![]() ![]() Parker can recover from a twisted ankle, and the new friendship prompts the Parkers to take the young Charlotte Heywood - the likely heroine of the novel - to see the progress being made in Sanditon. The Parkers are taken in by the Heywoods so Mr. And come to find out, he and his wife are in the wrong Willingden - the Willingden without a doctor. ![]() Thomas Parker, intent on finding a doctor for Sanditon - the fishing village he hopes to turn into a bustling seaside resort - has driven the carriage on an impassible road. It’s sad that we’ll never know Austen’s plans for her characters, an eccentric bunch that I found very amusing. Jane Austen was writing Sanditon when she fell ill, beginning the manuscript on January 17, 1817, ending chapter 12 on March 18, 1817, and dying on July 18, 1817, at the age of 41 without having finished it. ![]() (from Sanditon in Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, page 191) To be generally gallant and assiduous about the fair, to make fine speeches to every pretty girl, was but the inferior part of the character he had to play. The very name of Sir Edward he thought, carried some degree of fascination with it. He felt that he was formed to be a dangerous man - quite in the line of the Lovelaces. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such talents as he did also give himself credit for, he regarded it as his duty. ![]() Sir Edward’s great object in life was to be seductive. ![]()
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