Mr. Darcy’s Secret is Jane Odiwe’s third Jane Austen sequel for Sourcebooks. The story picks up after the Darcys’ marriage and Elizabeth’s introduction as Lady of the Manor. Lizzy is a quick study, for it is not easy for someone to pick up on all the intricacies of managing such a great house as Pemberley, but [...]
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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 Austen’s Mr. Darcy Smells So Divine!
Posted in jane austen, Popular culture, tagged darcin, Mr. Darcy, Pheromone, science on June 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have always known that Mr. Darcy is a fine man. Now scientists have proof. In scientific lingo: The pheromone that attracts female mice to the odour of a particular male has been identified. Named ‘darcin’ by researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology(after Darcy, the attractive hero [...]
Lost in Austen
Posted in jane austen, Popular culture, tagged Lost in Austen, Lost in Austen Episode Three, Mr. Darcy on September 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Click here for the review of Lost in Austen, Episode 3. Meanwhile, enjoy one of the many visual jokes this film makes of other JA movie adaptations.
Every Savage Can Dance: A Few Thoughts About Dancing in Jane Austen’s Novels, Most Particularly Pride & Prejudice
Posted in jane austen, Manners, Mr. Bingley, Music, Pride & Prejudice 1995, tagged jane austen blogs, Masterpiece Classic, Mr. Darcy, PBS Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Dance, Regency Era Society, Regency Etiquette, Regency Manners on February 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Rowlandson illustration from Wikipedia ‘What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.’ ‘Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every [...]
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 [...]
Undressing Mr. Darcy
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on July 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Be still my beating heart! I found another article about Mr. Darcy. Read this wonderful 2005 online article from Parameter Magazine about the clothes Mr. Darcy would wear and how they are made. Here is a quote from the website: Do not remove your waistcoat, Mr Darcy! To be seen in shirtsleeves was considered positively [...]
Rain Scene: Darcy and Elizabeth
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sure most MM fans have seen this clip of Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley when, as Elizabeth, she rejects Mr. Darcy’s proposal. Click on this link, and then the “hot rain scene” link. You will need Real Player or a Windows Media Player. The author of this post was only 13 at the time [...]
Our Ideal Mr. Darcy Is …
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My dear Lizzie, The battle has ended. It was touch and go for a time, but then my most ardent admirers voted en masse and I pulled ahead once and for all. However, lest you think I am gloating, I believe my opponent is a worthy young man. MacFadyen has not enjoyed my years of [...]
A gentle reminder …
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… that voting ends at midnight EST U.S. The Battle of the Mr. Darcys has been raging for almost one week and it has been a fierce one. However, I believe that during this process many die hard fans have come to admire both actors and their portrayal of our dashing hero.
Deadline for the Mr. Darcy Battle
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Voting ends at midnight EST USA on Wednedsay, June 27th. This one’s a nail biter! May the best man win. (Ahem, I vote for … read my comments in the comment sections.)
As we await the Mr. Darcy Battle outcome
Posted in Popular culture, tagged Mr. Darcy on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…for your delectation, the BBC Drama Pride and Prejudice site provides fans of the 1995 P&P version with a complete and comprehensive site of the series. Indeed, Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle fans would be proud. Click here to enter the site. Here is the Internet Movie Database Site with more of Colin and Jennifer. [...]
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- Five Regency tea cups: The book is not perfect (few books are), but it was well worth its purchase and possesses many outstanding qualities that makes it stand head and shoulders above its counterparts.
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