[garinda]

Read most of her stuff, but it doesn't float my boat, well not as much as those northern harpies the Brontes do.

When I lived in London I did know a real life Mrs Bennet though. She came over from Ireland in the early sixties to model, married a used car salesman from Epping, and produced three daughters. She schooled those girls in the etiquette that she'd never had back in the Emerald Isle, determined they'd all marry well.

She did her job well, all three made good marriages, and all three now have titles. The youngest and prettiest married Viscount Rothermere, owner of the Daily Express, as well as vast swathes of prime Canadian forest. The eldest has separated from her husband, and I saw her recently in the paper described as Mark Thatcher's 'new girlfriend'.

Oh well, even Mrs Bennet can't win them all.