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Thread #147301   Message #3426065
Posted By: GUEST,Jane Ann Liston
25-Oct-12 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Minourie (Binorie, Minorie, The Two Sisters)
Subject: RE: Minourie (Binorie, Minorie, The Two Sisters)
The 'surplus third sister' reminds me of Jane Austen's 'Sense & Sensibility'; at least one TV version dispensed with the youngest sister Margaret because she plays no part in the main story.

Binorie is mentioned in passing by Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L. Sayers 'Strong Poison:

'Two ladies lived in a bower. Binnorie O Binnorie!'