[chajin]

In Jane Austin's last novel Persuasion, the protagonist Anne Elliot is in love with Capt. Wentworth, but is convinced he is no longer available, so she thinks of marrying her first cousin "Mr. Elliot." She eventually decides against it, not because he is her first cousin, but because he is a scam artist. (Of course she ends up with Wentworth.) Also, Edvard Grieg married his first cousin, and they were happily together for I think about 20 years before he died. They had one miscarriage, no born children.

[BigEdLB]

Grieg and his wife had a daughter who died before her 1st birthday. Heartbissuevwhich would have been fixed by modern medicine. I read a biography