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More gallows humour in 74 Written by Stephanie (8/24/2011 9:16 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Letter 71: A joke that rubs me the wrong way, penned by Line

It seems that a hanging, whether as capital punishment, or suicide, recurred often enough in Jane Austen's more light-hearted treatment to be marked.

I do not suppose you like this mention better than the first that irritated you, but I am afraid I must thank you for pointing it out to me, or I might not have noticed such a plethora on one rather morbid topic in such a narrow collection.

Did Author Austen ever treated the subject frivolously in her fiction? I can not think of a single example right now!

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Letter 71: A joke that rubs me the wrong way Line (8/21/2011 12:45 p.m.)

More gallows humour in 74 Stephanie (8/24/2011 9:16 p.m.)
- Gallows humour. Rachel G (8/25/2011 7:29 p.m.)
  - In P&P there is a mention of flogging [Chapter 12] kathleen (elder) (8/25/2011 8:12 p.m.)
One reason for [Jane Austen] writing Stephanie (8/22/2011 10:51 a.m.)
- JA teases her nephews & nieces, directly AND kathleen (elder) (8/22/2011 3:20 p.m.)
Hanged Rachel G (8/21/2011 2:31 p.m.)
- Tom Jones Rachel G (8/22/2011 3:46 a.m.)

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