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I need to update the FAQ... Written by Cheryl (9/20/2005 7:54 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, I agree, penned by Margaret 7

...in regards to Mrs. Clay. JulieW has lately done a good deal of research on divorce in the regency, particularly for the last Mansfield Park GR and more since then.

It was exorbitantly expensive to get a divorce, and they had to be granted - literally - by an act of Parliament. So it happened very rarely, and then mainly by the aristocracy who could afford to do so.

It is almost impossible to imagine that Mrs Clay is a divorced woman, and I believe that JA didn't come right out and say that because her readers would have taken it for granted.

It is far more likely that Mrs Clay's marriage was called "unprosperous" because her husband didn't leave her enough money so that she could live independently after his death. Else why would she have come home to live with her parents?

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Hello, sailor! Cheryl (9/19/2005 11:47 p.m.)

Indeed! Rae (9/20/2005 6:22 a.m.)
- And you do wonder Rebecca Mog (9/20/2005 7:06 a.m.)
  - I agree Margaret 7 (9/20/2005 7:35 p.m.)
    - I need to update the FAQ... Cheryl (9/20/2005 7:54 p.m.)
      - She needed to get out of town?.....nfm Margaret 7 (9/20/2005 9:00 p.m.)
      - Mrs. Clay sympathizer here   Line (9/20/2005 11:33 p.m.)
        
        Meritocrat   JoAnn Elizabeth (9/21/2005 8:50 a.m.)
        
        Another Mrs Clay sympathizer here   Joan Ellen (9/21/2005 2:52 p.m.)
        
        Can it be   Ann2 (9/21/2005 5:23 p.m.)
        
        Very possibly   Joan Ellen (9/22/2005 1:58 p.m.)
I was reading this last night and it Merry T. (9/20/2005 9:03 a.m.)
LoL! Delories (9/20/2005 11:55 a.m.)
Perhaps... Art (9/20/2005 12:37 p.m.)
- Unprosperous marriage. Lia (9/20/2005 1:43 p.m.)
  - On the other hand... Line (9/20/2005 5:53 p.m.)
    - Perhaps... Lia (9/20/2005 7:23 p.m.)
      - Mrs Clay: connundrum Rebecca Mog (9/21/2005 6:01 a.m.)
    - But Jane Austen did clarify this Siobhan (9/22/2005 1:02 p.m.)
      - You are so right! Joan Ellen (9/22/2005 1:54 p.m.)
      - Please point it out when the time comes! :-) (nfm) Line (9/22/2005 6:25 p.m.)
      - I remember your... Reeba (9/22/2005 6:50 p.m.)
The Navy Golda (9/20/2005 1:32 p.m.)

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