Gracechurch Street Park (slightly off-topic)
This question brought to my mind something I've wondered about for a long time --In ever so many JAFF P&P stories, when the setting is the Gardiners' Gracechurch Street residence, the authors have...
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I agree that in canon that would be the most likely scenario, although if Bingley were a regular inmate of the Hurst’s house, would he not have gone there to stay in Town? He might have had his...
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His plan was to be in town briefly. There would not have been reason to open up the Hurst house for that. There was likely a minimal staff and those on board wages so more trouble than not to go to...
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Yes, that much I'd gathered. My point was more that it's curiously ubiquitous that Darcy lives in Grosvenor Square when the only mention in the book of Grosvenor is the Hursts on that street.
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My favourite Regency London map is the one shown on the Regency Encyclopaedia. [Map Gallery --> Tour of Regency London] www.reg-ency.comIt highlights where all Jane Austen's character's lived, so...
View ArticleRe: London neighborhoods
This is a huge help. Thanks! I checked the Perry-Castañeda library map collection,which usually is a good source for historical maps, but in this case their maps of London have a gap of about 300...
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Re: Gracechurch Street Park (slightly off-topic)
QuoteCarol P Does anyone know if there really was even a small park somewhere on or near Gracechurch Street back in Regency times?Not on any map I've seen, Carol. Even the church yards would have been...
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I've read in the Regency Encyclopedia that an income of at least 10,000 pounds a year was necessary to keep a house in town year-round. That estimate always seemed very high to me, but it's by no...
View ArticleWhy Mr. Collins?
I've read discussions regarding how Mr. Collins came to have a different last name than the Bennets, given that we know from the terms of the entail that he must be related to them through the male...
View ArticleRe: Gracechurch Street Park (slightly off-topic)
In Force of Passion the author (someone who clearly knows a lot about English history) chose to put the Gardiner house in a little square opening off Gracechurch Street, making the house itself a bit...
View ArticleRe: Why Mr. Collins?
I think it was to suggest that one of his ancestors was willing to forsake the family name for reasons of expedience - that is, to suggest a kind of weakness of character - as well as to emphasize the...
View ArticleRe: Why Mr. Collins?
If I understand it correctly, descent from the male line could go back several generations - meaning there might have been descent from a mere female (and a name change) at some point.e.g. the male...
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I think the idea is that Darcy being richer would live in the square instead of on the adjacent street. The houses in the square were generally bigger, but not on a par with Park Lane or Upper Brook...
View ArticleGrosvenor Square
I think it's used because it was a big, fashionable square at the time, but not too high end. As a plot device, you can have people looking out across the square to see "something happening", and it's...
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Certainly given the income Bingley would have from his 100K pounds, I don't think he could afford a house in Town and an estate. He could have one or the other, but tying up a lot of his capital on...
View Articledepends on the entailment
It's possible there was a female in the line somewhere, but if so, I think it would have been mentioned in the story - my understanding is that was fairly unusual at the time. Because, if Longbourn...
View ArticleRe: Good! I am on board with that position! Re: Wouldn't dream of it changing it
This smacks a bit of Lady Catherine, Janet..."If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." ;)
View ArticleThere's no reason to assume a name change
Nobody changed their name. Mr. Collins is simply inheriting through a female line of descent.Chapter 7 tells us that "Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a...
View ArticleRe: Good! I am on board with that position! Re: Wouldn't dream of it changing it
Oh. Yes!. And so would my daughter, if her health had allowed her to apply. :)
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