The Peak District pt. 1
Okay, in perspective
I sorted all of the spools out into a box and put my original collection of ribbon in too. So much ribbon.
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
7/7 stars
I think I was thirteen when I first read Pride and Prejudice. Since then, I have lost track of how many time read it. Enough to have many passages memorized by heart. I love this book. It’s definitely on my “everyone must read this at least once” list. Because it is such a well-known piece, I am going to assume that you have read it, so there will be spoilers in this. You are fairly warned.
From a personal perspective, I have grown to truly love this book the more I read it. Part of this is obviously that I have far more experience in life than I did 15+ years ago. Another part of it, however, is a better understanding of 19th century England and its culture. All of the little slights, the subtle impertinences make far more sense from…
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Oh My Darcy!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The opening line of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has stuck with me since my first reading of it. In 2007, my sister had an English assignment that required her to compare a novel with its movie counterpart, and because of this I was introduced to what has possibly become my favourite novel. I sat through every version of the novel that she and my mother could find (which at the time was only three versions) and eventually went on to read the novel on my own. I had always loved reading, but I think this was the novel that truly awaken my connection to novels (lord, that does sound weird, doesn’t it?). My love for the story of Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy has…
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Tea Time at Reverie: Compassion For Mrs. Bennet’s Nerves Herbal Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“Oh Mr Bennet! How can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?” – Mrs. Bennet, Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
With each Tea Time, I like to pick a tea that’s noticeably different from the previous review. For example, after a lusciously bold and complex black tea last time, I decided to try an herbal blend next. I also was eager to revisit Bingley’s Tea’s Jane Austen Tea Series , since I fell in love with the first tea I sampled from them. So, out came my sample of Compassion For Mrs. Bennet’s Nerves. This blend of floral, mint, and fruit ingredients is inspired by the matriarch of the Bennet family in Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice. Frequently nervous and easy to upset, Mrs. Bennet (whose sole desire in life seems to be marrying off her daughters) would no doubt benefit from a…
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Every Girl Dreams of Mr. Darcy
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Writer: Jane Austin (novel), Deborah Moggach (screenplay)
Director: Joe Wright
Year: 2005
Actors: Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Bennett) and Matthew MacFadyen (Mr. Darcy)
Story: Pride and Prejudice is a 2005 film that tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett and her quest to marry for love. In a time where a young lady’s best hope was to marry a wealthy man, Elizabeth can find many reasons why not to marry. She wants to fall in love and marry the man that she loves. The one man, Mr. Darcy, that she despises the most, is the one that steals her heart.
Plot: The film opens with a house full of girls, giggling, reading, playing a harpsichord, or doing needlework in the Georgian Era in England. They are excited about a new eligible bachelor (Mr. Bingley), his friend (Mr. Darcy), and sister (Caroline Bingley) moving into a home not…
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Today in History – Writing – 15th Dec
On this day….
15th December 1815 Jane Austin’s “Emma” was published.
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich.” Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people’s lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.
This formula of novel-writing has been re-written and adapted many times for both television and theatre. One of the recent adaptions that managed to adapt the attention of younger generations was Clueless (1995) by Amy Heckerling. This movie follows the formula of Emma but adapted to a include a modern-day high school society and spoilt teenager.
But both this novel and movie…
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Women’s Wit & Wisdom ~ January 19th
I completely agree.
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
~ Jane Austin (1775-1817), English Novelist
Pride
Being the middle child really puts a strain on someone, so I have come here to vent, about my lovely sister Elizabeth. She rides a very high horse for being considered intelligent and quick witted. Her horse riding might seem justified but when you realize that she is being compared to people like Lydia and my mother you can see that it really is not a great accomplishment. The worst part about her is the amount of pride she has for herself. It is really quite aggravating how highly she thinks of herself but you can only think sorry that YOU think your better than Mr. Collins but nobody else does and did she really want to die alone.Her wit does not make her better than anyone else, I mean people consider ME the most accomplished girl in the neighborhood. She can’t even play a piano properly like does she have any skill set that doesn’t include mouthing off to people. She definitely prides herself on being a good judge of character but she thought Wickham was a good person and Mr. Collins wasn’t. I don’t think she should be priding herself on that, now should she. Lastly for being someone so definitive in her ways when deciding to marry Darcy she became very wishy washy. It’s odd though because you would think Darcy is the one with the pride but really it’s her. Sometimes I just don’t understand why she thinks so highly of herself and with such pride as well because she has as many flaws as anyone else and really when you tally it up her and Darcy are no better than each other or anyone else. For example Darcy’s Flaws: prejudice, can’t make friends (especially with those beneath him), arrogant, and he is definitely a monster of the social class structure. Elizabeth’s Flaws: pride, naive (Wickham, someone like him isn’t unmarried when they appear to be as great as him unless he has some major character flaws), critical, and also another monster of the social class structure but just in a different way, and by this I mean that by being from the lower to middle class and having her amount of intelligence and wit has inflated her pride enormously.
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