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⌈ Secret Post #5527 ⌋

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[meadowphoenix]

I have an unreasonable resentment toward P&P since I found out she sold the copyright and couldn't capitalize on its popularity as much.

But in addition to P&P having the history (I think it was her most popular work while she lived so you have a historical weight working against all her other work) it's emotionally weird for a lot of people to read things that clearly aren't finished, even if they're complete, and published 60 years after her earliest work.

And you know, there's a lot of straight up emotional child abuse which is less fun to read under the guise of scandal than you might think.

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Sorry, accidentally pressed a button on my phone that sent this too early!(and I almost did it again, but thank god for DW not letting you send comments that don’t have any words lmao!)

I didn’t know that about P&P, and that sucks for her! She might not have known it would get so big, but still. I think that reason for resenting it isn’t all that unreasonable actually, it makes sense to me.

I’m probably missing something, but I don’t get how it’s emotionally weird for me or anyone else to like works of hers with complicated publishing history like Lady Susan? They’re less put together than her more popular works, but she still delivers the same prose and writing quality that I adore in them.

That’s a completely fair reason to not enjoy Lady Susan though, the way Lady Susan treats Frederica is unpleasant to say the very least. I still enjoy the hell out of it in spite of how upsetting that abuse can get, and I think the scandal factor isn’t really a guise.