Suzanne O:
That all sounds very much as it should be historically and via references. Film adaptations do use a large amount of artistic licence which generally isn't too detrimental, but the last version pushed a few boundaries with period, style and leaving out characters as well as making everything over- rural. ( I.M.O) Jane Austen's book is of course always canon and I honestly believe ( and this is just my opinion) when she wrote Pride and Prejudice- indeed all her novels- that she didn't see them or he her characters anywhere near as complex as we readers do. We all have our own interpretations based on her habit of leaving descriptions to our imaginations. As such I'd describe the opening event in the 2005 version as more a communal village ball, church social than an assembley,which would be a fair enough situation to include young children. The BBC version was much more how I'd imagine the Meryton assembly to be. That's what mainly prompted my question.
