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Originally Posted by Victoria
Agreed - it was a stretch. It was also completely unbelievable that Gilbert would send such a deeply private document to his friend twenty years later.
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I think he said he left out a few personal passages in copying it, but even the notion that he copied it strains credulity.
But worse than that, and one of the my major technical issues with the book, is that by her framing device, letters to a brother-in-law, Anne essentially revealed all her major plot points in advance! Halford would have known all the details of Gilbert's personal life. He reads the letters, knowing from the start, that Gilbert would end up married to Helen. And for the reader, that Gilbert has Helen's diary in his possession removes virtually all uncertainty.