Does anybody have any questions, comments, etc? *AMA*

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

While I feel that a lot of loose ends got tied up in the final few episodes, I daresay readers may still have a few questions about how certain things turned out? Or indeed about things that happened in existing text.

With a proviso that in some cases there may be [spoilers] involved with respect to snippets in process or projected.

Comments

[m_nivalis]

How did Mr T find out that the mathematically inclined governess he corresponded with was actually Miss G? Did she tell him or did he figure it out himself?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

He is brought to one of Clorinda's soirees while Miss G- is taking banque at the card table: and he recognises her by her style of play: https://the-comfortable-courtesan.dreamwidth.org/6335.html

[adeliej]

Thank you again for all this! It's absolutely delightful to read :)

[aedifica]

Oh, I was wondering if she and the T-s ever became a triangle. I'm glad Mr C- who had such feelings for dear Mrs T- wasn't left out in the cold. (And I like their Schrödinger's arrangement.)

[aedifica]

Does the erstwhile Lady N- grow to enjoy her conjugal duties? I hope she does, yet I'm concerned what a pregnancy would do to her in her invalid state. (Does Clorinda teach her about sponges? It seems very improper, and yet...)

I also wonder how Frau P- avoids increase with Mr K-.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Hester and Sir C- F- indeed work things out - his summer in Brighton with Clorinda provided him with quite a lot of ideas for marital felicity that would not involve penetrative sex.

I envisage a somewhat awkward conversation between Sebastian and his father on the subject of baudruches.

[aedifica]

Thank you!

[aedifica]

Oh, the book of "female philosophy" that Clorinda found so prepossessing--did you have a particular book in mind?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

[T]he author was the late wife of Mr Godwin and fatally bore him a daughter, that of recent years elopt with the poet Shelley.
I.e., it's Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

[aedifica]

Oh! You know, I think I noticed that the first time through, but I'm rereading now and didn't notice it this time around. Thank you!

[violsva]

I envisage a somewhat awkward conversation between Sebastian and his father on the subject of baudruches.

Ha! OMG, excellent!

[violsva]

Much belated, but I just wondered: does Clorinda's household know about her novel-writing?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Hard to miss Clorinda's ink-spattered scribbling - the parcels of galley-proofs from her publishers - and the ever increasing shelves of elegantly bound volumes of the works of A Lady Anonyma! Plus, the very vivid scenes of pugilistick combat in certain tales, praised by criticks ('surely the author cannot be a woman!') owed a good deal to conversations with Hector. (The dueling scenes research, of course, was undertaken with Milord.)