Did Regency Gentlemen Go to Their Wedding Beds As Virgins?

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• Jane Austen is my favorite writer

  I'm also a big fan of Les Miserables (book and musical) and the fate of Fantine is devastating.
  
  So I always intentionally stop myself from thinking about what Mr. Darcy and Captain Wentworth (Wentworth especially, as a Navy man!) are up to before the novel starts. I'm so…