How does one end an engagement in regency era England? Research says a man can end it if he finds something untoward about the lady or the guardians can (if there are any) if the dowry etc can't be worked out1⃣... #Sanditon #SaveSanditon #SanditonPBS (Long Thread)
It looks better if the woman ends things as men's reputations bounce back quicker. It can indeed get complicated, but if both parties are okay with it, it can end quickly and quietly2⃣...
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...Especially if the man goes and marries someone else even before telling the engaged woman that he has done that. So all this being said...How does Sidney get out of the engagement with Eliza in this fictional #Sanditon scenario?3⃣...

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1: S finds out E can't or doesn't want children, which allows him to break off engagement.
2: Lady Susan or Lady D interfere in some way by means of money or some kind of manipulation 4⃣...
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3: E is only ever in a race to win it and if she accepts that S will never love her. She can end engagement because despite being married to him she will not have won the race for his heart. Her ego won't allow it. 5⃣...

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4: Someone from Sidney's past arrives from Antiqua who offers to take up the debt, freeing S from Eliza, but S is now in debt to this man. Although free to love whom he pleases, Charlotte, he will now have a new conflict. 6⃣

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Anyway, this is my writing brain plotting out scenarios. In screenwriting, often times we write a spec script on an existing show that is currently airing. #Sanditon is technically cancelled (but will have its HEA as I'm sure it'll be picked up). #SaveSanditon #sanditonPBS 7⃣...
In the meantime, I've decided to write an episode. (As I finish up my Christmas #romcom that's due soon) So writing on spec in the screenwriting world is pretty much doing fan fiction #Sanditon #SaveSanditon #SanditonPBS END 🥰✍️

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