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Who do you have in mind for Hessian?
Charlotte Windham, next to oldest of the four sisters. I don't think we've met her yet in the other books. Beth showed up as an infant in The Duke and His Duchess, and then we caught a glimpse of her in Will's book with Megan...?
What's the birth order for the Windham cousins?
Elizabeth, Charlotte, Megan, Anwen (possibly Anwyn, have to do some research in Welsh sources).
I'm surprised that Megan's having her HEA ahead of her TWO older sisters O_O
Elizabeth is firmly on the shelf (she thinks), and Charlotte's story will unfold at the same time (I think... haven't written it yet). There was no hard and fast rule about marrying in birth order, (thank goodness for Lady Maggie), and the average age for brides at St. George's in the Regency was actually 25, not the blushing 18 some Regency worlds lead us to think.
One would have thought it was younger than 18 after reading Jane Austen (seriously, what was she thinking, having Elizabeth Bennet's 15-year-old sister eloping with a man almost twice her age??) :P
I'm guessing Jane was thinking of some unfortunate young lady of her own acquaintance. Marriages were valid in the Regency for females over the age of TWELVE, provided they had their father's permission. The same woman could not marry on her own initiative until she was twenty-one in England (sixteen in Scotland). Very different times...
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Charlotte Windham, next to oldest of the four sisters. I don't think we've met her yet in the other books. Beth showed up as an infant in The Duke and His Duchess, and then we caught a glimpse of her in Will's book with Megan...?
What's the birth order for the Windham cousins?
Elizabeth, Charlotte, Megan, Anwen (possibly Anwyn, have to do some research in Welsh sources).
I'm surprised that Megan's having her HEA ahead of her TWO older sisters O_O
Elizabeth is firmly on the shelf (she thinks), and Charlotte's story will unfold at the same time (I think... haven't written it yet). There was no hard and fast rule about marrying in birth order, (thank goodness for Lady Maggie), and the average age for brides at St. George's in the Regency was actually 25, not the blushing 18 some Regency worlds lead us to think.
One would have thought it was younger than 18 after reading Jane Austen (seriously, what was she thinking, having Elizabeth Bennet's 15-year-old sister eloping with a man almost twice her age??) :P
I'm guessing Jane was thinking of some unfortunate young lady of her own acquaintance. Marriages were valid in the Regency for females over the age of TWELVE, provided they had their father's permission. The same woman could not marry on her own initiative until she was twenty-one in England (sixteen in Scotland). Very different times...
