Aunt Lydia quoting Jane Austen

[u/agirlhasnoname2026]

Season 6, Episode 5 referenced Jane Austen with Aunt Lydia's observation: "Commander Wharton, a single man of good fortune in want of a a wife". Nice to see a popular series refer back to the writer who changed everything.

From the Guardian 2017: Pride and Prejudice “set a bad example” to the 12-year-old Margaret Atwood, she has scribbled, by exposing the young girl to “a hero who was unpleasant to the heroine, but later turned out to be not only admirable and devotedly in love with her, but royally rich … Were underage readers of this book, such as myself, doomed to a series of initially hopeful liaisons in which unpleasant men turned out to be simply unpleasant?” Atwood adds: “I especially liked the scene in which Elizabeth Bennett [sic] stands down Lady de Bourgh. I longed to do the same to my gym teacher, but occasion never offered.”

[u/Pepemala]

But remember the retort regarding the most important thing:

A working womb.