Scuttlebutt blog5/27/2023 Forbidden relationships and elopements were considered adventurous and also seen hyped and reflect in the fiction of the time.Īs the village of Gretna Green on the Scottish border were easily accessible, eloped couples from England flocked here to get married the Scottish laws were lenient : you could marry on the spot only requiring two witnesses and assurances from the couple that they were both free to marry. Run away marriages stirred quite an excitement and were standard newspaper gossip in Jane Austen's time. Gretna Green was notorious for runaway weddings in the mid 18th century and briefly mentioned in Austen's novels of Pride & Prejudice when the youngest Bennett sister Lydia elopes with Wickham and mentions this place as her destination in her letter. While inside this heritage place next morning, the information personnel at the door asked, ' So, what brings you here?' ‘Jane Austen’, I quipped -and that led him to conclude I was fairly aware of the antiquities of the place. And that was it I for sure was in for some history digging the next morning Unbeknownst to this place, he later told me we're staying at Gretna. Few taps on his mobile later, B had already booked a reasonable stay at a hotel on the motorway. Following a long day footslogging Ben Nevis, the plan that evening was to unwind at the forest bunkbed we were resting the previous night, but then an impromptu decision was made to shorten the next day rainy and arduous return home and off we were on the road. The visit being due twice earlier, this time around it seemed like a Divine will. One such place is Gretna Green, a village in the Scottish borders in Dumfriesshire. Reading history and classic literature books have taken me to some of the fantastic places in England and in UK.
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