Westgate Buildings Line (9/16/2007 8:19 a.m.)
- To be honest JulieW (9/16/2007 12:08 p.m.)
- Laura Place, and Pultney street Reeba (9/16/2007 10:00 a.m.)
- Bath addresses... Mandy N (9/16/2007 9:16 a.m.)

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