Oh, those Regency rakehells!
We were amused by the blog of Dennis St. Michel, Viscount Stokington, whom you might know in another incarnation as Dennis the Menace. Not only is it hilarious, there are parts that sound awfully familiar…
What nonsense is this, I thought with mad bravado. What fear? What shame? I am Dennis St. Michel! But even as I made plans for the appeasement of my father, the dread settled into my very marrow. Perhaps, if I told him that I intended to make an honest man of myself, to make an honest woman of Margaret, he might be lenient on the matter of Oxford. For, it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a scoundrel not in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
(That’s not the only one; we got a good hearty horse-laugh out of “Last night I dreamt I went to Menacing House again.”)
Found via The Comics Curmudgeon
November 26th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
It’s the oddest feeling when fandoms colide! When I started reading the Comics Curmudgeon, I little thought it would ever have any connection with Jane Austen…