tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78961486219822958282024-03-05T23:31:57.423-06:00The P&P95Forever ClubThe opinionated, biased, and unswerving devotees of BBC/A&E's <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-32377638559143507502020-05-05T10:00:00.000-05:002020-05-05T15:38:19.967-05:00For your quarantined entertainment...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, hello lovely Reader!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's been a while since the last update here, and I (Miss Elizabeth), thought that while we were all quarantined together (but separately, in our own homes, of course), I might write a post to entertain us all. If you're climbing the walls, desperate to get out of the house (or if your job qualifies as an essential one, in which case we all salute you mightily), I can't do much about that, but I can provide you with at least a few P&P95-tinged moments of delight. Because even though the outside world is rather a mess right now, we can still laugh here on our corner of the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, for your quarantined entertainment, a few ideas:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because why not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This allows for so much delight: you can laugh at (or pity) Mary, commiserate with six versions of Elizabeth, and pooh-pooh inferior versions of<i> Pride and Prejudice</i> (ie. the<i> Gone With the Wind</i>-esque costumes of the 1940 version, the fact that there is some inexplicable Brahms sheet music on the pianoforte in the 1980 version, and any part of the 2005 version you like).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And lastly, if you<i> really</i> want to spend a lot of time if P&P-land, here's Jennifer Ehle herself<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVbLdOWjfhg&list=PLL84Aw12nRu1NHMOltb9n7ca8XaYlnU77" target="_blank"> reading<i> Pride and Prejudice.</i> </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That's it for me. My deepest hopes that, wherever you are, you are safe and well. I'll be back soon, hopefully, with a series in which I re-watch the entirety of P&P95 for the first time in... a while. Just to test if "my affections and wishes are unchanged."</span></div>
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<i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Miss Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511784119560902669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-75271214821439164142019-08-16T14:34:00.000-05:002019-08-16T14:34:31.565-05:00Jane Austen's How-To's<div style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d596d; font-family: "quot"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<i>Once, while I was "interviewing" for the post of Blog Author here, I was asked to write a trial post. This morning, I was going through the drafts, and I found it. I've haven't made too any modifications; I just thought I might send my interview out into the world.</i></div>
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<i>And no, this has nothing to do with the fact that I realized that I owed you all a post and had </i>no idea <i>what to write... So by all means, please enjoy a list of how-to's à la Austen.</i></div>
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Jane Austen's novels, if read properly and with a discerning eye, can be used as a how-to guide...even in modern times.* Think about it--she teaches you everything from the importance of a properly boiled egg, to the many ways you can catch a man. If that isn't a full service library, I don't know what is.</div>
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We'll start with the more trivial subjects, and work our way up to the big ones, shall we?</div>
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~An egg--a very <em style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">small</em> egg, mind you--boiled very soft is an excellent thing. Not at all unwholesome--it won't hurt you, at least. Especially if it's been boiled by Serle (we have yet to determine the importance of Serle in this equation).</div>
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~With your petticoat six inches deep in mud, of course. Is there even another way?</div>
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~Well, it helps if he's rich. Or a decorated hero--or both. Age isn't a factor, even if he's at the <em style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">ancient</em> age of "five and thirty".</div>
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~No creepy, sycophantic clergymen--no matter <i>how</i> many shelves their closets may have.</div>
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~Wait for him to propose to you after your best friend turns him down. It's been known to happen, you know.<br />
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~It helps to be a young man in possession of a good fortune. You can amass this fortune either on your own (by disappearing for a decade and coming back as a decorated hero) or inherit it along with a large estate with beautiful grounds (the grounds may be what help the young lady realize that she does indeed love you...so try to have some of those).</div>
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~Write her a letter.*** This has been known to work to a great degree of success. Telling her she pierces your soul is a nice touch. Basically, if the letter will make women swoon two hundred years in the future, it's good.</div>
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<em style="line-height: 19.2px;">*Some modifications will need to be made for the 21st century</em><br />
<em style="line-height: 19.2px;">**This feat may be replicated in the 21st century with an open convertible. Please do not send us your dry cleaning bill.</em><br />
<em style="line-height: 19.2px;">***This, however is an area you may<u> not</u> make modifications in. Has anyone ever swooned from an email? I think not.</em><br />
<em style="line-height: 19.2px;">***We do not guarantee results in this area, however, if you are not Mr. Darcy or Colin Firth.</em></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><u></u><u></u><br />Miss Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511784119560902669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-32326610925676705612019-07-18T17:46:00.000-05:002019-07-19T08:53:10.932-05:00Game the Forty-Seventh: Favorite ScenesGreetings, dear reader! I was on my lunch break today, lying in a rose garden and looking up at the sky (this is my favorite way of spending my lunch hour. I'm in an office the rest of the day, and I need to know what trees look like by lunchtime), and I had a thought. One of several, but this is the one that matters to this post. I realized that waaaay back when, we had the "How I Met P&P 95" game, but I don't think we've had a "Name Your Favorite Scene" game. *<br />
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Hence this game. It's not "game" in the traditional sense of there being a winner (winning, after all, is overrated). It's more of a sharing of anecdotes. The "rules" (these are "rules", the same way this is a "game") go something like this: name your favorite P&P 95 scene, the episode it's in, and the reasons it's your favorite (note: "Mr. Darcy in a wet shirt" is a perfectly valid reason).<br />
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I'll start: I am actually torn. I love Mr. Collins's failed "proposal", simply because it is so comical that it's painful to watch in parts.<br />
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The "Voi che sapete" scene certainly gets an honorable mention (I go rewatch that scene on its own from time to time), and I would be remiss not to mention Lady Catherine's call to inform Lizzy of her disapproval.<br />
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*If we<i> have</i> had this game, I do apologize. But really, it can't hurt to play it again, can it?</div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">Hello,
folks! Today we're going to resurrect the "games" part of the Club. I
loved the games when Amy and Melody did them, and was truly wracking my brain
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Competition. Well, okay, not really a competition, but certainly an attempt to
see who can come up with the most delightful, entertaining, or snarkiest (other
categories to be made up as we go along) slogan for P&P.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">So, rules: come up with a slogan for
either the novel or P&P 95 (although you certainly can get extra points for
a really snarky P&P2005 slogan) that you feel encompasses the work, include
a picture (or a link to it) if you'd like to, and post it in the comments
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Once upon a time, on a dark, insomnia-inducing night rather like this one, a young lady followed her first blog. That blog happened to be the P&P95 Forever Club. Later that night (technically the next morning), that same young lady started her own blog. To paraphrase Jane Austen, no one who had ever seen that young lady in her blogging infancy would have supposed that she would end up<i> here.</i><br />
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Hello-- my name is Miss Elizabeth, lately of <a href="https://modernmissbennetblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Modern Miss Bennet</a>, and I am that young lady. And<i> here</i> refers to the fact that I am now the Blog Author (or<i> authoress,</i> to be entirely correct) and your Club Manager. Fear not: Melody and Amy are still the founders and administrators, and I doubt we've seen the last of them. But you'll be hearing from me a bit more often from now on. I shall endeavor to keep this blog running much as it has, in the grand P&P95 tradition, and to build on what came before me. Anything else would be unfair to the club, I think.<br />
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I won't lie, though-- I feel a bit as though I've just been informed that I am hosting a ball at which I know none of the guests. Were I more like Mrs. Bennet, I would sag against the wall and weep about my nerves. But because I am<i> not</i> Mrs. Bennet, and would rather like to get to know all of you better, I am going to stand here at the imaginary doors of the blog and greet you. That's what the comment section is for-- and if you'd like to find out more about this impertinent young lady who's taken over your favorite blog, you can read all about me <a href="https://pandp95forever.blogspot.com/p/the-authors.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<i>P.S. A few housekeeping details: over the next few weeks, I'll be dusting off the rest of the blog. I've already begun to do so (you may have noticed some changes in the sidebar), but I would very much appreciate a bit of your help. Part of this dusting off involves checking all the links found on this site, so if you find a link that doesn't work during your perusal, let me know so I can Get Right On It. Please and thank you :)</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are things we <i>all </i>love about Pride and Prejudice--Mr. Darcy, of course, and we all love Lizzy as well. We often talk about them, the rest of the Bennets, Mr. Collins, and the Bingleys. We talk about the Gardiners, too, but not as often, it seems to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have we all forgotten how important the Gardiners are? When we read <i>Pride and Prejudice, </i>do we skim over the ending couple of pages, squealing instead over Darcy and Elizabeth? (Of course, this is not to say that I haven't done this two out of the three--maybe four--times that I've read it, and it's completely understandable. After all, Darcy and Lizzy!) Do we really take the time to read the last paragraph? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See what I mean? The Gardiners "had been the means of uniting them"! To be sure, Darcy and Elizabeth saw each other at Netherfield and Longbourn and Rosings, but if you take only their interactions in those places, then it is very doubtful that their acquaintance would have improved, or that "Elizabeth's opinion of him would have improved upon closer acquaintance." (Note: that is not the direct quote. :)) Jane Austen herself said that the Gardiners were "the means of uniting them" and so who are we to argue?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Besides their very key role in Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship, the Gardiners are such lovely people. I don't think anyone could help loving them. As is my favourite way to do this sort of thing, let me just list some of the random things I love about the Gardiners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-<b>They are a wonderful example of a married couple.</b> As was pointed out in THIS POST, Lizzy didn't really have a good example in her own parents, but the Gardiners showed her an ideal couple who loved and respected each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-<b>Mrs. Gardiner was just the sort of companion/mother figure Elizabeth needed. </b>Elizabeth was...rather unfortunate...in her mother. We love to watch Mrs. Bennet (at least I do), but I think we can agree that she was a rather un-ideal mother. Mrs. Gardiner was, from what we know, a good mother, and we see how she acts towards Lizzy. She was exactly what an aunt should be--a good friend, with some motherliness mixed in. She was able to sympathise with Lizzy, as well as offer advice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-<b>They really love Elizabeth. </b>It seems to me like the treat her almost like a child, and almost like a peer or something. I suppose they treat her just like a niece. :) I love their relationship, though, and it does Lizzy so much good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, of course, this post would be very sadly lacking if I did not give "that one scene" a major highlight. The scene to which I am referring is, of course, the one at Pemberley when Mr. Darcy shows such exceeding civility to the Gardiners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, then the Gardiners sadly misunderstand Mr. Darcy's character, but still. This scene seems to me to be one of the most important ones of the book. Mr. Darcy is able to show Elizabeth that he <i>is </i>a gentleman. To whom may we owe this scene? The Gardiners, and Mrs. Gardiner in particular. If it weren't for her, they would never have gone to Pemberley, and if they hadn't gone to Pemberley, then the rest of that business that happened between Darcy and Lizzy in Derbyshire would never have happened, I think. I really don't think they would have had an acquaintance in Derbyshire if it were not for that one scene. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you begin to see what I mean? The Gardiners are quite possibly the most important characters in the entire novel! Let me quote the last paragraph again:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Let me point out another thing in this paragraph: "Darcy...really loved them." <i>What does that say?!</i> Do you see what a big deal that is? Mr. <i>Darcy </i>loved them. We all know how selective he is about his acquaintance, and even more selective about people he loves. Of course, who could help loving the Gardiners? I'm quite sure he found them a far more pleasing aunt and uncle than Lady Catherine. </span><br />
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Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-28223117960840184252016-11-13T22:56:00.002-06:002016-11-13T22:56:47.236-06:00Giveaway WinnerI'm so sorry everyone. I was awfully busy, and then I forgot, and then I was awfully busy, and then I forgot... you get the picture.<br />
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BUT. We have a winner for the recent giveaway, and that would be Rae! Rae, please email us and get us your address so we can send you the book! :) (Assuming you live in the U.S., that is.)<br />
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Also, thank you to Hannu for your entry! Unfortunately, I couldn't count them in the giveaway since it would be awfully expensive to ship out-of-country, but I'm still appreciative!Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-86292046088426461662016-09-12T22:40:00.003-05:002016-09-12T22:40:24.431-05:00You Should Really Read This Exciting Post....wow. I am REALLY rusty when it comes to writing post titles. Not that that was <i>ever </i>my forte...<br />
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Um. Hello, lovely peoples. Miss Marianne here.<br />
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I know it has been AGES since you've seen a new post on this blog, and I apologize most sincerely. When we started this blog, Miss Dashwood and I were young and innocent :P and didn't have jobs. She was still in high school, and I'd graduated and wasn't doing any college yet. So at the time this was a reasonable undertaking.<br />
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Now, however... well, we just don't have the time to keep up with it, especially since we have our own individual blogs. But that doesn't mean we want it to fall into the void of old blogs that are never updated!<br />
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That is why we are asking for your help. And are having a giveaway.<br />
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This is the prize for the giveaway:<br />
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I somehow ended up acquiring two copies of this book and it's lovely fun and you will adore it. For a possibility of winning my extra copy, just do these very simple things...<br />
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1. FOLLOW THE BLOG and BECOME A MEMBER<br />
Sorry, you don't get any entries for these. They're just requirements for the others.<br />
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2. WRITE A GUEST POST FOR US<br />
This is the main reason for the giveaway. We need content!!! The post can be about pretty much anything you want, as long as it is P&P-related (P&P95-related is ideal). Even something simply Jane Austen-related might be acceptable. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. <br />
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3. POST ABOUT OUR RESOURCES<br />
My special request is that you inform other P&P95 fans of the resources on this blog. The website is designed to be a go-to to find P&P information, not simply a "blog," and I'm not sure how many people know about all the <a href="http://pandp95forever.blogspot.com/p/fan-material-and-info.html" target="_blank">interesting information</a> that is available.<br />
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<b>This is worth two entries. </b>Comment below and paste a link to your post. (It can be a blog or any social media.) <br />
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YOUR DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 26TH. Ready, set, go!<br />
<br />Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-5077219778369994252016-04-25T21:18:00.000-05:002016-04-26T09:20:41.375-05:00Seven Unimportant P&P95 observations – A guest post by Naomi<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First of all, thank you to the P&P95club (more specifically, the two charming hostesses) for giving me the honour of a guest post. (For those of you who’ve never met me… enchanted to make your acquaintance. My name is Naomi, and I grabbed Elizabeth’s last name for the internet, so you can call me Naomi Bennet if you feel like something formal.) I have been reading this blog for years and years now – and if you would have told a 12-year-old me who hardly dared consider anonymous commenting that I would one day be featured on here, I would have practically died in awe and longing. So thank you. :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having, like many of you, watched and re-watched </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Pride and Prejudice, I have come to the point in which I’ve observed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">much</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> more about it than just the basic things… being the plot, Elizabeth, Mr Darcy, and the galloping theme song. I’ve come to a point in which I over-think about everything in it (Is the bonnet Lydia bought really that ugly?) and I observe all the little things, from, ‘Hey, Maria Lucas is wearing her red shoes again’ to ‘The guy Mr Darcy is fencing with looks like Chauvelin in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Scarlet Pimpernel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d like to talk about ‘the sewing hand.’ Whose hand do </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> think it is? In my earlier P&P95 years, I assumed it was Mrs Bennet’s – seeing as the hand looks ‘old,’ and it’s likely to be someone of the Bennet household. But then Mrs Bennet does </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> equals tranquil-sewing. So then I liked to think it’s perhaps Hill, the never-present housemaid. But then Hill wouldn’t likely be doing embroidery work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, in practicality, I know it was a random behind-the-scenes-person; someone of the crew of P&P95, but it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> represent a character and I know not who. (Maybe Aunt Gardiner? She seems a likely suspect.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hate to criticize my favourite movie of All Time, but seriously – is it even humanly possible to fall asleep 1) in a noisy ball room while 2) sitting up straight 3) without any cushions or anything 4) with a wide-awake pupping in your hands and 5) with two girls at your left?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m not even </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">close</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to being a dog lover, but I have observed that Lizzy’s playmate came to bid her goodbye while Mr Bingley bade Jane goodbye. He’s in two scenes, the dog is. (I make terribly random observations, especially in the P&P95 area.) I’m naming the dog Caroline the second… because of reasons. (Well, firstly I do not enjoy the company of dogs, and neither do I enjoy the company of the dogs’ name-mate. And secondly, both are unpleasant to the eyes.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me and my family frequently mourn over the face that Jane Austen didn’t make Mary Bennet end up with Mr Collins, for it is perfectly clear (to us observers, that is) that Mary in the movie has </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sooome</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> kind of a crush on our dear cousin Mr Collins. The letter that her father read aloud at the dinner table obviously impressed her, and she even goes as far as to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neaten her hair</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> upon his arrival.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I always ask the same question whenever I see our dear foolish sisters Kitty and Lydia play the hoops-and-stick-game. WHAT’S THE JOKE. :-P</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s observed that Mary’s who face lights up in an ‘oh-is-he-going-to-ask-me-to-dance-with-him?????’-light, when Mr Collins says he’d light to dance the first dance with… oh, oh, it’s Elizabeth.</span></span></div>
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Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-78980312034151909452015-06-26T14:56:00.000-05:002015-06-26T15:33:23.355-05:00What Were They On? {2} {Answers}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The long, long delayed answers to that What Were They On? game we hosted... um... eons ago...</div>
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(that was Miss Dashwood's fault, by the way, because she was responsible for it. So don't blame Miss Marianne. Haha.)</div>
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<b>Miss Laurie</b>, who accrued 30 points! And a big thank-you to everyone else who participated as well.<br />
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First of all, no peeking at the actors page. Because the object of this game is to recognize the actors of P&P in other period dramas, so that might give things away. Well, all of the pictures will be of some actor who was in P&P, but none of them will be from P&P. Each one will have four categories, there are ten pictures, so the highest number of points will be 40. (I'll just put the categories under each picture to make it easier. :) )<br />
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Miss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-27379818259826667462014-12-30T20:05:00.001-06:002014-12-30T20:05:24.289-06:00Goodnight, Mr. Darcy: A Book Review<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Well, would you look at this-- the P&P95Forever Club is giving their first official review and endorsement! (Okay, I don't know if this really counts as an endorsement... but we can call it that if we want to, right? It makes us sound more professional and important.)<br />
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Today we'd like to bring you a review of the delightful new children's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1423636708/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=38511318386&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13626290275240118710&hvpone=12.82&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_w6ydcqdyi_e" target="_blank"><i>Goodnight Mr. Darcy</i></a>. You've probably heard of <i>Goodnight Moon</i> by Margaret Wise Brown, which is winsome and adorable and snuggly in its own right, but-- dare I say it?-- Goodnight Mr. Darcy is better.<br />
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Because <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, that's why.<br />
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<i>Goodnight Mr. Darcy</i> is one of the BabyLit parodies from Gibbs Smith, and basically it takes a children's classic (<i>Goodnight Moon</i>), mashes it with an adult classic (P&P) and produces a sweet piece of fiction that every Janeite parent should get for their child. Gibbs Smith contacted us a while ago asking if we'd be willing to review the book, and since they're super nice, they sent us a free copy. We say "us," but the book went to Miss Dashwood, who will be keeping it until one of us gets married and has a baby (hopefully in the far distant future, haha), at which time the book will go to the child, whom we hope will duly appreciate it and be trained up in the way in which he or she should go.<br />
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Introducing small children to classics is a great and wonderful thing, and what better way to do it than through a sweet, colorful picture book that will soothe them to sleep AND help them get to know some of the greatest characters who have ever graced the pages of English literature? <br />
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The story, wittily written by Kate Coombs and accompanied by charming illustratons from Alli Arnold, chronicles an evening at the Netherfield ball, hinting at the romance between Jane and Mr. Bingley (and the forthcoming mush between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy), complete with slightly snarky references to Mrs. Bennet and her three very silly younger daughters. We highly recommend it to Janeites both young and old (and most especially for infants, who can never begin learning too young).Miss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-88809010281535658352014-11-13T21:15:00.002-06:002014-11-13T21:18:38.205-06:00Announcing... the WINNERS!Go ahead and scroll down.<br />
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Lizzy and Darcy congratulate you! Sedately, of course.<br />
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(We had to do all that to make sure that people wouldn't be able to just read the winners' names in the little blurb that will appear on their dashboards.)<br />
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Anyway. Our heartiest congratulations are extended to...<br />
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<b>Lydia,</b> who won the Jane Bennet Quote Mug from Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/62071559/happiness-mug-jane-austen" target="_blank">Brookish</a>!<br />
<b>Natalie</b>, who won the Miniature Classic Novels Pride and Prejudice Necklace from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/154918969/miniature-classic-novels-book-necklace?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">JaneDaJewelry</a>!<br />
<b>Livia Rachelle</b>, who won the Jane Austen Novel Quotations Bookmarks from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/200643148/jane-austen-bookmarks-novel-quotations?ref=shop_home_active_11&ga_search_query=jane%2Bausten" target="_blank">Dorothy Jane</a>!<br />
<b>Kerry</b>, who won the Elizabeth Bennet Quote Keychain from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/205852010/elizabeth-bennet-pride-and-prejudice?ref=shop_home_active_5" target="_blank">NovelArtsIdeas</a>!<br />
...and <b>Ainsley</b>, who won the P&P Opening Line bookmark from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/204538002/pride-and-prejudice-quote-bookmark" target="_blank">Beyond the Pages</a>!<br />
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Winners, please contact us at shelvesinthecloset95 {at} gmail {dot} com by <b>Saturday, November 15th</b> with your mailing address so we can get your prizes to you! If we do not hear from you by Saturday, we will select alternate winners.<br />
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Everyone else, thanks so much for entering, and don't forget to check out the lovely donors' Etsy shops!Miss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-18950973001449186652014-11-03T11:12:00.000-06:002014-11-03T11:12:37.200-06:00The Grand 100-Followers Celebration Giveaway And here we are, everyone, with the promised giveaway! We have items for FIVE lucky winners! "Fancy that, Lizzy!"<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/62071559/happiness-mug-jane-austen" target="_blank">Jane Bennet Quote Mug</a><br />
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From Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Brookish?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Brookish</a> (a fellow admirer of P&P95 and well-versed in bashing the fake one), we have this nice mug, featuring a quote from Jane Bennet in the miniseries. I don't know about you, but I think it would be a fun thing to see in the morning when you go to make yourself tea (or coffee, if you're a coffee person ;) ).<br />
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2. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/154918969/miniature-classic-novels-book-necklace?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">The Miniature Classic Novels Pride and Prejudice Necklace</a></div>
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From Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JanDaJewelry?ref=l2-shop-info-name" target="_blank">JaneDaJewelry</a> comes this lovely little pendant shaped like a copy of Pride and Prejudice! This tiny wee book could reside on your favorite necklace chain, a ribbon or even on a charm bracelet. <br />
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3. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/200643148/jane-austen-bookmarks-novel-quotations?ref=shop_home_active_11&ga_search_query=jane%2Bausten" target="_blank">Jane Austen Novel Quotations Bookmarks</a></div>
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From Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/lacegrl130?ref=l2-shop-info-name#" target="_blank">Dorothy Jane</a>, these beautiful bookmarks will look splendid gracing the pages of your favorite Jane Austen novels! Don't forget to check out Dorothy Jane's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/dorothyjanetoo" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> as well as her Etsy shop. As something of a bookmark connoisseur, I think these are just adorable. :D<br />
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This classy little keychain charm from Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/NovelArtsIdeas?ref=l2-shop-info-name" target="_blank">NovelArtsIdeas</a> features one of our favorite Elizabeth Bennet quotes! Who doesn't love a good laugh... or a cute trinket with a literary reference?<br />
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And lastly, there is good news for our Australian followers! This item is especially for you. You can have it. Yes, you can enter the giveaway and might actually win a real thing that will be sent to you in the real mail. You're welcome. ;) Thanks to Angela from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeyondthePages19?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Beyond the Pages</a> for donating this item!<br />
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Unfortunately, at this time only U.S. residents can enter for prizes 1-4, and only Australian residents for 5. Everyone else... sorry. :( Give us a peep as to where you live, though, and if there are enough of you from other locations, maybe we'll have something local for you next time.<br />
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As is customary, there are lots of ways to enter! To make things simple, everything's worth one entry each.<br />
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1. Follow this blog publicly.<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Join/become a member of The P&P95Forever Club (see how </span><a href="http://pandp95forever.blogspot.com/p/members.html" style="color: #b4a7d6; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">).</span></span><br />
3. If you are a member, post an "I am a member..." button on your blog or website. (These are emailed to you when you join. If you didn't get one, let us know!) Send us a link so we can see it!<br />
4. Post about this giveaway on your blog. (If you do not have a blog, let us know what you DO have and we will try to accommodate you.)<br />
5. Follow our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePandP95ForeverClub" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.<br />
6-10. Visit the following Etsy shops, then come back and tell us something that particularly caught your eye:<br />
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~<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Brookish?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Brookish</a><br />
~<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JanDaJewelry?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">JanDaJewelry</a><br />
~<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/lacegrl130?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Dorothy Jane/ Lace Girl</a> AND her <a href="http://facebook.com/dorothyjanetoo" target="_blank">Facebook page</a><br />
~<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/NovelArtsIdeas?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Novel Arts & Ideas</a><br />
~<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeyondthePages19?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Beyond the Pages</a><br />
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So whichever of the above you do (or if it's already been done, like following), tell us in comments. Yeah, we're just doing this the old-fashioned way. (Although I think we'll be using Mr. Random.org for "drawing"-- last time we literally put papers in a hat and... that was a lot of cutting paper and writing, haha.)<br />
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Also! As promised, the last 15 people who followed the blog get an extra entry. If my (Miss Marianne at the moment) calculations are correct, these are the people-- if you know you were one of them (between 86 and 100), and I missed you, please let me know.<br />
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<i>vard</i><br />
<i>Erika</i><br />
<i>Sophie</i><br />
<i>Madeleine</i><br />
<i>mama jakeline </i><br />
<i>Ainsley Pontmercy</i><br />
<i>Jessy Jones</i><br />
<i>Teddybear </i><br />
<i>Julia </i><br />
<i>Ruth Janes</i><br />
<i>Hannu Heino </i><br />
<i>Anita GM</i><br />
<i>Robert</i><br />
<i>Rossana</i><br />
<i>Cryslyn </i><br />
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In order to claim that extra entry, you need to comment (using the account you followed with) and tell us you're here and you're entering.<br />
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<b>The giveaway will last </b>for ten days; it will be all over and the winners announced on November 13th, so make sure to get all your<b> entries done by </b>the end of <b>the 12th</b>! :)Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-65128346501205313452014-10-14T14:01:00.000-05:002014-10-14T14:01:20.959-05:00"My dear! Mr. Bennet! Wonderful news!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-69788361716113656212014-10-12T19:42:00.001-05:002014-10-12T19:51:16.133-05:00In Which We Officially Bash Fake P&P<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">So here we are, at last, presenting something we promised long ago, something you may well have forgotten about, something that will effectively scare away any lingering P&P05 fans who may be lurking tentatively around the corners of this blog. (We apologize in advance. We really have nothing against you personally. It's just the movie we hate. Honestly.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See, the two of us got together in real life (in case you didn't already know, we-- sadly-- live many miles apart from one another) this past March, and in celebration we decided to watch P&P05 together. Or as we prefer to call it, FakeP&P. Because we like inflicting torture on ourselves together. It's a hobby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Well, really it was because we enjoy making fun of things together. Because we are best friends, you see, and best friends don't judge each other, they judge other people (and movies) together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways. We watched the movie (at three in the morning... ahem...) and as we went into it, we both thought that perhaps, just perhaps, we'd each been too hard on it when we'd seen it before. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all. Maybe there were some hidden good qualities that our embittered cynicism had been unable to see the first time around. Maybe we'd end up kinda sorta liking it. Who knew? Let's give it a chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Yeah, nope. It was awful. Which is why we're here to write this review. Er, bashing. Whatever. Let us proceed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We'll start off with Elizabeth Bennet herself-- no, let's call her Lizzie, because that's the way the filmmakers spell it. That way we can differentiate between this character and the<i> real </i>Elizabeth Bennet. ONE Bad Point so far, with many more to come... the name is Lizzy, folks, because that's the way Jane Austen wrote it. Not Lizzie and certainly not Lizzi. (Yes, the FakeP&P-ers didn't spell it Lizzi, but trust us, if they someday come out with a Sort-of Modern Interpretation that takes place in a 1970's hippie commune, the name will become Lizzi. But we won't let this happen. We shall overcome! Lizzy-with-a-y forevah! Stay strong, fellow Janeites!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One of the biggest things that bugged us about Keira Knightley's portrayal of Lizzie was her appearance. Whether Keira Knightley looks like Elizabeth Bennet or not is a matter of opinion (it can't be denied that she does have fine eyes) but her slovenly way of</span><span style="background-color: white;"> dressing when she wasn't actually in a ballroom and the way she wore her hair... ay yi yi. Flapping in the wind like the mane of a pony. She's not thirteen years old, people. Back then it was considered indecent for a woman to run around in public with her hair down. Wearing your hair loose was equated with being in a state of undress (i.e. in your nightclothes or negligee... OH WAIT, she does that too!) and was only for the privacy of one's bedroom. Certainly not for parading the streets of Not-Meryton.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And aside from all that, she just <i>isn't Elizabeth</i>. Her manners are completely wrong. Lizzy can be fun and carefree, but she always does retain her dignity and is a lady at all times (scampering about the countryside, with no one else around, does not count). With Lizzie, it is not that way. She bounds around just like one of her younger sisters... and don't get us started on her giggle, which is excessively annoying. Elizabeth Bennet, on the other hand, would have had a delightful laugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let us move on to the rest of the Bennet family-- but first let us tak<span style="color: #222222;">e a look at their house. Not too long of a look, though, because it's ugly. UGLY. And way, way too poor. The people making this movie obviously did not understand what Lizzy and Jane meant when they spoke of having no fortunes... they kept servants, for crying out loud. Plus, what is up with having a random pig running through the dilapidated old hovel. Um, what. (Miss Marianne's hypothesis is that perhaps since Lydia doesn't know how to snort properly in this version, the pig is there to be her tutor in that direction. Miss Dashwood applauds this notion and giggles at it randomly when she happens to think about it, even when she is out in public... a rather Lydia-esque course of action, in point of fact.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, perhaps better known as the Not-Bennets, they are, to be blunt, duds. (Do we get an award for all those commas? No? Okay then.) Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet is not half as fun as Alison Steadman-- what's up with her being a whiny half-sympathetic wimp? Where's the neurotic, squawking marriage-obsessed mom we all know and love? You almost feel sorry for her once or twice, and that's not what Mrs. Bennet is supposed to be. She's a caricature, not a creature of pity. Modern filmmakers, will you STOP whitewashing negative characters???? As for Donald Sutherland... come on. The man does nothing but sit around in his long hair and unshaven face and look soulfully at his plants. "Oh, orchid. You understand me." The sharp wit, the actual close relationship between him and Elizabeth-- nope, not there. Actually, basically nothing is there. It'd make more sense if the dude didn't even exist. He's totes in boresville. NEXT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The two of them also have problems with their hair, but that's mostly owing to the general bad-hair-ness of the movie and the wrong time period thing. Ohhh, but we didn't talk about THAT yet, did we? *rubs hands together in anticipation*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane Austen began writing <i>First Impressions</i> in 1796. This was an early version of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, but she actually rewrote the whole thing a year or two before it was published, in <i>1813.</i> We know from things she said that a <i>lot</i> of things were changed, and obviously she's going to be updating the story for Present Audiences if she's rewriting it all. So, the story is set in 1813, or 1812, if you prefer. End of story, peoples. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i>"Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter. I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest--there is no occasion for anything more. Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">If Lady Catherine was so fashion-conscious, I <i>seriously</i> doubt she'd be wearing clothes about thirty years old. </span><span style="color: #222222;">Even in 1796, she would have been quite outdated, so that's actually another Dumb Thing that the movie-makers did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Speaking of Lady Catherine, might this be a good time to ask why on earth they had her show up at the Bennets' house in the middle of the night?? What EVEN? That's just ridiculous. She's too snobbishly high-class to do that. And the Bennets all in their nightclothes... good grief. (This movie really has a thing with nightgowns and nightshirts. Which is... weird.) The whole scene was nuts, anyways. Lizzie ending up losing her temper and storming out of the room with everyone listening outside the door? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">It was supposed to a private conference, in the afternoon, in a prettyish sort of garden, and Elizabeth was very dignified the whole time even if she did become a bit... Indignant. Not like a sassy teenager, though. Come on, peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Overall the movie is just. too. modern. It has this overarching modern FEEL-- inexplicable, but we'll give it a shot anyway. The whole point of watching period dramas (for us at least) is to temporarily enjoy another time period and pretend one is actually IN a world where balls were a normal form of entertainment and people wore long skirts and bonnets and gentlemen were, y'know, gentlemen. P&P95 does a beautiful, beautiful job of making the Regency era feel real and accessible and desirable, while FakeP&P slaps you down in the middle of a half-heartedly "old-fashioned" set and says, "Here, watch the heroine spin on a swing while a pig prances in the background. Yay for the olden days. Would they have had that kind of sofa back then...? LOL whatevs." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The movie is full of historical inaccuracies. Y'know that scene where the footman dude comes in and announces that "a Mrs. Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet, and a Miss Bennet" were there? Nooope. Wrong. You lose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sure, it's funny, in a sense, but... it's not right. Back then there was a formula to avoid just that nonsense. When in a group, only the oldest unmarried girl would be "Miss {Last name}". All the younger girls were "Miss {First name} {Last name}." So the correct way to say that, my dear footman, would have been "Mrs. Bennet, Miss Mary Bennet, Miss Catherine Bennet, and Miss Lydia Bennet."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Basically, in this movie, he's nice, but he's <i>not Mr. Darcy</i>. Perhaps most importantly, his air is just wrong. They played the 'shy' side of Mr. Darcy up wayyy too much. Mr. Darcy is an introvert, but he's not bashful, and he is supposed to give that idea that he's being somewhat arrogant if people don't know how to interpret it correctly. Matthew MacFadyen's portrayal completely missed a big chunk of Darcy's character, making him seem withdrawn, awkward, and kind of... sad all the time. Weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then there's Georgiana Darcy. With her, it's like they forgot to actually read the part of the book where it describes her character. First, they chose an actress, though around 17, they made to look about 14, with her hair down in three curl things. Then she's just way too bouncy and not the sophisticated, seeming-older-than-her-age girl of the book. Good grief, people, this is supposed to be a young woman who was going to get married when she was 15. She's not supposed to be a little girl. And she's supposed to be much more, well, shy... not perky and bubbly. While she may have made a cute scene with her brother, they weren't the Darcys of the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The whole Pemberley bit was wrong, actually... which is quite sad, because it's a great part of the story. Let's not even get started with the statues, and then the Bust of Darcy. And Lizzie running out of the room as soon as she sees Mr. Darcy, again acting out of character. The real Lizzy is dreadfully embarrassed but has the dignity to not make a spectacle of herself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*begin short rant* <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> does <i>not</i> need more dramatizing, especially when you make such a MESS of it. *end short rant*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's talk about Mr. Collins for a moment, shall we? Or maybe we should call him Osbourne Hamley... because that's all we think of when we see him. (Tom Hollander is a good actor and all, but he belongs in <i>Wives and Daughters</i>, not P&P.) He lacks humor, height, and hateability, in that order, except he doesn't really lack the hateability but I needed alliteration. And he's hateable for all the wrong reasons. The "what excellent boiled potatoes" line was mildly funny, but it doesn't make up for his general meh-ness in all his other scenes (of which there are shockingly few). In short, a dud. NEXT. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(Charlotte herself, by the way, is nothing wonderful, in fact sometimes downright annoying and not like Book Charlotte, even though that actress is quite good in other things. Colonel Fitzwilliam is also blehhh. And then discussing Darcy-and-Bingley thing <i>during</i> a <i>church service</i> like a pair of six-year-olds? Except six-year-olds would have been reprimanded by their mothers before they could progress in the conversation that much.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and Mr. Wickham is a SLIMY CREEP. Okay, okay, he's supposed to be that, we grant you, but he's also supposed to have an appearance of goodness, and Rupert Friend and his greasy, stringy hair did not. (We have nothing against Rupert Friend; he was splendid in <i>The Young Victoria</i>. Just for the record.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to move on again. How about the scenes that were made complete messes of?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stalking Lizzie in the rain and randomly popping her up and scaring her half to death?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Getting right into the Jane-and-Bingley matter when really he saved most of that that for the letter afterwards?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No. JUST NO. Why are they doing this weird thing, like Elizabeth is supposed to be secretly attracted to him the whole time? She's nooot. Because, happily, P&P is not a modern historical fiction novel. *Real-Lydia-snort*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But apparently the filmmakers thought they had to stick in at least one more scene that mimicked a third-rate historical fiction novel (probably one with a cover featuring a swoony heroine in a historically inaccurate dress), because they decided to have Arthur-- sorry, DARCY-- show up in Lizzie's room bearing a letter. Yes. IN HER BEDROOM. BEHIND HER SHOULDER. CREEPILY. IN THE MIRROR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please tell us we weren't the only ones who thought it was supposed to be a nightmare at first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But that scene's not the worst, really it's not, because you keep going on and on through miles of rubbish just like it (not even redeemed by Bingley's moderately cute proposal to Jane), and then...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You know what we're talking about (more's the pity.) The infamous sunrise blathering. The "your hands are cold" nonsense. The traipsing about the London countryside in what would have at the time been a scandalous state of undress. The fog. (Okay, we don't actually have anything against the fog. England is foggy, whatever. But we needed another thing to complain about and we've already bashed Lizzie's hair quite enough.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We know that Jane Austen didn't dramatize the proposal scene very much in the book. We know there's not a whole lot to work from. (And if the filmmakers had read the book, they'd know that too... ahem... okay, we're doing that joke to death...) But that's no excuse for making the scene illogical (why were they both just randomly OUT at that hour?), inappropriate (yes, in the early 1800's it would have been extremely inappropriate to go cavorting about unchaperoned in what was basically your underwear), insipid ("your hands are cold"? really?") and insufferable. Ugh, ugh, ugh and ugh. Now, the far superior 1995 version romanticized that scene just a tad, but at least it was all perfectly plausible and fit right in with the events of the book and SOUNDED LIKE SOMETHING JANE AUSTEN MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We ask you, would the woman who wrote "you pierce my soul; I am half agony, half hope" and "I cannot make speeches, Emma; if I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more" seriously pen something as dish-watery as "now then, your hands are cold?" NO. SHE WOULD NOT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And even "you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I, uh, love, uh, you," quoted though it may be on Pinterest (and often misspelt, cough cough ahem), is basically the dumbest pseudo-romantic claptrap that ever graced a television screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, that and the unbelievably idiotic final scene, the one that made us physically ill, the one where they're languishing about in their pajamas again (at least they're married this time) and saying Mrs. Darcy over and over and over again. Yes. Because chattering ceaselessly, according to Jane Austen, is THE BEST way to convince someone that you're in love with them. If I loved you less, I'd talk about it less, and all that... oh WAIT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry, are we being a bit harsh? Probably, yeah. But it's our blog. ;P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Um, is there a grade lower than an F?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All right, all right, we'll be nice. <span style="background-color: white;">On the whole, it's just... kind of boring, really. If someone who knew nothing of P&P watched this movie and proclaimed the story to be boring, we can't say we'd really blame them, due to the representation. If someone who knew nothing of period dramas watched this movie and proclaimed the genre to be dumb, we really couldn't blame them either. As a film, it's nice to look at. Sometimes. Some of the cinematography is lovely. But the script is trite (and a lot of the lines are said so fast and so dully that you don't really catch what's being said), the music is lovely but gets repetitive really fast, and... yeah, you get the idea. (This isn't even an exhaustive list of the things that annoy us. We just didn't want to make y'all sit here till kingdom come.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though, of course, the reason you're reading this blog in the first place is probably because you already prefer The Good One, so we needn't advise you-- we shall just applaud your taste and let you proceed on your way. Thanks for listening to our complaints. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and here's a nice purty picture of Real P&P to reward you for slogging through all that nonsense. ;)</span></div>
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Miss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-24355736012384351032014-09-16T22:00:00.000-05:002014-09-16T22:00:02.469-05:00P&P95 Location Tour: Guest Post<i>Miss Dashwood and Miss Marianne are very pleased to present to you today Mr. Hannu Heino, a "middle-aged gent from Northern Europe" and new member of the P&P95 Forever Club. Mr. Heino was kind enough to share with us some of his experiences in traveling England and seeing the locations at which P&P was filmed, and we asked if he'd be willing to write up a guest post for the Club, as we thought our other readers might enjoy his writing as well. Without further ado...</i><br />
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I was simply thrilled when Miss Dashwood suggested that I wrote a guest post about my recent adventures into the world of Jane Austen. Thank you for this opportunity.<br />
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If you are reading this you must be fond of the book and the excellent 1995 adaptation. You are probably also deeper into Austen than I am. As a Janeite I'm really a noob, but a passionate one, and that is something I wish to share.<br />
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You might be surprised to hear that the books of Jane Austen were not read at school at the time I was there. I don't think they do even now. We had to read some American literature like Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger, but not any English and definitely not Austen. I've read quite a lot of science fiction and fantasy in my youth, but been more into memoirs than fiction later on. Up to this spring I never had any interest in Austen's books as I considered them "ladies only". I did have quite a prejudice, didn't I?<br />
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Learning about Jane Austen's masterpieces as a mature adult has given me an opportunity to really enjoy them; to understand the multiple layers of the stories and to find out how delightful they are. As a teenage boy I surely wouldn't have appreciated them.<br />
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I'm actually pleased that I hadn't read Pride and Prejudice as a youngster. This newly-founded enthusiasm of mine prompted me to visit the filming locations in England. It was a pilgrimage for 20th anniversary of the filming and 200th anniversary of the book (yes, yes, that anniversary was in 2013 already).<br />
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We (my dear wife and me) managed to visit quite a few of the important locations in June.<br />
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The Hunsford Parsonage (Teigh Old Rectory) was our starting point. We stayed three nights where the staircase is "neither too steep nor too shallow" and where there are "shelves in the closet". Lizzy's bedroom is located upstairs on the second floor exactly where you see it in the film; still the same colour of paint, but no shelves in that closet (too inconvenient for the guests). The first floor parlour has still got the same wallpaper and it felt like Mr. Darcy had just proposed to Lizzy Bennet there. The proprietor, Mrs Owen was kind enough to light up the fireplace in the parlour for us. Her two cats prefer sitting there, just like Charlotte did; we had some wine and cheese.<br />
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Rosings Park (Belton House) is further away from Hunsford than mere a lane, about 20 min drive. While admiring the grandeur of the park you can "mark the windows, there are sixty-four in all. Sixty-four!". The green dining room of Lady Catherine is actually quite unique, there is nothing like that in the rest of the house. You recall Mr. Darcy running up the stairs to the second floor to write that important letter, but his room really is on the first floor (which you can also observe in the film). Darcy's bedroom is truly decorated like that; there is the writing desk and that magnificent canopy bed.<br />
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On the way to the Peak District we revisited Chatsworth (we had been there before), because "there was no awkwardness there." Make sure you won't miss it if you ever go to Derbyshire. While exploring the narrow pathways of the Peaks (thanks to gps sat nav) we reached the Roaches and climbed onto the Ramshaw Rocks, famous for the "victory sign" shape of the rock formation. P&P is the only film I've seen them in, however: "Elizabeth, be careful. How could I face your father if you trip and fall?"<br />
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Right between Chatsworth and the Ramshaw Rocks there is the charming village of Lambton (Longnor) where "there is two gentlemen and a lady waiting upon you in the parlour."<br />
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Pemberley (Lyme Park) is no more than 20 miles from Lambton. We did enjoy the beautiful grounds and I agree that "I don't think I've ever seen a place so happily situated. I like it very well, indeed." Seems like nothing has changed there. I was expecting to see Lizzy and the Gardiners strolling on the lawn and Mr. Darcy appearing behind the bushes at any moment. You can dress up in 1910's clothes during your visit there, but there didn't seem to be any Regency (1810's) apparel available. I don't think Mr. Darcy would have swam in any of the murky ponds, particularly not the one on the northern edge of the grounds.<br />
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Naturally we also applied to the housekeeper to see the inside of the place and sighed "of all this I might have been mistress!" The interior of Sudbury Hall fits very well to the book and is much more appropriate a location than Lyme Park would have been (Lyme and Belton are quite pompous). The grand staircase is really grand, as well as the gallery upstairs which displays portraits of wives and mistresses (which you can spot by the depth of their décolleté). The portrait of Mr. Darcy is missing. The furniture of the music room is also missing; a couple of chairs do not a music room make!<br />
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You'll find some more pictures of the Pride & Prejudice sights we just visited in my site: https://plus.google.com/photos/103708968441393416987/albums/6030700986465054161?authkey=CLugj676yPSs2wE<br />
There are short captions and location coordinates in each of those pictures, just click on the first one to start the show.<br />
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I'd like to recommend buying "The Making of Pride and Prejudice" by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin. It is an absolute must for all P&P95 fans (and it is very cheap).<br />
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You might also like to learn that Victoria Owen, the proprietor of Teigh Old Rectory, has got an album of the pictures she took during the filming in their house in June 1994. There are nice off-stage pics of Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, David Bamber, Lucy Davis, Lucy Scott and Nadia Chambers. That album alone makes it worth your while to stay overnight in there. Not to mention the warm hospitality of Mrs. Owen.<br />
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So, what got me finally interested in the <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>?<br />
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Well, there are few movies or TV series which I consider worth watching. The original <i>Brideshead Revisited</i> and the <i>Band of Brothers </i>were such. The wonderful BBC miniseries had of course been aired on our TV several times during the past 18 years and I had seen some episodes occasionally, but not all of the series. Ever. Until I watched it on DVD one Saturday night in January and got absolutely hooked. I had to watch the 5 hours of the miniseries in one straight run; I just couldn't stop. Talk about excitement!<br />
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You could say I got infatuated with <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>. I fell in love with the book and with the BBC adaptation, the faithful script and the marvellous acting. I also fell in love with Lizzy, her fine eyes and pert opinions.<br />
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Having watched the remastered miniseries on blu-ray almost incessantly this spring and having also read the book a few times I just had to make this tour to fulfil the desires of the romantic heart of mine. Believe me, it was worth it. We didn't manage to visit Netherfield (Brocket Hall), Longbourn (Luckington Court) nor Weston-Super-Mare this summer. We must make another trip...<br />
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<i>Thanks for sharing the details of your wonderful trip with us, Hannu! To all our other readers-- if you've ever visited the P&P filming locations and would like to tell us about them, please send an email to shelvesinthecloset95[at]gmail[dot]com. We'd love to have you write a guest post, too!</i>Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-45294197879263890142014-06-16T10:35:00.000-05:002014-06-16T10:35:17.026-05:00Guest Post by Miss Jane Bennet: Why I Love Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy<i>Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/12990860661370730793" target="_blank">Miss Jane Bennet</a> of <a href="http://regencynovel.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Classic Ramblings</a> to the podium! She is here today to talk about Mr Darcy-- or Colin Firth. Well, both. So sit up and pay attention because we're going to quiz you afterwards. (Well... not really.)</i><br />
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Colin Firth as Mr Darcy is
really cute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a thing for Dark
Curly Hair (case in point: Sherlock), and he’s quite good-looking and reminds
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picture him in my head when I read the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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probably got one out of two reactions: “AHHHH THE WET SHIRT!!” or “Ehhhh..he’s
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exceptions, but those seem to be the two main opinions, and sometimes that
really frustrates me, because he’s a lot more than either “okay” or simply eye
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are apathetic to his performance because he seems to have cheapened Mr
Darcy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to an extent, that’s true;
there are a lot of people who like Mr Darcy simply because of him and don’t
really understand the character at all, and one doesn’t want to be lumped in
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">However, that is not the
beginning and end of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He really does
give an amazing performance, especially when you consider that he’s playing a
character that’s been known and loved for centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That has to be pretty daunting.</span></span></div>
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about his Mr Darcy are the smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think the little smiles at the beginning are characteristic of his pride and
reserve, and then later as he unbends a little with Elizabeth, he smiles more
openly, and then at the end, when he does The Grin, it makes a big impression
because he’s so <i>happy</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The
wedding always makes me choke up just a tiny bit.)</span></div>
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really enjoy about Colin Firth’s acting is his interaction with Elizabeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and Jennifer Ehle were in a relationship
during filming, and that probably influenced it a bit, but I love all the
scenes with Darcy and Elizabeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
awkward silences (with suppressed laughter on Lizzy’s part and pure misery on
Darcy’s :D), the little hesitations Darcy has before speaking with her, his
look during the scenes at Pemberley…and of course, The Proposals.</span></div>
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are quite possibly my favorite things about his Darcy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </
span>The first one is just such a huge mixture of
emotions, and I think he got it down perfectly, from confident to embarrassed
to angry to heartbroken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then during
the second one, sadly brief though it is, he’s so nervous and tender and
overjoyed, all at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually Squeal
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things I love about his performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, this is all partly a matter of taste, but I believe that he’s the best
Darcy we’ll get for a long time, possibly ever, and for me he really IS Mr
Darcy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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main point has been—Colin Firth is so much more than just a guy with a nice
face or a weird penchant for jumping into lakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
admit, sometimes I downplay his
performance because it’s automatically assumed that if I like it, I like it
because he’s handsome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he really did
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Thank you very much, Miss Bennet! Miss Dashwood and I were quite pleased and amused by your Rant. I appreciate you taking the time to write a post for us. :)<br />
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Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-70580168051995690292014-06-12T22:07:00.002-05:002014-06-12T22:07:43.422-05:00Please Re-VoteFor some reason, the poll on the sidebar is not working... at least, nothing's showing up for me. If you could do me a great big favor and vote on this one instead, I'd be much obliged. :D
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Miss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-3384815746600964222014-06-11T15:48:00.001-05:002014-06-11T15:48:23.117-05:00New Poll!Mainly for research purposes (to know how to best set up our giveaway) but also because we're curious, there is a new poll on the sidebar asking what countries our readers and members live in. We'd be much obliged if you put in your... well, not really vote, but... you know.<br />
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Yeah, I'm not good at wording things today. Don't mind me...<br />
<br />~Miss MarianneMiss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-47892230837982975502014-06-06T22:04:00.000-05:002014-06-07T10:57:59.191-05:00Dot-to-Dots, Chocolate and Blog Followers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Eighty-five followers! What felicity this is! Here we are at a bit of a milestone... and yes, it’s taken us a while to actually write this post. We’re sorry. But hey, we do have some Interesting Things brewing on the back-burner of this blog (which we are careful to turn off when we’re not attending to it-- we took fire safety in third grade just like you). <br />
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Now, back to what we were talking about. Followers. Eighty-five is nice, but it would be even NICER if we reached a nice, round, three-digit-ed 100… and that is the goal we are now pushing towards. Not that that was a hint or anything. Well, okay, it kind of was. <br />
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Basically what we’re trying to say is FOLLOW THIS BLOG AND WE WILL GIVE YOU PRIZES.<br />
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What kind of prizes? Well, we can’t give away ALL our secrets, can we? But remember the giveaway we had last year? That was pretty fuuun, yes?<br />
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Draw your own conclusions. :D<br />
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In case you can’t draw, we’ll give you a dot-to-dot. <br />
Dot One: This blog currently has 85 followers.<br />
Dot Two: Once we reach 100 followers, we will have a Fantastic Giveaway.<br />
Dot Three: [x number] fortunate followers will receive Fantastic Prizes.<br />
Dot Four: Everyone will love us forever and this blog will become famous.<br />
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Okay, maybe one of those is a bit of a stretch but you get the idea.<br />
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So, Enthusiastic Readers, if you are indeed enthusiastic, feel free to do things liiike talking about us on your blog and telling friends and things like that, because the sooner we have 100 followers, the sooner Nice Things Will Happen.<br />
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And as we all know, dangling a carrot in front of people’s noses is the way to get them to do things. Not that we’re treating you with condescension or anything... um... Miss Marianne, do you think this blog post is a little odd?<br />
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Of course it is. Why would we dangle carrots in front of people? CHOCOLATE is the answer. *nods emphatically*<br />
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Naturally. We can’t promise there will be chocolate in the prizes, though.<br />
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Thanks so much to everyone who’s been following and keeping up with our eccentricity!<br />
And now this post comes to an abrupt and awkward end. <br />
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The people have spoken (er, voted) and the funniest line in P&P95 is...<br />
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"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins... and I will never see you again if you do."</div>
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We are delighted to see that the Funniest Line throwdown seems to be going rather well-- thank you to all who participated in the polling last week! Our Final Four quotes have been chosen, and humorously enough, three of the four come from Mr. Bennet. The man is witty indeed. :D Please vote in the poll on the sidebar for your favorite (one vote per visitor, please) and come back on Saturday for the announcement of the winner! In the meantime we hope to have a fun little surprise for you appearing on the blog, so keep a lookout. :D</div>
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#1: "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins... and I will never see you again if you do." ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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#2: "Shelves in the closet! Happy thought indeed." ~Elizabeth<br />
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#3: "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They’ve been my old friends these twenty years at least." ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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#4: "May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?" ~Mr. BennetMiss Dashwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913179083106498252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-89906393737867458422014-04-21T15:15:00.000-05:002014-04-21T15:15:50.019-05:00Funniest Line Throwdown: Round OneDue to the enthusiastic response to last week's nomination opening, this throwndown is turning into a two-parter. Today there will be two polls to vote on, and the polls will be up through Saturday. Then on Monday the 28th, the winners of those polls will go against each other to determine the final Winning Quote. The result will be posted Saturday May 3rd.<br />
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Without further ado, here are the lines we'll be voting on-- and to answer someone's question, if you made a nomination you are certainly still welcome to vote now. :)<br />
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<b>#1:</b> "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do <i>not</i> marry Mr Collins... and <i>I </i>will never see you again if you <i>do</i>." ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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<b>#2: "</b>Ah, you look very well, Lizzy! You will<i> never</i> be as pretty as your sister Jane, but I will say you look very well indeed." ~Mrs. Bennet<br />
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<b>#3: </b> Bingley: Then... I have your blessing?<br />
Darcy: Do you need my blessing?<br />
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<b>#4: </b>"Oh, Mr<i> Bennet</i>!" ~Mrs. Bennet<br />
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<b>#5:</b> Maria Lucas: Lizzy! Lizzy! Come into the dining room, for there is such a sight to be seen! Make haste!<br />
Lizzy: Is this all? I thought at least that the pigs had got into the garden!<br />
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<b>#6:</b> "Shelves in the closet! Happy thought indeed." ~Elizabeth<br />
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<b>#7:</b> "No one knows what I suffer with my nerves. But then I never complain!" ~Mrs. Bennet<br />
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<b>#8: </b>"You will never play<i> really </i>well, Miss Bennet, unless you <i>practice </i>more." ~Lady Catherine<br />
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<b>#9: </b>"I'll tell you what I'll do. I shall write to Mr Bingley, informing him that I have five daughters, and he’s welcome to any of them that he chooses. They're all silly and ignorant like other girls; well, Lizzy has a little more wit than the rest." ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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<b>#10: </b>"But then, he may *prefer* a stupid wife, as others have done before him." ~Mr. Bennet <i>(Sort of a continuation of the quote above.)</i><br />
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<b>#11: </b>"No lace, no lace, Mrs. Bennet, I beg you!" ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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<b>#12: </b>Darcy: And where are you staying?<br />
Elizabeth: At the inn at Lambton.<br />
Darcy: Ah, yes, of course. <i>(Also known as "Ohyesocourse.")</i><br />
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<b>1)</b> Elizabeth: We each have an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room.<br />
Darcy: This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure.<br />
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<b>2)</b> "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They’ve been my old friends these twenty years at least." ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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<b>3)</b> "Resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose some part of its value in our estimation." ~Mr. Collins<br />
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<b>4) </b>"It is a very handsome building, and prettily situated, sir. And by no means lacking in windows." ~Elizabeth<br />
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<b>5)</b> "You take delight in vexing me! You have no compassion on my poor nerves!"<br />
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<b>6)</b> "There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment in music than<br />
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<b>7)</b> Mrs. Gardiner: And just as handsome as in his portrait, though perhaps a little less formally attired.<br />
Elizabeth: Oh, we must leave here at once!<br />
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<b>8) </b>"You must tell him what a dreadful state I'm in. How I have such tremblings and flutterings all over me, such spasms in my side, and pains in my head, and beatings at heart, that I can get no rest either night or day!" ~Mrs. Bennet<br />
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<b>9) </b>Elizabeth: Yes, ’tis truly a very cruel deprivation. Indeed, I hardly know how I shall bear the loss of Lady Catherine’s company.<br />
Mr Collins: You feel it keenly! Yes, of course you do, my poor young cousin!<br />
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<b>10)</b> "May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?" ~Mr. Bennet<br />
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