Re: Why Georgiana would (or might) live separately from her brother

Redson wrote:

"About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it, to Ramsgate;"

As you so rightly say, Jane Austen leaves some things unclarified. The truth after Ramsgate must remain clouded, but it was the section above, and the knowledge that Mrs Younge ran a boarding house in London later that makes me think that possibly Georgiana was installed in her house as a tenant by Darcy rather than renting somewhere of her own. There is no mention of Mrs Younge being a tutor, just a governess, although it seems feasible that one may well follow the other. . Darcy managed to find Mrs Younge easily enough whilst seeking Wickham and Lydia ( although it was some time before he was able to get the required information from her) because Mrs Younge had taken "a large house in Edward Street" from which she let rooms, following her previous trade, it would seem. Once bitten, twice shy might be the maxim? We'll never really know.