And suddenly Jane no longer cares for the terms of their arrangement, where he will sleep alone every night in his gloomy ancestral home and she will remain alone in town. She wins him with her logic and her steady nerve, and her ability to do his books and serve as a nurse. She simply wants an arrangement so she can be independent but covered under society’s rules.īut Augustine turns out to be quite handsome, if also slightly mysterious, and eventually is amenable to her suit. She is not interested in children, or even sex. He is also unmarried, her age, comfortable enough not to require a dowry but not so rich to demand social engagements. A woman cannot live independently, and so she decides on a marriage of convenience to the local doctor, Augustine Lawrence, sight unseen until the day she makes her case to him. But she’s nearing spinsterhood in a time and place (a fictional analog of Victorian England) when that is undesirable. She’s a self-taught accountant, and a good one. She loves math and numbers and doing sums. But I feel like she might have some views on the Law of Attraction that we might argue about. And clearly the author of The Death of Jane Lawrence also likes it. It’s a weird, sexy, stylish, haunted spun sugar mess of a thing that I will watch any time it’s on. Y’all, I really, really like Crimson Peak.
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