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It's perhaps worth noting that in the Little House books, which are set on the frontier in the 1870s, they bathe once a week, winter or summer.
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is that Mr. Collins was tall and heavy looking, the latter meaning he looked dour and serious.He was not a fun or charming guy, but he may well have been handsome. Sometimes a person's demeanor can...
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In the text, there was nothing repulsive about Collins physically, what was wrong with him was that he was stupid. Elizabeth never said a word against Collins' physical appearance. Charlotte, when she...
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Yes, that's interesting, isn't it? On the one hand, those conditions would be even more primitive. On the other hand, they're not necessarily less comfortable. I would guess that bathing in the family...
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I agree that the text says nothing bad about Mr. Collins's physical appearance. It was more of a toss-off remark than anything else; an indication that while my imagination requires (if there is no...
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Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------I think the decision to> portray him as rather oily in the '95 film version> was a good one. Together with his manner (which...
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Sorry, I momentarily forgot how to post here. That is my post.
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I've read somewhere that marrying Collins could actually have been quite a triumph for Charlotte -- she's the only female character in JA who married a younger man! There's nothing against his...
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I am working on my first P&P fic, and I trying to make it as accurate as possible. However, I have hit a bit of a snag with regard to boarding schools and universities. The premise of my fic is...
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I agree that the Mr. Collins of the movie was not an accurate translation of JA's character. I thought it was a reasonable take, though. Film is obviously a very different medium, and has different...
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Did you see Matthew Glick's performance in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries? I personally feel that he did very well there. Basically, they made him a sort of a cross between a fanboy and a lackey of Lady...
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As long as Mrs Bennet was still able to bear children nobody counted on William Collins inheriting Longbourn, so he would have needed to be prepared to make his own way in the world. Considering his...
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I suspect a lot of the choice of school was made based on where the father had gone to school. Obviously someone made the initial choice, but you could justify just about anything based on "that's...
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Given the Bennets' attitudes in educating their daughters (whoever wanted to learn was given books and instruction but others could be idle) I don't see the Mr. Bennet sending William Collins to...
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Also, I should have said, I think chance played a big part if there wasn't tradition involved.People would ask around and get suggestions from people they do (much as you are doing here!) :-)Also,...
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Have you read A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew James Austen Leigh? It talks quite a bit about her father took in boys of lesser gentry to educate them. That might be an idea you could run with,...
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There are also many lesser public schools, like our own local one,The Ipswich School, Felawe's House as it was in its inception around 1380. Cardinal Wolsey is its most famous Alumnus. Baldock is the...
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Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I agree that the Mr. Collins of the movie was not> an accurate translation of JA's character. I> thought it was a...
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Hah, Sarah. Mr. Bennet would have had to be energetic to do that, and I don't think that, as written by Austen, he had it in him.
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In the department of things not done before, I'd love to see someone send Darcy to Winchester College instead of Eton or Harrow, primarily because its students are called Wykehamists (after the...
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