tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post8094333794699619330..comments2024-03-29T02:57:53.320-04:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: The room in which the ladies sat was backwards" : A Room of Charlotte’s OwnArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-55094013986807018322017-01-30T18:08:35.355-05:002017-01-30T18:08:35.355-05:00Jane expresses disgust about Collins on at least t...Jane expresses disgust about Collins on at least two or three occasions on Charlotte's behalf. Charlotte merely says that she's not romantic about marriage. Charlotte later puts Jane's mind at slightly greater ease by explaining all the ways that she is in control of her marital situation.<br /><br />What woman reader can deny that the mind goes directly to the idea of the bride submitting to having her vagina penetrated by the groom's penis whenever thoughts of the wedding night are conjured? The reaction of disgust is automatic! How detached those women readers must be that claim a reaction of disgust is absent simply because it's not spelled out!<br /><br />I think you may be on to something. Charlotte could be "backward" and just as practical about that inconvenient fact as she is about having to have sex with a man she is not attracted to.SmartSexyJanenoreply@blogger.com