![]() ![]() It was an encouragement of vice and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it. ![]() I must not, however, neglect the duties of my station, or refrain from declaring my amazement at hearing that you received the young couple into your house as soon as they were married. ‘I am truly rejoiced that my cousin Lydia’s sad business has been so well hushed up, and am only concerned that their living together before the marriage took place should be so generally known. In Pride & Prejudice, Mr Collins writes just such a letter to Mr Bennet, about Lydia’s elopement: On the death of her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Knight, in October 1808, she wrote to Cassandra: ‘I have written to Edw Cooper, and hope he will not send one of his letters of cruel comfort to my poor brother’. ![]() He had a reputation for being tactless and unsympathetic, and Jane doesn’t seem to have liked him very much. He was an Evangelical Anglican clergyman, known for writing sermons and hymns – as shown in his portrait: you can see a roll of sermons in his hand. ![]()
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