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Your Elizabeth is a joy. I will look up the artist.
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"Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, who cares for all the crinkling of the pie" is a quote from The Art of Cookery by William King, 1709. Of course, I did not recognize it when I read the Bradley's book in 2010. The "thrice brinded cat" I got …
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@dazzlerdream In looking at portraits that might have fit Austen's mental image of Elizabeth and were of the period, George Henry Harlow was the only artist I happened upon who used a lot of yellow fabric in pictures of women. Here are a few: …
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@dazzlerdream,@Gracie_DeForest: Dazzler dream: I think your idea for remodeling and expanding Pemberley allows for plenty of screen variation: Like most houses I would imagine it was added on to over time, and that idea makes me think, it would be…
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Another horse in the Darcy stakes is John Parker III, 1st Earl of Morley. Here are three pictures of him at different ages:
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This portrait of Sir Humphry Davy as a young man of 25 in 1803 by Henry Howard slides in as a Darcy portrait in Pemberley choice. I like this one because a later portrait of Davy by Thomas Lawrence painted around 1821 four years after Austen's death…
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I've chosen Tom Lefroy for Bingley, not Darcy. This is based on Austen's brief relationship with Lefroy which ended when he hurriedly departed her neighborhood. As described in the letter I read, this sounded a lot like the way Bingley suddenly leav…
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In the picture gallery at Pemberley, Elizabeth sees a smiling portrait of Darcy painted when he was younger, so I'll present some candidates when I relocate them. I had several picked out then became busy. An Austen letter, one of the very few I ha…
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When Wentworth Woodhouse was on the market recenlty, a newspaper quoted the sales agent: "“From Darcy’s point of view,” says Crispin Holborow , head of country houses at Savills, “it has the most incredible marble saloon. There are very few to compa…
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Literary Austen sleuths associate Pemberley with Chatsworth House or with Wentworth Woodhouse. There may be other favored locations. Those are the two I have discovered. Janine Barchas proposed the Wentworth Woodhouse entry in the Pemberley sweepsta…
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I came across the Burney portrait on the Chawton House Library website while idly seeking what might be in Pemberley's library, a collection that Jane in PIP and Darcy in P&P tell us was "the work of many generations." As a matter of whimsy, I a…
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Below is a portrait of Fanny Burney, circle of Thomas Lawrence.(I have no idea how I managed to mess up the board's quotation system.)
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This is a line worthy of Austen herself: "[S]howing a father with so many shocking flaws would reflect badly on the family line, where as having a silly mother is almost expected and nobody thinks too ill of it." Are you quoting from one of Austen's…
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I am as interested in what books might be in the library as in the paintings; however, I am digressing from books back to pictures as I have come across this 1822 painting, the Highland Family, by Sir David Wilkie which the Darcys could have acquire…
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The Comte de Buffon was guillotined in 1794. Here is a cat illustration from the 38 volume set:
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I want to veer away from paintings for a moment and consider the libraries of great houses. Pemberley's library is a treasure trove; in addition to [spoiler] the wonderful squint and astrolabe [/spoiler] the books themselves are rife with possibilit…
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I have to admit that it always annoyed me as well about Bingley, as I am very close to my own sister, and having him intervene like that was frustrating. Although as a whole I think Jane Austen was trying to show the difference in rank in Engli…
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When Georgiana was a child, she and Wickham were friends. Thereafter, she consents to elope with him while visiting a seaside resort in the company of Mrs. Younge. I suspect that he first renewed his acquaintance with Georgiana while she was at scho…
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In perusing, I noticed then failed to add that Georgiana herself attended school, probably uncommon for the period and certainly for someone of her station, then at 15 she was set-up with her own establishment. In order to do that, Mr.Darcy employed…
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Thanks for the hint. After searching in vain for an Ainsley and an Ansley, I finally found Mrs. Annesley who is the amiable companion of Georgiana Darcy. Nice Mrs. Annesley had faded from my memory completely, overshadowed as she was by the perfidio…
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On the advantages of the double doors is this Cruikshank print:
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In terms of unseen actors, I enjoyed the governess whose name I forget as a plot device, Mrs. Reynolds the cook with at least 8 hands, Hogarth the head stableman, and the invisible groom.
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Third Floor Ballroom: Came over from Great Britain with the rest of the early colonists is my bet. I'll be surprised if the answer is otherwise. Ballroom at Pemberley: It occurs to me that we do not know anything about the wing that fronts the main …
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A ballroom does not have to be on the ground floor, and there you have the sum total of my knowledge on the subject of ballrooms in large houses. This makes a ballroom between the family wing and the guest wing a possibility. Ground Floor: Another …
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@dazzlerdream Thanks for the photographs and the floor plan. Very thoughtful. While playing PIP, every time I reentered Pemberley I wondered about the floor plan and what lay beyond closed doors and corners I could not turn.
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@dazzledream Have you thought of reading Fanny Burney? Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress came out in 1782. There are several other writers you might enjoy. I'll edit and add some. I thought I had found some time this morning but I'm wrong, so I'll e…
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I look forward to the sidesaddles in February and wonder if the top pommel will be the tuning fork style that cradled the rider's top leg in a U-shaped hook and looks appallingly dangerous to my untutored eye because the rider's leg could remain in …
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@Gracie_DeForest remarked that the goal was to create a somewhat timeless world. Works for me. Anachronisms that add depth and beauty in terms of visuals, back story (game world history), sound, character, and puzzles delight me. I am glad to accept…