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** Given the rest of the cast's frequent encounters with high-mortality diseases, it could just be the rest of her family's dead. I guess that also counts as [[Fridge Horror]].
* Women in the 18th century, where the book is set, who were above a certain age, were called Mrs. It was the respectable thing to do. Refer to Pamela by Samuel Richardson, where the heroine, a 15-year-old serving girl is called Mrs Pamela by the other servants. Only in the late 18th or 19th century did older spinsters become a Miss.
* It's been generally forgotten, but "Mrs." is an abbreviation for "Mistress", and as noted above wasn't always an honorific specific to married women.
== People calling it a 'love story'. *shudders* ==
* I think it's an amazing book, but I wouldn't describe it as a romance.
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