The Other Austen

Guaranteed to Bring Out the Bitch In You

  • 9th May
    2012
  • 09

You know Mansfield Park…

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its a nice story and all. Two people who love each other end up together is always nice, but what some people fail to realize about the main couple is, THEY ARE FIRST COUSINS!

That is incest people.  I get it, those were the times and all, but come on, INCEST!

Its a lovely story, but yeah. I’ll skip this romantic tale.

yeah, but Edmund was Fanny’s first cousin. so like, you have your second cousins, and then your first cousins, and then your cousins!!

(Source: stars---thunderbird)

  1. thesixthbennet reblogged this from theotherausten
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  5. schmeeko reblogged this from stars---thunderbird and added:
    I hate this. A lot. So very much. Do you even realize the time that they’re in? This was beyond normal. It just...
  6. bellenomdeplume reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    It wasn’t seen as incest then. Brother and sister or parent and child was incest. That concept is only around today.
  7. redmagus77 reblogged this from scribblesatmidnight and added:
    This is why we should all move to Shelbyville. Damn Springfieldians…
  8. wittywallflower reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    Lol at people who won’t read a story because the social conventions of the setting/time frame don’t agree with their own...
  9. scribblesatmidnight reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    People who freak out about stuff like this in literature and history are hilarious. You really don’t share that much DNA...
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  11. silvestria reblogged this from theproblematicpetticoat and added:
    ^ This
  12. likethewater reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    More proof that there is a Mean Girls reference for every occasion.
  13. theproblematicpetticoat reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    Such taboos are largely cultural, anyway. In other contexts, incest included a widow(er) marrying their dead spouse’s...
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  15. irishyoga reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    Ahem “Downton Abbey” cough hack wheeze. But I still love both of them.
  16. conesoldstober reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    I don’t think it’s a case of people failing to realize that they’re first cousins but more the fact that people just...
  17. imagineagreatadventure reblogged this from theotherausten and added:
    It wasn’t considered weird to marry your cousin until the twentieth century - when they realized there could be genetic...
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  19. theotherausten reblogged this from stars---thunderbird and added:
    yeah, but Edmund was Fanny’s first cousin. so like, you have your second cousins, and then your first cousins, and then...
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