Tuesday Tidbit ~ Entails

Luckington Estate - more fondly known by fans of Jane Austen as Longbourn

I do believe I heard your eye roll, dear reader when you saw the title. What a dreadfully boring subject, but one that is vital to the story of Pride & Prejudice and the beleaguered Bennet family with five unmarried daughters. Miss Austen also saw fit to add entails to Sir Walter Elliot's property in Persuasion as well as the Dashwood's estate in Sense & Sensibility. 

Mr. Dashwood was upset because he could not cut down the ...