Re: Miss Bingleys' status - Comfort Consequence reply thread - in response to...
I think I'd have to disagree. Even now half a day's journey is a pretty good stint, and back then it was enough trouble to travel that they're staying at Netherfield for a couple of months rather than...
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Suzanne O Wrote:I do think we're meant to infer, at the end of the book, that they spent the majority of their married life at Pemberley. Mrs. Reynolds suggests that Darcy might spend more time at...
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Well, we have Lizzy's comment at the end about how Darcy was so used to be flattered and praised by women, that her refusal to do so made him fall in love with her. While she's joking a little bit I...
View ArticleRe: And wanted to add -- Re: What Mr. Gardiner (in Lizzy C.'s story) thought
If a third person's opinion matters, I don't think you should change it. Mr. Bennet's remark is coached in such terms that it is no way a direct reference to his own marriage, and although Mr....
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You're right about Myrna Loy being a knockout, in the sense that when she's on screen you're not looking at anyone else. I think that makes her perfect for Elizabeth, who attracted both Darcy and...
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Frankly, Darcy isn't likely to be seen at Almack's except under unusual circumstances [and I know I sent them there in Vanities and Vexations, but that was because of Catherine de Bourgh intervened as...
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if Mr Bennet's [say] great grandfather had a son and a daughter, and the daughter married a Mr Collins, and the male line continued as far as Mr Bennet from that son, 3 more generations, and Mrs...
View ArticleRe: Is Darcy really such an eligible bachelor in the ton?
Suzanne O Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Well, we have Lizzy's comment at the end about how> Darcy was so used to be flattered and praised by> women, that her...
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For some reason, i have always had the impression that despite its distance from London -- or perhaps because of it -- Derbyshire and environs was its own like rather worldly locale. Industry was...
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But in their society, the aristocracy and gentry who had houses or spent the season in London did not live there all the time, it was the tradesmen's families (the Cits) who were more likely to do...
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I agree that the Bingley wealth must have been relatively recent. The only question is how genteel they were before, and we're simply not told. All we know is that Mr. Bingley's father was living...
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I don't know as much about culture up north. London was definitely the Town of England at the time, and even landowners from distant Derbyshire (which was a three days' journey, as someone else has...
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About the house in town-- if London was the city where their fortune was made, I would agree with you. However, we're told the family is from the north of England, so I would imagine that the family...
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I think it makes the most sense to assume that the family had come within the last generation or two from one of the large commercial towns of the north. For the purposes of my story I'm assuming...
View ArticleRe: And wanted to add -- Re: What Mr. Gardiner (in Lizzy C.'s story) thought
Thanks for your two cents, Suzanne! I do think the remark is sufficiently indirect not to be quite an insult.
View ArticleRe: Is Darcy really such an eligible bachelor in the ton?
Good for you for examining the assumptions! And yes, in this case I think they prove to be right. :-)
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I think there's a lot of truth to that. We're told, after all, that Elizabeth looks forward to the "comfort and elegance of a family party" at Pemberley. She's used to country life and likes it. They...
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> isn't that how titles also pass?Yes, but titles pass that way because British law says so, while entails are written by the owners of the property and are therefore more flexible.For example:...
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