Re: Survey: Knightley's name in Emma Approved
After having George Wickham in the Lizzy Bennet Diaries, I guess they didn't want another character (especially the hero) to have the same name.
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View ArticleRe: Survey: Knightley's name in Emma Approved
Besides the reason Jessica gives, George is not a terribly popular name in America. I think it's a name that tends to be associated with overweight schoolboys or choleric old men. What can I say? We...
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It also gives Caroline an overly familiar nickname--Al--to call him and get on Emma's nerves. In the modern setting calling him Knightly wouldn't have had the same effect and there's not much you can...
View ArticleRe: rank and equality, JA and the Brontes
I have no answer to Marks's query but add another question.Of Darcy's estate in Derbyshire, Wickham says, "Yes, his estate there is a noble one. A clear ten thousand per annum."I often wonder about...
View ArticleRe: rank and equality, JA and the Brontes
I think Mr Bennet's 2000 is net income, if their net income was only 700, they would be more on the level of Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters with 500 a year at Barton Cottage in S&S. The...
View ArticleRe: His Own Sphere
I can understand that Darcy, because he liked his friend Bingley so much, would wish Bingley to marry up, and also thinking that besides his fortune from trade, Bingley had such agreeable personal...
View ArticleRe: Survey: Knightley's name in Emma Approved
This was the reason as given by the creators.
View ArticleRe: rank and equality, JA and the Brontes
From my lamentable memory, there was not so much difference in the rents between the various shires that it would make a substantial difference when talking about the money. Maybe a few hundred here...
View ArticleRe: His Own Sphere
No arguments that Darcy's behavior was inexcusable! Especially by the standards of our times, although I think also by the standards of his own. Of course back then it was fairly common for families...
View ArticleUnwilling Viscount and archiving attention Amy please!
I've deliberately NOT enrolled in KDP select this time so Rookwood/The Unwilling Viscount should be able to stay up. They are meeping at me about do I hold the rights. I am hoping this will soon be...
View ArticleRe: Tapestry of Lives
Thanks for the encouragement! Work is really crazy at the moment but if I survive the next five weeks, I promise to buckle down and finish the story. During the winter, I started working the text into...
View ArticleRe: His Own Sphere
I think it's very obvious in your story, even more so than the original, that Darcy's primary motive is really to get himself away from Elizabeth Bennet. It's interesting, because while at Netherfield...
View ArticleExcellent points
I think this is well put. Jane Austen's heroines were definitely broad-minded regarding things like education, intelligence, and character being more valuable than social rank or money, but they...
View ArticleRe: His Own Sphere
I agree that Darcy has even less logical reason than in the original for interfering -- in his Hunsford letter, he said "the want of connexion could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me. But...
View ArticleEven if the Bennets don't travel to London for any reason
(in the novel Mr. Bennet don't like to go) the Gardiners (who according to Regency's society are Jane's "low" connections) will be living there, and they can visit Jane, so his thought about "her...
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What constellations are visible in central England (Hertfordshire) in October? Thank you.
View ArticleRe: Even if the Bennets don't travel to London for any reason
And even Lady Cat could not say anything against Mr Bennet's status because he was a gentleman, but he married beneath him, and it was the Phillipses and the Gardiners, Mrs Bennet's sister and...
View ArticleRe: quick question for those who live in England and know about stars
Hi Suzanne, Try this site: www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/YourhorizonYou can input the latitude and longitude (approx 51N 0W), any date you choose, and the time - and finally, which way your characters are...
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