Yes, the BBC Pride and Prejudice series just seems so wholesome and proper and upstanding that it may be hard to believe, but if you just take a moment to research the life of Lord Byron, a flagrantly immoral, bisexual, incestuous, and nonetheless greatly admired celebrity during Jane Austen’s life, or the goings-ons of the Prince Regent and his compadres during the time that she was writing her books, you would very soon discover that the Kardashians have nothing on these people. An attempt to recreate that society, especially based on the cockeyed notion that it was a godly society, would be
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