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But till my last moments my words are the same: there'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame...

The penultimate week of the read-along, and in these chapters we are still very Jacobite.

Next week we will, sadly, read Part V Chapter 5 and the Epilogue.

Date: Jan. 13th, 2022 02:15 pm (UTC)
owl: Stylized barn owl (Default)
From: [personal profile] owl
I expect the industrial revolution would have ended the clan system a few decades later, if the reprisals for the '45 hadn't.

Date: Jan. 13th, 2022 02:19 pm (UTC)
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
From: [personal profile] luzula
Yes, that's the impression I get from my reading, as well! And apparently both the Jacobite and Hanoverian clan elites were equally involved in commercial ventures. Jacobitism was not some sort of "return to a feudal past" kind of thing.

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