] ] to JA's Life & Times...would have loomed large in the consciousness of every socially ambitious young Englishwoman - and her mother?

] That's a pretty loose connection. To which of Jane Austen's heroines do you think the London season would have loomed large?

It certainly would loom large in the mind of Caroline Bingley. I would be eager to settle down when she wanted to rejoin her friends in London.

Or is L&T linked to characters in the books only linked to the life of heroines?