My grandmother had a friend who had an English husband. I had known them for years, when one day at lunch the wife turned to her husband and said that she found his investiture papers when she was cleaning out his desk. I got so excited that the husband was a knight, although he couldn't wait to change the subject. From then on I addressed him as Sir Sidney when we met, and he would get flustered and shake his head. I'm glad to find out I was addressing him correctly!
Christopher Guest is/was a lord of some variety - so Jamie Lee Curtis has attended the opening of parliament, bedecked in ermine robes! I think he renounced his title though.
Fun fact: Julie Andrews was a featured singer of “God Save the King” to George VI in 1948 at age 13. It is on UA-cam. Such an amazing voice even at a young age.
I don't see that. Many perfectly ordinary houses in England go by a name to this day. Read Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie. I saw very small houses in rural areas that had names that made me think that they were businesses, but they were private homes.
@@edennis8578It's not really 'having the name' part that's pretentious though, it's the name of the house/estate being _his_ name. The Darcy estate isn't called "Darcy Lodge/Hall/Whatever", even the Elliot estate (Persuasion) is not called "Elliot Hall", and that man couldn't be more vain if he tried! I think naming the estate after yourself was considered a bit pretentious/"low class"
I used to have a sword shaped letter opener (I actually used I as a hair stick). Something like that would be fun to have and convenient to keep on your desk.
Do you mean Miss Honey in Mathilda? OMG she DOES!! 🤩🤩 I loved that movie as a child, and Miss Honey is such a GEM!!! Ellie Dashwood is now and forevermore the new Miss Honey of the UA-cams!!! *Here's my formal curtsy : 🧎♀️
I could see the widowed Mrs B living with Mary and her husband but with an allowance provided by Jane snd Lizzy. That way she remains near Mrs Phillips and her friends and the older girls help Mary out for looking after their mother
@@marylut6077That would be very unlikely due to the unsettled status of the Wickhams - though it could work if Darcy and Elizabeth had provided Lydia with a 'cottage' while Wickham was in India or wherever. I can't see the military authorities granting Mrs Bennet housing in the barracks where military wives without separate homes lived! By the way, this reminds me of the episode of Sharpe, the Napoleonic drama. In 'Sharpe's Regiment' Sharpe returns to England to investigate recruitment up north. One of the officers he has to deal with up there is George Wickham! Lydia doesn't appear, and the show doesn't actually STATE it's the same Wickham, but that was the intent. And what happens to him at the end of the episode is supremely satisfying and exactly what we all might expect would happen to him eventually! Highly recommend.
As Mary said after Sybil pitied Aunt Rosamund, saying she felt sorry for her: "I don’t. All alone with plenty of money and a house in Eton Square? I can’t imagine anything better."
I loved Sir Remus announcing himself at the end! I first had to make sure it wasn't one of the cats in my house. Absolutely deserves his knighthood for Serviced to the Public!
You do a great job of reading, but especially explaining the Regency era. (Those are ur videos that i've watched so far.) I love the time periods of Regency & Victorian Era's, reading & good literature, & history. I also live having actual books. I love the smell of books, the feel of the pages, & turning each page as u get farther & farther in the story.
@@EllieDashwood I keep thinking about the question of where would Mrs Bennett live once Mr Bennett is gone and I think I figured it out. Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy would convince Mr Collins that he should rent his inherited property to Mrs Bennett at a higher than normal rate with two benefits to him. 1. He simply CANNOT deprive Lady Catherine De Bourgh of his valuable services as rector. 2. He's earning additional income for his growing family. This really strokes the pride of Mr Collins and keeps Mrs Bennett in a place far away from Lizzie, Jane, and Kitty. She would be close to family and community that knows her and for some reason like her enough to keep her company.
Excellent stream!!! Enjoy it tremendously. Also, your reading of P&P suffuses the text with rare depth of genuine emotion, which makes listening a truly exceptional delight. And of course all the Regency facts are a blast! 💛
It's a turbulent time for me rn, so I come here to relax and calm down. Something about you reading to us, no matter how much you "stumble". Thank you for the consistency
@@EllieDashwood you're welcome :) By the way, I'm taking a break off social media for this month so I'll be only here for now. I also changed my handle (I was yvargas52 before).
If you’d like to see some regency court dresses, a few costube creators recently made them. Lady Rebecca Fashions and Bernadette Banner both made one, for example. Wow, what an interesting style.
I'm loving these chapter-by-chapter videos! ❤️ I've missed the lives so far - I guess on account of the time difference, as I'm in the UK. On which note... As a Brit, I honestly didn't pick up on an English accent anywhere in your reading - Mrs Bennet or otherwise 😆 - but that's OK ❤
Awww! Time differences are the worst, but I’m so glad you’re enjoying it in replay! 😃 In this video, I really didn’t do the accent at all. I was suppressing it. 😄 If you watch previous weeks, then you might hear it more. Or maybe it’s just my American viewers who notice it. I’ve gotten both comments that they love it or they think I need to stop sounding British when I read. It has mixed reviews. 🧐😄
Off (specific) topic, but I highly recommend Claudia Gray's Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney mystery series. It's not science fiction or fantasy - just a continuation of Austen's novels under the assumption that the Darcys, Knightleys, Tilneys, etc. simply exist in the same reality (e.g. Mr. Knightley and Mr. Darcy are school friends). The eldest son of the Dracys and the daughter of the Tilneys solve murders - discreetly, fairly and decently. Great atmosphere and written in the tone and language of Austen. Three books are already out.
In Death Comes To Pemberly by mystery author PD James you have a similar assumption about the shared universe, but she keeps sneaking in into the main story, which is the D'Arcy Bennet and Bingley families some years after the end of P and P and the other novels. It is fun to see how Mr. Wickham has had a job with the father and daughter of Persuasion, based on his flattery talents, but gets canned when he pushes it too far, for just one example!
I am rather taken with the exciting novel : "Mr Darcy, vampyre!" Now I'm probably going to spoil it for you, but I will just say that immediately following Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam's marriage, events unfold that reveal Mr Darcy to be....... a vampyre!
Ellie, I have just been given “The Royal House of Britain An Enduring Dynasty” by The Rev. W. M. H. Milner M.A. 12th edition 1952. He is arguing that the Imperial Crown of Britain and the Sovereigns who wear other are linearly descended from the old Bible Kings. This is going to be a stretch for me to follow his arguments as I am not a history scholar - I have picked up some scraps from biographies. Quite fun.
Considering how royal families have always imtermarried and kept track of their lineage, that's not too implausible. The British royal family is closely related to the Greek, and Greece was part of the same Roman Empire as Israel - intermarriage back then would also make sense between two captive powers trying to build strength to get out from under Rome's thumb. Sounds like an interesting book!
@@cmm5542 Except for geography, that might work. Barely. But only through several generations and obviously a change of religion or two. But this was a common theory that royals put out and still do, the Japanese monarch claims descent from the Sun Goddess. The last Ethiopian kings said they were Soloman's descendants through the Queen of Sheba, at least that had some plausibility in regards to proximity!
Re: The mayor thing, things haven't really changed. To this day, money an connections speak louder than anything else. I guess you don't have to wait for people to die anymore, though.
I loved this format and this video, you are so charming. Your content is precious❤ I feel like if you were to do anything related to Downton Abbey, your views would explode. At any rate, I wish you great luck and success.
Mrs Bennett usually unfairly portrayed as older mindless busybody, but she is mid50s, attractive, required to find titled or landed gentry husbands for her 5 daughters.
Well, not REQUIRED. It wouldn't hurt her daughters to marry clergymen or lawyers - which is what presumably happens to Mary and Kitty. That's not a step down for them - Jane and Lizzie were a step UP. And that's Mrs Bennet's issue - she's a social climber. She is the daughter of a lawyer herself; her sister married another lawyer and her brother is in trade. Mrs Bennet managed to get herself married into the gentry, just barely. Mr Bennet's estate is very small and entailed (which Mrs Bennet did not even look into before her marriage like a sensible woman would have) and has no higher connections. The Bennet girls were not at all entitled or required to make the 'high' matches their mother desired for them. That's what infuriates Lady Catherine and Miss Bingley so. Hypergamy is a thing and ladies marrying up is as old as the hills. But if even the daughter of a knight can marry a clergyman; a mere 'gentleman's daughter' does not NEED the nephew of an Earl to make a good match. Lizzie could have married someone else in trade introduced to her by her uncle Gardiner, and been happy! But that wouldn't make as good a story.
The older I become, the more insight into, and empathy for Mrs Bennet I feel that I gain. Her worries - chiefly regarding the pressing need for good marriages for her 5 daughters - were very real. Small wonder, given the circumstances, that this concern became an obsession, and caused overwhelming anxiety (her 'poor nerves') to become such a dominant state of mind / character trait of hers. I think she was in fact probably more like early 40s - mid, at the latest - as I believe she married very young, and I think we can assume her first child came along fairly soon.
@@KatieRae_AmidCrisisI'm afraid I cannot agree on the legitimacy of Mrs Bennet's fears. I feel too often people forget Pride and Prejudice is a NOVEL, not a documentary. The first point of good fiction writing is conflict. The Bennett sisters' situation as five daughters (a 3% chance) in an entailed family (which was already being seen as an outdated concept that should be done away with entirely), is EXTREMELY unlikely and invented for drama. We are not supposed to read it thinking 'this is what all women in the past had to deal with.' Even other fiction, such as Cranford, shows a very different picture and society as a whole is much more complex. P&P would never have been popular in its own time if it was an exact pattern of everyday circumstances; that would have been completely boring to a Regency audience. We need to remember this is EXAGGERATED for dramatic effect. Jane Austen writes Mrs Bennett as silly and selfish. Not that she is seen by others that way, that she IS. We're not given any basis to suppose her concerns are real or consistent with the average Regency gentlewoman's situation. She wants her daughters to marry far above their station. Being the wife of a clerk like ultimately happened to Mary, would not have been the end of the world. She pushes her daughters to accept only the best instead of being practical. It works out because it's a STORY, but Regency mothers would not have been looking at this story and thinking 'I need to panic more about getting my daughter married to a much richer man because she won't be happy living on the interest of £500 despite the fact that that is more than what 75%of the population have to live on.' And even Mrs Bennett is not upset because she thinks her daughters won't have ENOUGH money as spinsters. They would. She's upset because she thinks the entail is unfair to them, which it is but sitting around complaining isn't how you change the law. She's the daughter of a lawyer and her brother-in-law is one; a sensible woman would have been using these connections to fight the entail or negotiate SOME fairer settlement with Mr Collins. Mr Bennet was too lazy to do it himself, but another sort of woman could have pushed him into it. Mrs Bennet is genuinely paranoid about her daughters' future, but in actual non-fictional historical context she doesn't have an excuse to be.
And in the book it is said, that Mrs Bennet is not good at managing the money so she lives in a more expensive style than they should. Mr Bennet probably tried to reign her in in her earlier years, though it is said that they both didn’t think to save money, because they thought they would get a son. But I would say that Mr Bennet it rather less likely to overspend than Mes Bennet, because though he probably likes living a leisurely life as much as the next person, but he wasn’t as keen on making a show of himself like his wife. If Mrs Bennet had spent less money on an expensive table, treats for Lydia, expensive dresses etc. maybe the daughters would have a little more of a dowry than they had. Or she could have paid a governess with that money or more likely both?
Nowhere in P&P Sir William is characterized as a rich man. Tolerable fortune is not the same as big fortune. Somewhere else in the book it is mentioned that Charlotte could not count on good dowry. This was probably why she was not married by 27. Now, the father of the Bingley siblings made a really good fortune. And, though somewhat unrelated, I could never understand how a 27 year old Charlotte could be a very intimate friend of Elizabeth, who was only 20. Can anyone propose an explanation?
Age was not as big a barrer to friendship in the Regency. As a formerly homeschooled person, it's a lot easier to understand. You did not spend the majority of your time in a classroom with people of your own age - even if you attended boarding school, 'forms' were arranged by ability rather than by age. Darcy is six years older than Bingley. Elizabeth did not even go to school. Her circle of acquaintance is her village, and she would have grown up as I did, being accustomed to interaction with people of all ages. In those circumstances, it becomes a matter of complete indifference how old your friends are compared to yourself! It is simply no longer a criteria. Charlotte also probably entered society later as her father had only recently given up trade. So she and Lizzie were probably on the same level in that regard. Ladies do not tend to tell their ages, so if Elizabeth was 16 and Charlotte 22 at the first ball they attended together, neither probably asked the other's age as they began their acquaintance.
In a rural town like Meraton, there would not have been so many families who owned land. Charlotte lived nearby and the family owned land thus would have been viewed as a suitable person for friendship.
Can you cover how "livings" worked and expectations of clergy? (Sorry if you already have, and I missed it. I think I verified that you haven't so far. ) I'm re-reading all of Jane Austin's books and realized that even after all these readings, I'm missing details that would enrich my understanding.
I always wondered what happed to his business and why he did not think it necessary to keep it for his oldest son. What did they live on? And in my world, Mr Bennett outlived his wife, remarries and has a sons
He undoubtedly sold it and put the money into the estate. Inheriting the estate would be much better for his son than a mere business! Status! (And estates made money from the tenants/land crops and livestock. That was what ALL gentry lived on. Hope this helps 🙂)
Sir William Lucas always seems like a bit of a buffoon in the story and most adaptations, but if he actually managed to be that successful in trade, politicking, and earning even a modicum of attention from the crown, then he must have actually been pretty shrewd and capable. I guess he REALLY mellowed out once he achieved all his dreams?
I think we don't get the full picture of him. It was considered impolite to discuss politics and business in front of ladies as most women were not involved in those fields, and it's kind of rude to discuss things you know other people aren't into (some upper-class women, like Lady Catherine, WOULD have been engaged with politics and business, but in those small circles you tended to know who was and wasn't). Sir William probably is not so much boring as BORED. Fashion and society would have always been more his wife's business than his own. He clearly enjoys a good party, like Mr Weston in Emma, but he didn't have the upbringing for 'gentle society' and is too old to play catch-up now. And he doesn't really need to as he has earned his estate and title. Alone with Mr Bennet and the other men in Meryron, they probably discuss estate business, local politics and the war quite intelligently. But they look silly trying to discuss the marriage market and court etiquette! Those fields were controlled by the ladies and men usually kept out of it.
My understanding is the Prince of Wales had a following of liberals called Whigs. The King’s supporters were called Tories. The King was not happy with the behaviour of his son, so he was drumming up support (and maybe cash) by ennobling people. Almacks was a Whig club. The Duke of Wellington was denied membership. My copy of “The Kings and Queens of England” states of King George III “His mind had always been weak and vindictive, and after 1811 he was at times both blind and insane.” My copy is from 1979. They could say it that way then. He did have a trying upbringing though.
I absolutely love your video's❤ though i would like to give you a tip as a someone who's studying film. The position you have your camera in makes you look quite tiny! I would suggest to either zoom in a little bit, in move your desk forward (if possible), so that you are the focus of the shot. Right now your head reaches the middle of the screen but its actually nicer to look at if you eyes are in the upper third of the shot (rule of thirds) like in the shots where you are not at your desk. Again just wanted to give you a tip, if you like the way it looks this way feel free to ignore my yapping lol
From the estate. Estates were huge farms. Mostly you rented out the land and made income that way, but you could also keep livestock which could be very lucrative, especially sheep. And much of your food would be provided by your own gardens, orchards and hunting grounds - imagine having no grocery bills! Your rents would pay for the upkeep, clothing, children's settlements, and luxuries on a really good estate (too many small estates went into debt over spending on luxuries when the money SHOULD have been spent on the tenants' cottage repairs and children's inheritances.)
@@nadyaakins8202I think it was. When Lady Catherine scorns the Bennett's estate as 'very small,' Mrs Bennet immediately points out it is 'much larger than Sir William Lucas's.' Probably exaggerated but definitely it's not a big park. And Charlotte has many younger siblings - some of whom are still children incurring educational costs, and dividing the fortune between all of them would leave each with very little. Charlotte's brothers are deeply relieved on her marriage, because the Lucas' estate isn't entailed. Like the Morlands in Northanger Abbey, they can pretty much divide it up however they want among their children. But with so many children still at home to provide for, they're unlikely to put a lot into dowries and settlements. If Charlotte marries someone who will inherit an estate like Mr Collins, her parents will probably still leave her SOMETHING - she is still their daughter! But as they know she is taken care of financially, her siblings' portions can be larger.
“Dame” is the title for a female knight, such as “Dame Agatha Christie”, who was made a knight in 1971 by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. Nowadays knighthoods are often bestowed on people who have made notable contributions to society in many different fields.
Town councils here in England REALLY haven't changed all that much in how they operate since the Regency! 😆 Yeah, technically everyone can vote for them now, but hardly anyone does and it's essentially a popularity contest (the show Yes, Minster, which is as much a documentary as a comedy, goes into all that a lot!) My council persists in doing things like selling land on floodplains for housing estates despite years of lobbying against it by the majority of the town. I have no clue how we let these people get elected in the first place, and would happily accept someone like Sir William Lucas instead! He'd be more likely to accommodate what the populace actually asked for, with his occupation of 'being civil to all the world!' 😂
Definitely being a Knight back then gave you a certain gravitas. Just by being honored with a knighthood it immediately made one a member of the gentry even without property. Sir William has done well for himself, a relatively important man in the community.
I can't help but think part of the lady thing stemmed from there being far more ladies than lords. So many ladies are obliged to marry down instead of up because only one man per generation is inheriting his father's (or mothers, or aunts or cousins) lordship title. Even if the title of a knights wife is dame, many of them would have married legitimate ladies by birth. Even the others would mostly be women of relatively high birth, wealthy family, and gentle manners. After a while it would get confusing about how to address this knight's wife or that without a family history upon introduction, and to keep in mind who was which every time you meet. As they're all in polite society, it would be easier and more gracious to allow that freedom of address, as you're less likely to offend a real Lady by accidentally calling her "Dame" and more likely to compliment a Dame if you call her by "Lady" so it's really a win-win all around. Then knighthoods started getting handed out like candy and women of god knows what birth were getting elevated so real Ladies got especially affronted about having to share a noble title with a farmer's/miller's/butcher's daughter.
Good point about the gender imbalance. Austen says the same thing at the end of Mansfield Park about Mary Crawford, still single despite her 20,000 pounds. Mary's wish is to marry an heir, a first-born -- but there are only so many heirs to go around. Austen suggests she will probably have to settle for a "younger son" without an estate, and with a lower income than her own.
True, but there were other options. Ladies of title but no fortune could marry untitled but wealthy gentry - like Darcy's mother. (It's clear his uncle the Earl, Colonel Fitzwilliam's father, doesn't actually have much to pass on besides his title.) Then there were the professions - the church, military and even the law. Only VERY high echelons in those fields (bishops, generals) were suitable for ladies, but they existed, and were mostly made up of 'younger sons' from the gentry and nobility. Like Henry Tilney and Captain Wentworth. Especially Wentworth. He's not initially on the same level asl Anne, a gentry lady, but he gets promoted to it. Frankly, had Wickham had any moral character he would not have been a bad match for Lydia; he could have used his legacy from Mr Darcy's father to purchase a commission and worked his way up to high-ranking officer if he had chosen.
How to address a person correctly with their family history in mind. In Persuasion Sir Walter Elliot has a book called the baronetage with all the baronetcies and their family history and family members listed at time of printing and in Wives and daughters the second Mrs Gibson has a book, the peerage, probably of the same kind with all the peers‘ families in it. And happenings at court were probably published in the newspapers, because when she asked Mr Collins wether Miss de Burgh was presented at court, she also said that she never read her name mentioned in the newspapers in relation to court.
I think they turned Lady back to Dame which it was previously was when women received the honour in their own right in the last century which was a lovely thing.
I imagine Mr Bennet living to 99 at the very least! Which from my calculation of Mr Bennet's age at the time the book is set being 45 - 55 - it would be a long time before Mr Collins could get his mitts on Longbourne. Mrs Bennet would pop off at about 60 because she is a nervy stressed woman and that cannot be good for a prolonged life - leaving Mr Bennet plenty of years to enjoy his library and reduce his household expenses due his own fairly modest pleasures and no young ladies to burden his purce. He might even have a substantial inheritance to pass on to his daughters or their children. And maybe Mr Collins was hit by Lady De Bourgh's carriage when he rushed out at night to bow to her as she passed by. So Mr Bennet might invite Charlotte and her possible son - the inheritor of the estate - to come live with him - if that was allowed? She's a sensible quiet person and would be good company for him as he ages - and it would be close to her family. The son could be educated at Mr Bennet's expense, so as to grow up with a better character than his father. Not that Mr Bennet character is great - but he is kind when he troubles himself - and has more sense of himself that Mr Collins. Sorry, got carried away, but it is something I've have pondered on, occasionally 😊 Also, Remis isn't any old knight - cats are born born Emperors and that's that!
And then Mr. Bennet and the widowed Charlotte fell in love, got married, and made a son who inherited the estate instead of Charlotte's first son by Mr. Collins.
This is splendid. Thank you. I will be thinking of the unfortunate Reverend Collins's accident - abd smiling- whenever I feel like extending my life with laughter! And my cat has jumped up to the desk to insist that SHE is in fact the Empress!
I wonder if the late Mr Bennet was the councilman whose death freed the way for the then Mr Lucas. Our Mr Bennet would have been completely uninterested and willing to allow the first to put their hat in the ring to take it on (I'm guessing he'd have had first dibs even though it wasn't technically hereditary).
There IS still a dress code for certain events for men in the UK which requires breeches and shoes that look like black ballerinas (with bows!). You can see the royals in it but even there it has gently shifted to coat and tails for the ‘common’ guests
What age range do people generally place the young Lucas in? Because arguing for say, ten minutes, about how much wine you'd drink as a rich grown-up sounds like an 8-10-year-old kid to me.
I always assumed he was about 12. But it could be 10. The Lucases have many younger children besides Charlotte and Maria, and 'brothers' are mentioned so he could easily be the youngest or close to the youngest!
Hmm. I wouldn't mind being a knight in that era. Of course after shaving my head for seven years to raise money for pediatric cancer research through St. Baldrick's I just got a paper certificate in the mail proclaiming me a Knight of the Bald Table. It arrived today folded in a firm crease despite prominent "do not fold" instructions. Here in the USA, facetious titles get you no respect even fron the Postal Service. Overall it makes me glad knighthood isn't administered by the government here; they'd find a way to mess it up even more.
The only type of knighthood that is passed on to the next generation would be that of the baronet, a hybrid hereditary order that is between a knight and a baron.
Kitty did live with Elizabeth and married a 'clergyman near Pemberly' (probably the one who held the living Wickham had declined!). Mary stayed in Meryton and married one of 'her uncle Phillips' clerks' - as the Philippses don't appear to have any children, he and Mary probably took over the office and did a good practice; I can see Mary studying up on cases and helping with that! I have a feeling Mrs Bennet ended up living with the Bingleys or with Mary if her husband could afford it. Lydia definitely would not have had enough money to accommodate her mother as well, and Darcy would never have allowed it. He'd have taken his embarrassing mother-in-law himself before having it said Wickham did better by his relations!
Obviously birds are not mammals, but it's always the boys who are the fabulous, elaborate ones. Even in mammals, the boys have to show off for the girls. Only people have the girls all fancy😂
Idk I kiiiind of disagree with the idea that all Jane's characters are funny or charming even if they are bad. For example: Isabella and John Thorpe are THE WORST! I hate John more though! He's SUPER creepy and just terrible. I struggled to read that one because of him. 😅
In the words of Sir William, “Capital, capital!”
Order of the Rose level comment 🌹
I've always wondered what that meant
@@leahclo4857 Basically, how we'd say "great!" or "awesome!" today.
My grandmother had a friend who had an English husband. I had known them for years, when one day at lunch the wife turned to her husband and said that she found his investiture papers when she was cleaning out his desk. I got so excited that the husband was a knight, although he couldn't wait to change the subject. From then on I addressed him as Sir Sidney when we met, and he would get flustered and shake his head. I'm glad to find out I was addressing him correctly!
Christopher Guest is/was a lord of some variety - so Jamie Lee Curtis has attended the opening of parliament, bedecked in ermine robes! I think he renounced his title though.
Darcy getting to essentially jump the line outside of the club is the visual I needed 😂
😂 This visual needs to be in a modern-day P&P adaptation.
Fun fact: Julie Andrews was a featured singer of “God Save the King” to George VI in 1948 at age 13. It is on UA-cam. Such an amazing voice even at a young age.
Her step father had her up on stages from a VERY young age.
One of my favourite scenes in Pride and Prejudice is when Sir William and Mr Collins try to one up each other
Naming his home "Lucas Lodge" was the *actual* definition of an "upstart pretension" lol
I don't see that. Many perfectly ordinary houses in England go by a name to this day. Read Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie. I saw very small houses in rural areas that had names that made me think that they were businesses, but they were private homes.
@@edennis8578It's not really 'having the name' part that's pretentious though, it's the name of the house/estate being _his_ name.
The Darcy estate isn't called "Darcy Lodge/Hall/Whatever", even the Elliot estate (Persuasion) is not called "Elliot Hall", and that man couldn't be more vain if he tried! I think naming the estate after yourself was considered a bit pretentious/"low class"
I used to have a sword shaped letter opener (I actually used I as a hair stick). Something like that would be fun to have and convenient to keep on your desk.
Ooooo love that!!
I'm really liking this series. Plus, with your hair and cute dresses, it's really giving Miss Honey!
Awwww! Thank you! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it. 😃😊
Do you mean Miss Honey in Mathilda? OMG she DOES!! 🤩🤩 I loved that movie as a child, and Miss Honey is such a GEM!!! Ellie Dashwood is now and forevermore the new Miss Honey of the UA-cams!!!
*Here's my formal curtsy : 🧎♀️
I love that Mrs Bennet argued so earnestly with the kid. It says so much about her character. 😂
I could see the widowed Mrs B living with Mary and her husband but with an allowance provided by Jane snd Lizzy. That way she remains near Mrs Phillips and her friends and the older girls help Mary out for looking after their mother
Great solution!
I want sequel with Mrs B living with Lydia and grandkids while hubby is deployed
@@marylut6077That would be very unlikely due to the unsettled status of the Wickhams - though it could work if Darcy and Elizabeth had provided Lydia with a 'cottage' while Wickham was in India or wherever. I can't see the military authorities granting Mrs Bennet housing in the barracks where military wives without separate homes lived!
By the way, this reminds me of the episode of Sharpe, the Napoleonic drama. In 'Sharpe's Regiment' Sharpe returns to England to investigate recruitment up north. One of the officers he has to deal with up there is George Wickham! Lydia doesn't appear, and the show doesn't actually STATE it's the same Wickham, but that was the intent. And what happens to him at the end of the episode is supremely satisfying and exactly what we all might expect would happen to him eventually! Highly recommend.
I dont think she will outlive him with that nerve
The whole discussion today reminded me of Lady Rosamund Painswick in ‘Downton Abbey’. Her husband originated from traders.
As Mary said after Sybil pitied Aunt Rosamund, saying she felt sorry for her: "I don’t. All alone with plenty of money and a house in Eton Square? I can’t imagine anything better."
altho when the dowager was giving her a hard time about it Lady Ros reminder her that Marmaduke’s mother was the daughter of a baronet!
Ellie Dashwood, the Chief Investigative Officer for the Wounded Vanity Unit
I’m so happy to tune in every week to this. You’re doing great! 👏🏽
Awwww!!! Thank you so much for coming!!!
I loved Sir Remus announcing himself at the end! I first had to make sure it wasn't one of the cats in my house. Absolutely deserves his knighthood for Serviced to the Public!
You do a great job of reading, but especially explaining the Regency era. (Those are ur videos that i've watched so far.) I love the time periods of Regency & Victorian Era's, reading & good literature, & history. I also live having actual books. I love the smell of books, the feel of the pages, & turning each page as u get farther & farther in the story.
Technically, Joan Plowright was both a Lady (Sir Laurence Olivier got a Knighthood) and a Dame (for services to Drama).
I love this weekly book club!
Awwww! Yay!!!
@@EllieDashwood I keep thinking about the question of where would Mrs Bennett live once Mr Bennett is gone and I think I figured it out.
Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy would convince Mr Collins that he should rent his inherited property to Mrs Bennett at a higher than normal rate with two benefits to him.
1. He simply CANNOT deprive Lady Catherine De Bourgh of his valuable services as rector.
2. He's earning additional income for his growing family.
This really strokes the pride of Mr Collins and keeps Mrs Bennett in a place far away from Lizzie, Jane, and Kitty. She would be close to family and community that knows her and for some reason like her enough to keep her company.
@@gwenp3450 Ahhh! This is such a brilliant solution!!!!
The Best People are of course the best people to decide who are the Best People!
This is SUCH a fun series! And this format with the clipped in videos is great 👍
Excellent stream!!! Enjoy it tremendously. Also, your reading of P&P suffuses the text with rare depth of genuine emotion, which makes listening a truly exceptional delight. And of course all the Regency facts are a blast! 💛
Awwww! Thank you so much!!!! That's so sweet. 😊
I love that Mrs Bennet was lowkey fighting with an actual child. It's very in line with her character but also hilarious to imagine
It's a turbulent time for me rn, so I come here to relax and calm down. Something about you reading to us, no matter how much you "stumble". Thank you for the consistency
I had to step away and missed the ending. Thank you for another fun and informative video. Good day to you as well, Sir Crabby Elderly Gentleman.
Sir Crabby says angry meow. Which is a sign of ultimate appreciation from him. Thanks so much for coming!
Thanks for sharing, Ellie! Loved the discussion today
Awww! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
@@EllieDashwood you're welcome :) By the way, I'm taking a break off social media for this month so I'll be only here for now. I also changed my handle (I was yvargas52 before).
If you’d like to see some regency court dresses, a few costube creators recently made them. Lady Rebecca Fashions and Bernadette Banner both made one, for example. Wow, what an interesting style.
Another excellent stream! Really enjoying these
Awww! I’m so glad!!!
I'm loving these chapter-by-chapter videos! ❤️ I've missed the lives so far - I guess on account of the time difference, as I'm in the UK. On which note... As a Brit, I honestly didn't pick up on an English accent anywhere in your reading - Mrs Bennet or otherwise 😆 - but that's OK ❤
Awww! Time differences are the worst, but I’m so glad you’re enjoying it in replay! 😃 In this video, I really didn’t do the accent at all. I was suppressing it. 😄 If you watch previous weeks, then you might hear it more. Or maybe it’s just my American viewers who notice it. I’ve gotten both comments that they love it or they think I need to stop sounding British when I read. It has mixed reviews. 🧐😄
I play Cthulhu Regency : a tabletop rpg, and tour videos help me a lot to set the ton and intrigues right. Thank you!
Nani? Now I’m intrigued!
Hi Ellie, please do North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell about rural vs manufacturing England.
And/or Middlemarch!
I could not be more excited about this series!!!! It's going to help so much with our homeschooling!!!! You're awesome Ellie!❤
My great great grandfather was knighted after rescuing people in the Arctic.
I wish I could catch the live. Or maybe figure out how to see the conversation comments. Sounds like fun.
Off (specific) topic, but I highly recommend Claudia Gray's Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney mystery series. It's not science fiction or fantasy - just a continuation of Austen's novels under the assumption that the Darcys, Knightleys, Tilneys, etc. simply exist in the same reality (e.g. Mr. Knightley and Mr. Darcy are school friends). The eldest son of the Dracys and the daughter of the Tilneys solve murders - discreetly, fairly and decently. Great atmosphere and written in the tone and language of Austen. Three books are already out.
In Death Comes To Pemberly by mystery author PD James you have a similar assumption about the shared universe, but she keeps sneaking in into the main story, which is the D'Arcy Bennet and Bingley families some years after the end of P and P and the other novels. It is fun to see how Mr. Wickham has had a job with the father and daughter of Persuasion, based on his flattery talents, but gets canned when he pushes it too far, for just one example!
I am rather taken with the exciting novel : "Mr Darcy, vampyre!"
Now I'm probably going to spoil it for you, but I will just say that immediately following Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam's marriage, events unfold that reveal Mr Darcy to be.......
a vampyre!
Your voice is so suiting I think I've found new videos I will fall asleep to.
Ellie, I have just been given “The Royal House of Britain An Enduring Dynasty” by The Rev. W. M. H. Milner M.A. 12th edition 1952. He is arguing that the Imperial Crown of Britain and the Sovereigns who wear other are linearly descended from the old Bible Kings. This is going to be a stretch for me to follow his arguments as I am not a history scholar - I have picked up some scraps from biographies. Quite fun.
Considering how royal families have always imtermarried and kept track of their lineage, that's not too implausible. The British royal family is closely related to the Greek, and Greece was part of the same Roman Empire as Israel - intermarriage back then would also make sense between two captive powers trying to build strength to get out from under Rome's thumb. Sounds like an interesting book!
@@cmm5542 Thank you. It is not an easy read. I suspect it assumes some knowledge I don’t have.
@@cmm5542 Except for geography, that might work. Barely. But only through several generations and obviously a change of religion or two. But this was a common theory that royals put out and still do, the Japanese monarch claims descent from the Sun Goddess. The last Ethiopian kings said they were Soloman's descendants through the Queen of Sheba, at least that had some plausibility in regards to proximity!
I can't wait to read this book
Re: The mayor thing, things haven't really changed. To this day, money an connections speak louder than anything else. I guess you don't have to wait for people to die anymore, though.
Somewhere there's a mention that Lucas Lodge is not as nice as Longbourne
Yes, I seem to remember it too. But it is shown as the opposite in the movie (P&P 1995).
I loved this format and this video, you are so charming. Your content is precious❤ I feel like if you were to do anything related to Downton Abbey, your views would explode. At any rate, I wish you great luck and success.
Mrs Bennett usually unfairly portrayed as older mindless busybody, but she is mid50s, attractive, required to find titled or landed gentry husbands for her 5 daughters.
Well, not REQUIRED. It wouldn't hurt her daughters to marry clergymen or lawyers - which is what presumably happens to Mary and Kitty. That's not a step down for them - Jane and Lizzie were a step UP. And that's Mrs Bennet's issue - she's a social climber. She is the daughter of a lawyer herself; her sister married another lawyer and her brother is in trade.
Mrs Bennet managed to get herself married into the gentry, just barely. Mr Bennet's estate is very small and entailed (which Mrs Bennet did not even look into before her marriage like a sensible woman would have) and has no higher connections. The Bennet girls were not at all entitled or required to make the 'high' matches their mother desired for them. That's what infuriates Lady Catherine and Miss Bingley so.
Hypergamy is a thing and ladies marrying up is as old as the hills. But if even the daughter of a knight can marry a clergyman; a mere 'gentleman's daughter' does not NEED the nephew of an Earl to make a good match. Lizzie could have married someone else in trade introduced to her by her uncle Gardiner, and been happy! But that wouldn't make as good a story.
The older I become, the more insight into, and empathy for Mrs Bennet I feel that I gain. Her worries - chiefly regarding the pressing need for good marriages for her 5 daughters - were very real. Small wonder, given the circumstances, that this concern became an obsession, and caused overwhelming anxiety (her 'poor nerves') to become such a dominant state of mind / character trait of hers.
I think she was in fact probably more like early 40s - mid, at the latest - as I believe she married very young, and I think we can assume her first child came along fairly soon.
@@KatieRae_AmidCrisisI'm afraid I cannot agree on the legitimacy of Mrs Bennet's fears. I feel too often people forget Pride and Prejudice is a NOVEL, not a documentary. The first point of good fiction writing is conflict. The Bennett sisters' situation as five daughters (a 3% chance) in an entailed family (which was already being seen as an outdated concept that should be done away with entirely), is EXTREMELY unlikely and invented for drama. We are not supposed to read it thinking 'this is what all women in the past had to deal with.' Even other fiction, such as Cranford, shows a very different picture and society as a whole is much more complex. P&P would never have been popular in its own time if it was an exact pattern of everyday circumstances; that would have been completely boring to a Regency audience. We need to remember this is EXAGGERATED for dramatic effect.
Jane Austen writes Mrs Bennett as silly and selfish. Not that she is seen by others that way, that she IS. We're not given any basis to suppose her concerns are real or consistent with the average Regency gentlewoman's situation. She wants her daughters to marry far above their station. Being the wife of a clerk like ultimately happened to Mary, would not have been the end of the world. She pushes her daughters to accept only the best instead of being practical. It works out because it's a STORY, but Regency mothers would not have been looking at this story and thinking 'I need to panic more about getting my daughter married to a much richer man because she won't be happy living on the interest of £500 despite the fact that that is more than what 75%of the population have to live on.'
And even Mrs Bennett is not upset because she thinks her daughters won't have ENOUGH money as spinsters. They would. She's upset because she thinks the entail is unfair to them, which it is but sitting around complaining isn't how you change the law. She's the daughter of a lawyer and her brother-in-law is one; a sensible woman would have been using these connections to fight the entail or negotiate SOME fairer settlement with Mr Collins. Mr Bennet was too lazy to do it himself, but another sort of woman could have pushed him into it. Mrs Bennet is genuinely paranoid about her daughters' future, but in actual non-fictional historical context she doesn't have an excuse to be.
And in the book it is said, that Mrs Bennet is not good at managing the money so she lives in a more expensive style than they should. Mr Bennet probably tried to reign her in in her earlier years, though it is said that they both didn’t think to save money, because they thought they would get a son. But I would say that Mr Bennet it rather less likely to overspend than Mes Bennet, because though he probably likes living a leisurely life as much as the next person, but he wasn’t as keen on making a show of himself like his wife.
If Mrs Bennet had spent less money on an expensive table, treats for Lydia, expensive dresses etc. maybe the daughters would have a little more of a dowry than they had. Or she could have paid a governess with that money or more likely both?
Nowhere in P&P Sir William is characterized as a rich man. Tolerable fortune is not the same as big fortune. Somewhere else in the book it is mentioned that Charlotte could not count on good dowry. This was probably why she was not married by 27. Now, the father of the Bingley siblings made a really good fortune.
And, though somewhat unrelated, I could never understand how a 27 year old Charlotte could be a very intimate friend of Elizabeth, who was only 20. Can anyone propose an explanation?
Age was not as big a barrer to friendship in the Regency. As a formerly homeschooled person, it's a lot easier to understand. You did not spend the majority of your time in a classroom with people of your own age - even if you attended boarding school, 'forms' were arranged by ability rather than by age. Darcy is six years older than Bingley.
Elizabeth did not even go to school. Her circle of acquaintance is her village, and she would have grown up as I did, being accustomed to interaction with people of all ages. In those circumstances, it becomes a matter of complete indifference how old your friends are compared to yourself! It is simply no longer a criteria.
Charlotte also probably entered society later as her father had only recently given up trade. So she and Lizzie were probably on the same level in that regard. Ladies do not tend to tell their ages, so if Elizabeth was 16 and Charlotte 22 at the first ball they attended together, neither probably asked the other's age as they began their acquaintance.
The girls also do home chores
In a rural town like Meraton, there would not have been so many families who owned land. Charlotte lived nearby and the family owned land thus would have been viewed as a suitable person for friendship.
Can you cover how "livings" worked and expectations of clergy? (Sorry if you already have, and I missed it. I think I verified that you haven't so far. ) I'm re-reading all of Jane Austin's books and realized that even after all these readings, I'm missing details that would enrich my understanding.
Btw I loved the cuts between live and video, it worked well for my ADHD ☺️☺️
Edit for spelling
I love your videos! :)
I always wondered what happed to his business and why he did not think it necessary to keep it for his oldest son. What did they live on? And in my world, Mr Bennett outlived his wife, remarries and has a sons
That would be a blast!
He undoubtedly sold it and put the money into the estate. Inheriting the estate would be much better for his son than a mere business! Status! (And estates made money from the tenants/land crops and livestock. That was what ALL gentry lived on. Hope this helps 🙂)
Sir William Lucas always seems like a bit of a buffoon in the story and most adaptations, but if he actually managed to be that successful in trade, politicking, and earning even a modicum of attention from the crown, then he must have actually been pretty shrewd and capable. I guess he REALLY mellowed out once he achieved all his dreams?
But he was boring.
I think we don't get the full picture of him. It was considered impolite to discuss politics and business in front of ladies as most women were not involved in those fields, and it's kind of rude to discuss things you know other people aren't into (some upper-class women, like Lady Catherine, WOULD have been engaged with politics and business, but in those small circles you tended to know who was and wasn't). Sir William probably is not so much boring as BORED. Fashion and society would have always been more his wife's business than his own. He clearly enjoys a good party, like Mr Weston in Emma, but he didn't have the upbringing for 'gentle society' and is too old to play catch-up now. And he doesn't really need to as he has earned his estate and title.
Alone with Mr Bennet and the other men in Meryron, they probably discuss estate business, local politics and the war quite intelligently. But they look silly trying to discuss the marriage market and court etiquette! Those fields were controlled by the ladies and men usually kept out of it.
My understanding is the Prince of Wales had a following of liberals called Whigs. The King’s supporters were called Tories. The King was not happy with the behaviour of his son, so he was drumming up support (and maybe cash) by ennobling people. Almacks was a Whig club. The Duke of Wellington was denied membership.
My copy of “The Kings and Queens of England” states of King George III “His mind had always been weak and vindictive, and after 1811 he was at times both blind and insane.” My copy is from 1979. They could say it that way then. He did have a trying upbringing though.
Lovin the outfits!
I absolutely love your video's❤ though i would like to give you a tip as a someone who's studying film. The position you have your camera in makes you look quite tiny! I would suggest to either zoom in a little bit, in move your desk forward (if possible), so that you are the focus of the shot. Right now your head reaches the middle of the screen but its actually nicer to look at if you eyes are in the upper third of the shot (rule of thirds) like in the shots where you are not at your desk. Again just wanted to give you a tip, if you like the way it looks this way feel free to ignore my yapping lol
I really enjoyed this video. I really like your dress too!
Arise Sir Remis the cat Dashwood! Great episode Ellie! I’d like to know, if Sir William quit trade, how is he making income then?
From the estate. Estates were huge farms. Mostly you rented out the land and made income that way, but you could also keep livestock which could be very lucrative, especially sheep. And much of your food would be provided by your own gardens, orchards and hunting grounds - imagine having no grocery bills! Your rents would pay for the upkeep, clothing, children's settlements, and luxuries on a really good estate (too many small estates went into debt over spending on luxuries when the money SHOULD have been spent on the tenants' cottage repairs and children's inheritances.)
@@cmm5542 Thank for that; then it must be a very small state if he can’t only provide a small fortune for Charlotte Lucas.
@@nadyaakins8202I think it was. When Lady Catherine scorns the Bennett's estate as 'very small,' Mrs Bennet immediately points out it is 'much larger than Sir William Lucas's.' Probably exaggerated but definitely it's not a big park. And Charlotte has many younger siblings - some of whom are still children incurring educational costs, and dividing the fortune between all of them would leave each with very little.
Charlotte's brothers are deeply relieved on her marriage, because the Lucas' estate isn't entailed. Like the Morlands in Northanger Abbey, they can pretty much divide it up however they want among their children. But with so many children still at home to provide for, they're unlikely to put a lot into dowries and settlements. If Charlotte marries someone who will inherit an estate like Mr Collins, her parents will probably still leave her SOMETHING - she is still their daughter! But as they know she is taken care of financially, her siblings' portions can be larger.
So good!!! ❤❤❤
“Dame” is the title for a female knight, such as “Dame Agatha Christie”, who was made a knight in 1971 by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. Nowadays knighthoods are often bestowed on people who have made notable contributions to society in many different fields.
Town councils here in England REALLY haven't changed all that much in how they operate since the Regency! 😆 Yeah, technically everyone can vote for them now, but hardly anyone does and it's essentially a popularity contest (the show Yes, Minster, which is as much a documentary as a comedy, goes into all that a lot!)
My council persists in doing things like selling land on floodplains for housing estates despite years of lobbying against it by the majority of the town. I have no clue how we let these people get elected in the first place, and would happily accept someone like Sir William Lucas instead! He'd be more likely to accommodate what the populace actually asked for, with his occupation of 'being civil to all the world!' 😂
Definitely being a Knight back then gave you a certain gravitas. Just by being honored with a knighthood it immediately made one a member of the gentry even without property. Sir William has done well for himself, a relatively important man in the community.
I can't help but think part of the lady thing stemmed from there being far more ladies than lords. So many ladies are obliged to marry down instead of up because only one man per generation is inheriting his father's (or mothers, or aunts or cousins) lordship title. Even if the title of a knights wife is dame, many of them would have married legitimate ladies by birth. Even the others would mostly be women of relatively high birth, wealthy family, and gentle manners.
After a while it would get confusing about how to address this knight's wife or that without a family history upon introduction, and to keep in mind who was which every time you meet. As they're all in polite society, it would be easier and more gracious to allow that freedom of address, as you're less likely to offend a real Lady by accidentally calling her "Dame" and more likely to compliment a Dame if you call her by "Lady" so it's really a win-win all around.
Then knighthoods started getting handed out like candy and women of god knows what birth were getting elevated so real Ladies got especially affronted about having to share a noble title with a farmer's/miller's/butcher's daughter.
Good point about the gender imbalance. Austen says the same thing at the end of Mansfield Park about Mary Crawford, still single despite her 20,000 pounds. Mary's wish is to marry an heir, a first-born -- but there are only so many heirs to go around. Austen suggests she will probably have to settle for a "younger son" without an estate, and with a lower income than her own.
True, but there were other options. Ladies of title but no fortune could marry untitled but wealthy gentry - like Darcy's mother. (It's clear his uncle the Earl, Colonel Fitzwilliam's father, doesn't actually have much to pass on besides his title.) Then there were the professions - the church, military and even the law. Only VERY high echelons in those fields (bishops, generals) were suitable for ladies, but they existed, and were mostly made up of 'younger sons' from the gentry and nobility. Like Henry Tilney and Captain Wentworth. Especially Wentworth. He's not initially on the same level asl Anne, a gentry lady, but he gets promoted to it. Frankly, had Wickham had any moral character he would not have been a bad match for Lydia; he could have used his legacy from Mr Darcy's father to purchase a commission and worked his way up to high-ranking officer if he had chosen.
How to address a person correctly with their family history in mind. In Persuasion Sir Walter Elliot has a book called the baronetage with all the baronetcies and their family history and family members listed at time of printing and in Wives and daughters the second Mrs Gibson has a book, the peerage, probably of the same kind with all the peers‘ families in it. And happenings at court were probably published in the newspapers, because when she asked Mr Collins wether Miss de Burgh was presented at court, she also said that she never read her name mentioned in the newspapers in relation to court.
I think they turned Lady back to Dame which it was previously was when women received the honour in their own right in the last century which was a lovely thing.
I imagine Mr Bennet living to 99 at the very least! Which from my calculation of Mr Bennet's age at the time the book is set being 45 - 55 - it would be a long time before Mr Collins could get his mitts on Longbourne. Mrs Bennet would pop off at about 60 because she is a nervy stressed woman and that cannot be good for a prolonged life - leaving Mr Bennet plenty of years to enjoy his library and reduce his household expenses due his own fairly modest pleasures and no young ladies to burden his purce. He might even have a substantial inheritance to pass on to his daughters or their children.
And maybe Mr Collins was hit by Lady De Bourgh's carriage when he rushed out at night to bow to her as she passed by. So Mr Bennet might invite Charlotte and her possible son - the inheritor of the estate - to come live with him - if that was allowed? She's a sensible quiet person and would be good company for him as he ages - and it would be close to her family. The son could be educated at Mr Bennet's expense, so as to grow up with a better character than his father. Not that Mr Bennet character is great - but he is kind when he troubles himself - and has more sense of himself that Mr Collins.
Sorry, got carried away, but it is something I've have pondered on, occasionally 😊 Also, Remis isn't any old knight - cats are born born Emperors and that's that!
Brilliant!
And then Mr. Bennet and the widowed Charlotte fell in love, got married, and made a son who inherited the estate instead of Charlotte's first son by Mr. Collins.
@@viviennehayes2856 😊
This is splendid. Thank you. I will be thinking of the unfortunate Reverend Collins's accident - abd smiling- whenever I feel like extending my life with laughter!
And my cat has jumped up to the desk to insist that SHE is in fact the Empress!
I love the cat 😀
I wonder if the late Mr Bennet was the councilman whose death freed the way for the then Mr Lucas. Our Mr Bennet would have been completely uninterested and willing to allow the first to put their hat in the ring to take it on (I'm guessing he'd have had first dibs even though it wasn't technically hereditary).
I thought "dame" was for if the woman was knighted (or basically the equivalent). Was that a thing in the Regency era?
tyvm!!
This video deserves a Victorian Cat emoji.
That is an excellent emoji choice. 🔥
I wonder why Charlotte hadn't managed to get herself married before Mr. Collins came along, considering her dad's connections.
There IS still a dress code for certain events for men in the UK which requires breeches and shoes that look like black ballerinas (with bows!). You can see the royals in it but even there it has gently shifted to coat and tails for the ‘common’ guests
Dang… RIP Donald Sutherland 😢
What age range do people generally place the young Lucas in? Because arguing for say, ten minutes, about how much wine you'd drink as a rich grown-up sounds like an 8-10-year-old kid to me.
I always assumed he was about 12. But it could be 10. The Lucases have many younger children besides Charlotte and Maria, and 'brothers' are mentioned so he could easily be the youngest or close to the youngest!
If damehood is good enough for Judy Dench, it's good enough for me🤷🏾♀
Hmm. I wouldn't mind being a knight in that era.
Of course after shaving my head for seven years to raise money for pediatric cancer research through St. Baldrick's I just got a paper certificate in the mail proclaiming me a Knight of the Bald Table. It arrived today folded in a firm crease despite prominent "do not fold" instructions. Here in the USA, facetious titles get you no respect even fron the Postal Service. Overall it makes me glad knighthood isn't administered by the government here; they'd find a way to mess it up even more.
Is this the same way Jean Val Jean would become mayor in Les Misérables
Was knight bachelor not passed down to next generations?
No, it was not passed down.
The only type of knighthood that is passed on to the next generation would be that of the baronet, a hybrid hereditary order that is between a knight and a baron.
E.g. Sir Walter Elliot, baronet.
❤ handsome kitty
Hope Mrs Bennett lives with Lydia, spinster Mary lives with Jane, Kitty lives with Lizzy til married
I think that Jane Austen's relatives heard from Jane that Mary married a Meryton fella - I can't remember his occupation, but quite respectable.
Kitty did live with Elizabeth and married a 'clergyman near Pemberly' (probably the one who held the living Wickham had declined!). Mary stayed in Meryton and married one of 'her uncle Phillips' clerks' - as the Philippses don't appear to have any children, he and Mary probably took over the office and did a good practice; I can see Mary studying up on cases and helping with that!
I have a feeling Mrs Bennet ended up living with the Bingleys or with Mary if her husband could afford it. Lydia definitely would not have had enough money to accommodate her mother as well, and Darcy would never have allowed it. He'd have taken his embarrassing mother-in-law himself before having it said Wickham did better by his relations!
I'm sure someone else has said that Julie Andrews is also the Queen in the Shrek world. She's Fiona's Mum 😊
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I have found my people.
Sir William got knighted for "we welcome you to munchkinland" level efforts???
When I think of knights, I think Rocket Man.
Obviously birds are not mammals, but it's always the boys who are the fabulous, elaborate ones. Even in mammals, the boys have to show off for the girls. Only people have the girls all fancy😂
It wasn't a botched surgery she had cancer near her vocal cords and they had to remove that part.
Funny you're talking about Julie Andrews in a video about Sir William, because she's a Dame, female equivalent of a knight, lol!
A 40 something yr old woman having a "nuh uh" "yeah huh" conversation with a child is hilarious.
Yep.
Remember folks - it's never Sir McCartney. It's Sir Paul or Sir Paul McCartney 😀
I once lived with cats called Sir Gawain and Sir Percy so maybe your cat was asking to be knighted. ( : 🗡️✨
Idk I kiiiind of disagree with the idea that all Jane's characters are funny or charming even if they are bad. For example: Isabella and John Thorpe are THE WORST! I hate John more though! He's SUPER creepy and just terrible. I struggled to read that one because of him. 😅
Yes I agree, I have the same thing with Mrs Norris, I hate her so much!