From the desk of Shelley DeWees…The Uprising. If Elizabeth had not known better, she would have sworn he was deliberately throwing himself in her way, but she did know better. Whenever they were in company together, Darcy was usually cool and aloof, yet he chose to stare at her constantly, and with a level of [...]
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Review: The Truth About Mr. Darcy, by Susan Adriani
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Mr.Darcy, Popular culture, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Life, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Shelley de Wees, Susan Adriani, The Truth About Mr. Darcy on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dressing for the Netherfield Ball in Pride and Prejudice: Regency Fashion
Posted in Fashions, Film adaptation, jane austen, Jane Austen videos, Jane Austen's World, Jeniffer Ehle, Movie review, Pride & Prejudice 1995, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Life, Regency society, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Keira Knightley, Kelly Reilly, Miss Caroline Bingley, Mr. Darcy, Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Hurst, Netherfield Ball, Regency Fashion on June 21, 2010 | 47 Comments »
Inquiring Readers: I will be contributing four posts to Pride and Prejudice Without Zombies, Austenprose’s main event for June/July – or an in-depth reading of Pride and Prejudice. This post discusses the clothes that the characters would have worn in relation to the film adaptations and actual fashion plates of the time. Warning: this is a [...]
Jane Bennet’s Apothecary in Pride and Prejudice
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged apothecary, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice 2005, Regency doctors on June 12, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Gentle Reader, next week Austenprose will begin a Pride and Prejudice extravaganza entitled, Pride and Prejudice Without Zombies. The group will be reading Jane Austen’s own words. Not some mash up. Not a sequel. And, as far as I am concerned, my favorite book of all time. When Laurel Ann asked me to contribute my [...]
Seen Over the Ether: Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Greer Garson, Jennifer Ehle, Pride and Prejudice 1940, Pride and Prejudice 1995 on April 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
David Shipman wrote in his 1996 obituary for Greer Garson: On her return to Hollywood she was forced into the studio’s chosen image – a New York sophisticate, jagged with sophistication in huge hats – squabbling and making up with Robert Taylor in Remember? But her Mrs Chipping was uppermost in executive minds when casting [...]
How Helen Jerome’s ‘Pride and Prejudice: A Sentimental Comedy in Three Acts’ Ties in With Anna Massey, Mrs. Norris of Mansfield Park
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Pride and Prejudice, Regency World, tagged Adrienne Allen, Anna Massey, Celia Johnson, Elizabeth Bennet, Helen Jerome, Jane Austen Plays, Pride and Prejudice Play, Raymond Massey on January 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The 1935 production of Pride and Prejudice: A Sentimental Comedy Written in Three Acts, written by Helen Jerome and played on Broadway, featured Adrienne Allen, an English actress, as Elizabeth Bennet. Miss Allen, a slender blonde, had been successful in London and Broadway stage productions, such as Private Lives with Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, when [...]
The Marriage Mart: A Romantic Ending to an Unromantic Beginning
Posted in jane austen, Marriage, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Customs, Regency Life, tagged Aristocrats, Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Second Duke of Richmond on July 6, 2008 | 13 Comments »
There was nothing romantic about marriage in England before the 17th Century. The institution was viewed as a means of securing or advancing the family fortune. Alliances through marriage were arranged by parents; offspring were regarded as pawns; and couples were often engaged and wed while they were still children. By the 18th and 19th [...]
The secrets of preserving one’s beauty in the 19th Century
Posted in jane austen, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Etiquette, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Regency beauty regiment, Regency Fashion on May 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter Six [...]
Celia Johnson, the Forgotten Elizabeth Bennet
Posted in Celia Johnson, jane austen, tagged Celia Johnson, Elizabeth Bennet, Helen Jerome, Jane Austen Plays, Pride and Prejudice on March 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As I researched material for yesterday’s post about Pride and Prejudice 2005, I ran across several articles that listed the actresses who played Elizabeth Bennet during the 20th century. These lists (click here and here) are excellent, but because they concentrate on films, they largely miss the contribution of one important actress, Celia Johnson, a [...]
Pride and Prejudice 2005: To Assuage Your PBS Withdrawal Symptoms
Posted in jane austen, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen Movies, Keira Knightley, Masterpiece Classic, Matthew Macfadyen, Pride and Prejudice on March 1, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The PBS Masterpiece Classic airing of the three installments of Pride and Prejudice 1995 is over, and Emma (with Kate Beckinsale) won’t be shown until March 23rd. For those of you experiencing Jane Austen viewer withdrawal symptoms, visit the Jane Austen blog from KCTS 9 to catch up with their insights. Or you may choose [...]
Pride and Prejudice Economics: Or Why a Single Man with a Fortune of £4,000 Per Year is a Desirable Husband
Posted in Film adaptation, jane austen, Money in Regency, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy's income, Netherfield, Pride & Prejudice 1995, Regency World, tagged British Inheritance Laws, Cost of Living in Regency England, Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, jane austen blogs, Masterpiece Classic, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Darcy's Wealth, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Finance, The Bennets, The Complete Jane Austen on February 10, 2008 | 29 Comments »
A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls! – Mrs. Bennet on Mr. Bingley’s income, Pride and Prejudice, Volume One, Chapter One One of the hardest concepts for today’s readers to grasp in Jane Austen’s novels are the economic realities of the times. What [...]
Pride and Prejudice, 1995: Some Fun Facts & Information
Posted in Film adaptation, Film review, jane austen, Jeniffer Ehle, Mr.Darcy, Pride & Prejudice 1995, tagged Colin Firth, Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, jane austen blogs, Jane Austen's Novels, Jane Austen's World, Masterpiece Classic, PBS Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice on February 8, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Oh what a fun site this is! Its creator has assembled a host of interesting facts about P&P ’95, some of which are highlighted below: Jane Austen figured largely in the BAFTA television award ceremony 1996. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth’s perfomances as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and Benjamin Whitrow’s portrayal of long-suffering Mr [...]
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