I started thinking about what would have happened in 'Pride and Prejudice' if the Gardiners had been able to take Lizzie to the Lake District, as originally planned, instead of the Peaks.
Darcy wouldn't have been on hand to save the day.
The location of Lyme is vital to the plot of 'Persuasion'.
Anne Elliot is a poor, wizened old maid of 27. Her old suitor, Captain Wentworth, tells someone that Anne is unrecognisable. Some might say that he's just bitter because Anne let herself be persuaded not to marry him. He seems very keen on the wilful and ebullient Louisa Musgrove. Subtext, Louisa would never have allowed herself to be persuaded not to marry the man she loved.
But in Lyme events are allowed to unfold that puts wrong things right. (All it takes is a simple bash to the head)
Louisa won't allow anyone to dissuade her from jumping off the top of the Cobb. Wentworth fails to catch her and she falls and bashes her head. A train of events is set into effect which allows things to be resolved, eventually. Wentworth is able to observe how sensible and good in a crisis Anne is. He also sees her being admired by another man (her cousin, but that wasn't creepy in those days), which doesn't harm her case. BOSH, happy ending. How lucky that Wentworth and Musgrove decided to go to Lyme on a whim.
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