I appreciate that Charles thinks this book is lighthearted because I found it deeply stressful in the best Austen fashion.
The degree to which money and respectability can ruin people and trap them is impressive.
Also shoutout to the inverse relationship in specific romance novels between how accepted a person is in society and how much they believe in consent.
Also an absolute round of applause for

having the Christian marrying a Jewish character agree to convert! There's always this inherent approval of intermarriage and this book just...the Jewish character says "look, I'm not particularly religious, but I'm Jewish and my family will be Jewish. <3

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