Heather,
> Surely she was drawing on Audrey from "To The
> Manor Born"? Really, Lady Catherine is just an
> older version of Audrey anyway. Or rather Audrey
> is a younger version of Lady Catherine. Can you
> imagine if Lady Catherine had had to leave Rosings
> following the death of her husband, and she moved
> into the Lodge, while some trumped up businessman
> bought the estate? Any TV company would make a
> mint with a Regency version of TTMB!
I wasn't a regulr viewer of that show when it aired in the States, but surely Audrey was a much kinder, more intelligent woman that Lady C. Can you imagine Lady C falling in love with and marrying an immigrant grocer, however wealthy? I sure can't.
Audrey, ultimately, was able to see past her prejudices, or at least her preconceptions, and see what a worthy and worthwhile person Richard really was. Lady C would still be grinding her teeth at "the shades of Rosings" being thus "polluted."
JIM
> Surely she was drawing on Audrey from "To The
> Manor Born"? Really, Lady Catherine is just an
> older version of Audrey anyway. Or rather Audrey
> is a younger version of Lady Catherine. Can you
> imagine if Lady Catherine had had to leave Rosings
> following the death of her husband, and she moved
> into the Lodge, while some trumped up businessman
> bought the estate? Any TV company would make a
> mint with a Regency version of TTMB!
I wasn't a regulr viewer of that show when it aired in the States, but surely Audrey was a much kinder, more intelligent woman that Lady C. Can you imagine Lady C falling in love with and marrying an immigrant grocer, however wealthy? I sure can't.
Audrey, ultimately, was able to see past her prejudices, or at least her preconceptions, and see what a worthy and worthwhile person Richard really was. Lady C would still be grinding her teeth at "the shades of Rosings" being thus "polluted."
JIM