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Re: The Pemberley Effect - Part Nine - Today
Are you sure this is a TPE chapter and not a TBE chapter? It's so frustrating not seeing ODC together, or at least the focus of the chapter! Maybe Georgiana will arrive and get things going in the right direction. I would hope she'd have more interest in what is going on with her brother than in any cousins.by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: deleted/alternate scene (DNA) - 6 days ago
These omitted scenes are beautifully written, but your final version is superior. Thanks for such a poignant story.by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Yes, they need fewer people around - 8 days ago
Linnea Eileen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Both Darcy and Elizabeth a confused right now. No > wonder, they have so many people around them to > muddle things up. Yes! Absolutely, the poor dears. I wish Darcy's cousins would just go back to their homes and leave our dear couple alone.by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Barrister vs Attorney - 8 days ago
There was a great divide in the legal profession. Barristers were considered gentlemen and attorneys were not. Becoming a barrister would be one path to gentleman (which was was Wickham's supposed goal when he told Darcy he wished to study the law). Following are a few quotes from sources at the Regency Encyclopedia: While the social prestige of attorneys had increased over the last century, itby JanetR - Tea Room
Respectable - 10 days ago
If you notice how Jane Austen uses the word 'respectable' I think you'll find that it doesn't necessarily always mean high-born or gently born. She is just as likely to use it in regard to people in trade or tenants as she is in regard to gentry.by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: Looking for story Georgiana's Friend - 14 days ago
It's available as a pdf at another (adult) site in their section called Pemberley Library.by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: The Pemberley Effect - Part Seven - 14 days ago
I look forward every week to The Pemberley Effect. You must give us more FD and EB conversations and thoughts! Maybe send them on a picnic of their own and ignore everyone else for a while?by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Howard Jacobson on the wonders of Austen - 22 days ago
This is a must-read for readers of Jane Austen. Howard Jacobson delivered this lecture at the Telegraph Hay Festival on Sunday 26 May. Read the text at this link.by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: The Brighton Effect - Chapter Fourteen - 24 days ago
Good of the viscount to keep Miss Bingley out of Darcy's way!by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: The Pemberley Effect - Part Five - 29 days ago
Darcy to Miss Bingley: “I endeavour not to be blind to faults,” was his only response. Wonderful ... and right over her head. :Dby JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Nature of the Beast - 4 weeks ago
Or ... it could end with Darcy waking, realizing it was all a dreadful nightmare, and happy that in reality they are all still unicorns.by JanetR - Tea Room
It seems Bingley did not ask for Darcy's advice - 4 weeks ago
Alan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ Presumably that's why Bingley asked Darcy to come examine Netherfield before he signed the lease! :) But it appears he didn't. From the text of P&P ~ QuoteMr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. He did look at it, and into it, for half-an-hby JanetR - Tea Room
Entail? - 5 weeks ago
There is no mention of an entail in S&S that I can find. Entails and wills were not the same thing.by JanetR - Tea Room
Not disappointed at all - 5 weeks ago
What's to disappoint? Elizabeth and Darcy danced togther. And amicably, it appears. She blushed. He felt lightheaded. All good. I hope she picked up on the "indeed, quite the reverse" comment. I'd love to see a relationship-furthering conversation as they enjoy drinking some punch together. (Flirt, Darcy, if you can!)by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Couldn't it happen like this? - 5 weeks ago
If Lady Catherine has it right, Longbourn's entail does not go through the female line. Quote"Your father's estate is entailed on Mr. Collins, I think. For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line. Away from the female line would mean not only that a female could not inherit but also that inheritance could notby JanetR - Tea Room
Hotel - 5 weeks ago
Further indication that Bingley did not have his own house in London can be seen in this line that Miss Bingley wrote to Jane: we have determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotelby JanetR - Tea Room
Re: Why does Mr. Collins inherit Longbourn? - 5 weeks ago
Christine Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great question! I've always wondered how Collins > could inherit since he wasn't a Bennet. Maybe his > grandfather (or great-grandfather) changed his > name? Or maybe the property originated with a Collins and somewhere along the line one of them changed his name to Bennet.by JanetR - Tea Room
Collins - 5 weeks ago
Mari Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where it falls down a bit for me is that > Collins went to Oxford. What could Austen have > meant by that? Perhaps she did not Charlotte > stuck with someone who was bad?) Jane Austen never said Collins went to Oxford, only that "he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, withby JanetR - Tea Room
Cambridge and Oxford - 5 weeks ago
Without any proof whatsoever, I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Darcy, if he did go to university, would go to Oxford. That suspicion is based only on the facts that 1) Oxford was where Jane Austen's father and brothers (the ones who went to university) went, so she would have a bias towards it. 2) When the universities are specified in her novels, the 'good' guys seem to go to Oxford (by JanetR - Tea Room
Or Darcy either - 5 weeks ago
Right. Nothing in P&P says Bingley was at university. Nor is it ever said that Darcy was. On the other hand, it isn't said that they never were, so it's just as fair to have them do so as not and equally open as to which university.by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: People haven't changed, the world has. - 5 weeks ago
"Elizabeth, although jokingly, also speaks of a future when she is the maiden aunt who lives with her sister and takes care of Jane's children" What chapter of P&P is this in?by JanetR - Tea Room
Woman/Girl - 6 weeks ago
Bianca Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good point. If she'd been older she would be woman > not girl But she is called a woman in P&P. QuoteMr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion. Quote"Oh! my dear," continued Mrs. Bennet, "by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: The Pemberley Effect - Part Two - 7 weeks ago
Triplet Darcys! Now that would be something to behold!by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Can't wait to read The Pemberley Effect version of this! - 7 weeks ago
n/tby JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Country house - 2 months ago
Nothing in P&P actually says Netherfield is an income-producing estate with tenant farms. It could very well be simply a gentleman's large country house with some pleasure grounds and shooting land attached.by JanetR - Tea Room
Re: From This Day Forward - The Darcys of Pemberley, Chapter 2 - 2 months ago
I'm enjoying this lovely story so far. I thought perhaps Darcy would want Elizabeth to be presented at court so that someday in the future she would be able to sponsor their own daughters for their presentations instead of chancing that someone else would be willing and available to do it when the time came.by JanetR - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: In lieu of an update this week... - 2 months ago
There's nothing so wonderful and miraculous as suddenly having a brand new human being in the room. (Well, maybe not so 'suddenly', but you know what I mean.) Congratulations!by JanetR - Tea Room