prettiest daughter to be married to the stern older man- who must settle down, do his duty and find a family. however, he finds that the bluestoking daughter is more interesting

Do we have the Broke Parent of Status Marries Off Child to Rich Person of Lower Social Class Looking to Climb?

Hmmm...

Browbeaten governess and/or poor relation gets man intended for rich cousin/charge.

This one's medieval/Scottish rather than Regency, but natural enemies must marry to unite feuding principalities/clans.

I was going to say sister to save brother who has done wrong by getting in to debt, but that can lead to alone in the wilderness or marring to save the siblings

there are too many lines blurred - it is too easy to co-mingle plots....

there are also varations that include blackmail and smugglers.

Yes, mustn't forget the dreaded Awful Secret! Which would be the blackmail thing, but could also be the "I love you but, but, I just can't...." in which the hero(ine) eventually stumbles upon the truth, declares it is unimportant in the face of True Love, and TLHEA.

Oooooh, oooh, or the Treasure Hunt (ok, so this is so not typical Regency, it's one of my favorite George MacDonald devices from the ones that got "edited" back in the late 80s/early 90s. I never could find any non-edited ones. He's probably like the non-good-parts version of Princess Bride, anyway. In which indebted, impoverished laird re-thinks ancient family legends, searches for the mysterious hidden chamber, and finds wealth beyond his wildest dreams. Or at least enough to pay the freakin' morgtage and marry the cute sassanach who got snowed in with them and helped in the search.

Dan, we may have to have separate tubs.

The lack of slope in back was actually kind of nice, especially for those who do not have tiny perfect human bodies.

I cannot get comfortable in a tub without the slope no matter how many inflatable pillows I use. Then again, slope on one end, no slope on other? That could work.

ETA: a whole bunch of stuff. Eventually I'm going to get sleepy enough to give up on this post and go back to bed.

Plei, did your bathroom get finished, then?

Ooo! #7: the Pretend Engagement! (Where a couple who doesn't want to marry pretends to be engaged with plans to break it off, but accidentally falls in love along the way.)

Oldest daughter to marry so that the younger children will have better lives

Yes! Is this a 7b, or does Marriage of Convenience that turns in the real thing at the worst possible time, a number 8?

Hi SA!

My tub is long and almost 80 years old. I love my tub.

(It's not a clawfoot, just a standard mid-20s deep tub, but I still love it.)

That settles it, I'm going to Plei's house to have a bath. Growing up, we didn't have a shower, just an old, porcelain-coated, cast-iron, claw-footed tub. It could fit three people in it and held the heat FOREVER.

I hate my crappy, modern, narrow tub. With no decent backrest. Feh.

Owen pulled himself to the standing position in his crib. At 3:00 a.m. And then couldn't figure out how to get out of it. I had to get up and rescue him.