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  1. @kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
    🧵 ending at h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

  2. @kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
    🧵 ending at h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

  3. @kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
    🧵 ending at h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

  4. @kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
    🧵 ending at h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

  5. @kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
    🧵 ending at h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

  6. My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
    🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

    Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
    h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #JaneAusten #UKpolitics
    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
    #EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

  7. My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
    🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

    Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
    h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #JaneAusten #UKpolitics
    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
    #EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

  8. My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
    🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

    Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
    h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #JaneAusten #UKpolitics
    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
    #EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

  9. My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
    🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

    Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
    h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #JaneAusten #UKpolitics
    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
    #EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

  10. My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
    🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

    Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
    h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/

    #JaneAusten #UKpolitics
    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
    #EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

  11. @Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!

    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
    #Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #SupportNHS

  12. @Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!

    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
    #Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #SupportNHS

  13. @Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!

    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
    #Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #SupportNHS

  14. @Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!

    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
    #Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #SupportNHS

  15. @Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!

    #WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
    #Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
    #SupportNHS

  16. @Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.

  17. @Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.

  18. @Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.

  19. @Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.

  20. @Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.

  21. @Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

    I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+P
    - fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

    #JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

  22. @Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

    I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+P
    - fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

    #JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

  23. @Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

    I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+P
    - fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

    #JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

  24. @Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

    I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+P
    - fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

    #JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

  25. @Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

    I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+P
    - fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

    #JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS