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WillowTheWhisp · 06-09-2005, 07:39

Sounds a bit like the image of a dryad or something like that from Narnia. Maybe that was what he was trying to capture. As A-b says it's difficult for us to understand what went on in those days when on the surface all was supposed to be so prim and proper but a girl of 12 was regarded as marriageable.

Was he courting Alice's sister or was he meeting the girls as an excuse to chat up one of the servants? Would such an age gap have been acceptable in Victorian society? Was it better to remain an old maid or to marry an old dodderer?

06-09-2005, 07:39	#17
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: The fashionable substitute for belief Sounds a bit like the image of a dryad or something like that from Narnia. Maybe that was what he was trying to capture. As A-b says it's difficult for us to understand what went on in those days when on the surface all was supposed to be so prim and proper but a girl of 12 was regarded as marriageable. Was he courting Alice's sister or was he meeting the girls as an excuse to chat up one of the servants? Would such an age gap have been acceptable in Victorian society? Was it better to remain an old maid or to marry an old dodderer? __________________