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Bookpossum · 11-19-2019, 11:06 PM

Thanks for sorting me out issybird - it must be getting on for 50 years or more since I read it, so I had forgotten that complication for the younger Catherine.

Although there is that resemblance of the next generation getting it right between the two books, there would be the tendency to marry within the group of people with whom you grew up. People didn't normally travel around much and didn't have the opportunity to marry someone from another village, as it were. Unless of course they were high society and went to London for the "season", to find a suitable bride/groom.

11-19-2019, 11:06 PM	#63
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Thanks for sorting me out issybird - it must be getting on for 50 years or more since I read it, so I had forgotten that complication for the younger Catherine. Although there is that resemblance of the next generation getting it right between the two books, there would be the tendency to marry within the group of people with whom you grew up. People didn't normally travel around much and didn't have the opportunity to marry someone from another village, as it were. Unless of course they were high society and went to London for the "season", to find a suitable bride/groom.