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QuoteSuzanne O By the way, is anyone besides me and Zee interested in this?I've yet to post anything here (although I've lurked for years) but this seems like a great place to start. Those captions...
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Hi there, sorry, I'm a bit new to this archive!I was looking for a story I read here a while ago, in which Elizabeth and Anne de Bourgh struck up a friendship, which was kept up by writing to each...
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If i remember correctly that is Nothing Wanting by juliecoop, found here.
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The versions of characters you're describing are softer versions, easier to write and easier to read. In canon, Elizabeth and Darcy both have sharp edges, and it's sometimes very difficult to capture...
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I do enjoy many of the stories in which we find out couple practically perfect, and I get that it's easier to write. However, I think that I find it particularly disappointing when Elizabeth is...
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Physical beauty doesn't detract from the romance. Not only is beauty subjective, but it alone doesn't guarantee attraction.I've certainly dated, became friends with, and known men who were absolutely...
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Too buxom eh? Imagine the flak if someone had said Keira Knightly was too flat.We women are the meanest with regards to body image. For every body type there are a number of men attracted to it,...
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It's my understanding that the Regency was something an aberration in terms of fashionable figures, in that fashion moved from the full-figured woman to the idea of being delicate and sort of...
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Bernie posted on Tumblr they will NOT be trying to force Caroline into an Augusta mold, but letting her character develop in its own way. I am more excited about this than I can even tell you. That...
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Google Thomas Rowlandson's art that was an almost shamefully similar to the real Lady Hamilton. This was considered the ideal female figure for the times, wide hips, slightly plump and rounded with a...
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Which attraction came first for Darcy is a debated point. In the novel he admits to physical attraction then takes steps to know her better.
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It's hard to know for certain from the novel. Austen has different characters comment on or react to Elizabeth, and all we know for certain of her physically was that she was relatively small (her...
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I enjoyed your comment about the figures and was glad to learn that. However, I am not sure I would agree with your interpretation of the Austen text as Darcy admitting to physical attraction....
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In my achingly long comment, I put a part of what I wanted to say in the quote box for Austen's copy. You can probably tell. Just before the first quoted Austen bit, I meant to say, True, it was her...
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I personally feel that he was attracted to her both physically and intellectually at the same time.I was pointing out what some scholars have, and that the physical attributes are listed first.Bottom...
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As you say, I guess one could go back and forth on this. To me, thing he is noted as noticing first is her intelligence. It's the intelligence of her eyes that he sees--but also their beauty at the...
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I'm not nitpicking, just continuing the discussion. Literature is after all subjective and intrepretations are personal.With regards to the use of the word "mortifying" when Darcy admits to himself of...
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I agree with that interpretation of mortifying. He is definitely mortified to realize that she's really pretty after all. I'm just pointing out that his realization of this fact started with his...
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