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Pretty cat wants some TLC ❤ from mom Ellie.

I found the linen so interesting. I didn't even know what linen was made from- I had never thought about it! I do love to wear linen in summer.

I often hear people read the famous line as "not handsome enough to tempt ME", while I hear it in my head as "not handsome enough to TEMPT me", which is about 10% less arrogant :) What do you think?

Shout out to my dad who indirectly made liking P&P "okay" for a Tomboy like me to like. As I was growing up I pushed away all "girly" things. But I also noticed as I got older that my dad outwardly expressed his appreciation for "feminine" things: musicals, romances, etc. And I realized that it was okay for me to like that stuff. I didnt need to justify to myself or anyone else that I liked girly AND boy-ish things. I just liked them. That made me so much more secure in myself.

Darcy is someone who has not only lost his mother but also his father at a relatively young age. Taking on massive responsibilities not only of the families estate, but also having to take care of his young sister who clearly is easily manipulated. Do I think he is shy or a jerk? I think at such a young age he has become jaded to gatherings and balls. That he probably feels like he can’t be vulnerable with anyone because it will open him up to be taken advantage of.

I think a version of that line actually goes to Lydia in Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation!

As an introvert, even if forced, the idea of people having to leave me alone after 10-15 minutes max sounds really appealing 😂

I want to get this.

❤ the way you dress, talk, style. Good insight. Thanks

1995 P&P: Mr. Darcy is haughty, and undergoes a redemption arc, becoming less haughty and more welcoming. Meanwhile, his sister, Miss Darcy, is really shy, and thanks to her past, somewhat afraid of the world, and finds it difficult to trust newcomers (except she trusts Elizabeth from the start, because of the way Mr. Darcy spoke about her, and that trust is rewarded). 2005 P&): Mr. Darcy is shy and scared of people, and needs help coming out of his turtle shell. Meanwhile, his sister, Miss Darcy, is, despite her past with Mr. Wickham, open and trusting and willing to love anyone who happens to come into her path. I prefer 1995, not only because it is closer to the books, as written, but because I love a good redemption arc, AND I think it makes more sense for a young woman who has been wildly put-upon to be, in fact, a bit gun-shy and scared of the world, and new people. She has been HURT! Devastated, even. In 2005, it would appear she hasn't been affected by Wickham, at all! I don't like that. Probably because when I was young, I was hurt, and it made me unable to bear to be even touched by people I did not already know and love. I relate to 1995 Georgiana SO MUCH MORE. Although, as a film, and not as an adaptation (that is to say, if the people creating the movie were just making a movie, and not adapting a novel), I just love Georgiana. She's just SO COMPLETELY LOVABLE. Which makes me really just want to slap Wickham's face clean off his head for even trying to hurt her, even though it is clear that she got all the help she needed, so that it did not distress her for very long. It's sort of like watching Bridgerton, and telling myself, "This is a WAAAAAAAY OFF alternate universe, and there is NO actual history here, except for the names of the king and queen, and the fact that the king is, in fact, mad." I can enjoy the series, that way, if I keep reminding myself of that. But in actuality, Georgiana would have been spiritually and emotionally injured, as well as socially terrified. If her secret EVER got out, she'd be ruined. And she knows it. The part where she plays the pianoforte, with Ellizabeth turning the pages for her, in the 1995 version, is SO TELLING. I love it SO MUCH. And the only three people who actually know just how much it means are not saying anything to anyone about it. But in that moment, Georgiana would have told Darcy to marry Elizabeth, NO MATTER WHAT HE HAD TO DO TO GET HER. Maybe she DID. Maybe, off-screen, before Darcy went off to find Lydia and Wickham, he had a little chat with Georgiana about it, and explained that another young lady was in that man's clutches, and it was, in fact, Elizabeth's younger sister, and Elizabeth faced ruin, and Georgiana snapped at him, "Don't just stand there! SAVE THEM! SAVE THEM ALL! You cannot let Elizabeth be ruined on HIS account!" "But, she doesn't love me. She'll never marry me." "What does that matter?" "You're right." Yeah, it's not specified in the books, but in my head-cannon, Georgianna knows about what Darcy planned to do, because she TOLD HIM to do it. He was still feeling the last vestiges of pride, but HER love for Elizabeth was enough to push him right over the edge into actually HELPING THE MAN HE HATES MOST, and making it so that he would be RELATED to the guy, if Elizabeth ever said yes. I mean, that is HARD for any man to swallow, even if he is in love. But if the little sister he loves and adores tells him, "Not only is it OK, but it's THE ONLY THING TO DO, Brother!" I never really thought of it, before, but in "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries," they show Georgiana telling Darcy that he has to step up. "It's partly our fault, because we didn't expose him, when we had the chance. We hid the truth from the world, to protect our own feelings, and that allowed him to be free to prey on others." So, yeah, head-cannon. Although, in Liziie Bennet Diaries, they do make Darcy more of "an awkward turtle" than a pride man who needs redemption. But, there is definitely a small redemption arc for him, as well.

When I was in high school, I wrote a poem, and it got printed in our literary magazine, which was sold to the students. Well, one of my classmates came up to me and said, "I read your poem! I really like it!" And then she went on AT LENGTH, telling me what I meant. "No, I just wrote that I was really confused in math class one day." "Yeah, but what you MEANT was..." "Ummmm, OK." Similarly, whoever it was who wrote about "The path less traveled," and how he was tired, and had to get home, because he had promises to keep, has been told by avid readers, MANY TIMES, what he meant by those lines, only to be told by him, "Nope. I was TIRED, and had a long road to go to get home, and I STILL HAD STUFF TO DO, once I got there." It was all quite literal for him. As a writer, who has been told that I didn't mean what I meant, and even worse, that I did not KNOW what I meant when I wrote the thing, I can understand the sheer frustration of trying to convince people that I AM NOT THAT DEEP. And yet, at the same time, I was kind of proud that I had written something that SEEMED all deep, and that had, somehow, touched a person's soul. Art, be it visual, audible, written, filmed, sculpted, or performed, is weird. It's JUST WEIRD. It WILL be interpreted by the consumer, whether we, as creators, want them to interpret it, or not. We may simply want to say, "Look. I was JUST telling you about my DAY, OK?!" but there WILL be somebody, somewhere, who takes it as a metaphor for life. And that is the beauty of art. Something that seems so simple can touch people in ways that we never expected. I think it IS important to note that, as you say, Austen "baked" these characters, and created them the way she meant to. But, if we learn the lessons she wanted to teach us, by actually giving grace to characters she judged harshly, I think that is no bad thing. Within reason. Anyone who says, "Oh, Mr, Willoughby was a true gentleman, after all. Sure, he seduced a fifteen-year-old girl, impregnated her, and left her alone, but that's NO BIG DEAL because..." I will fight them. You want to give him grace? OK. Give him grace. But DO NOT say that he was a gentleman, after all. THERE ARE LIMITS. Speaking of giving grace to Mr. Collins, have you seen "The Lizzy Bennet Diaries"? It's a RUclips series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that took a couple of years I think, to complete, with weekly posts. I do believe it actually got an Emmy. Anyway, if you have a few days to invest in a bit of marathon viewing, it's quite worth it. And not only do they give grace to Mr. Collins, and make him out to be a merely mildly annoying, but not so bad guy, what they do for Lydia is PHENOMENAL!!! Oh, my word! It's AMAZING! And highly educational, as well. It teaches about emotional abuse and manipulation and red flags, and just SO MUCH! It might actually be the best part of the whole adaptation, and that is saying something, because it is a BRILLiANT modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

19:05 If the narrator says a character is handsome, that simply means that the character fits the mold of society's visual aesthetic at the time. What Jane Austen considered handsome might turn many of us off, today, and vice versa. And then, you must also consider, "Just how much does 'handsome is as handsome does' come into play in this particular character?" For example, the Bennet girls are largely declared to be uncommonly pretty, by the people of the neighborhood. However, is that because they fit the visual aesthetic of the time and place, or because they are simply WELL-LIKED? A popular girl may be plain, but be so dang charming that nobody even noticed, anymore. See Mr. Crawford of Mansfield Park. At first, Mariah and Julia call him "Black and plain," and the next thing you know, "He is not so VERY plain," and then, he's the most handsome man of their acquaintance. It's ALL subjective, including the narrative voice Actions are definitive. "John did this thing." Did John do the thing? Yes, he did. Unless the person speaking about John is a dirty, rotten LIAR, then John did the thing. But looks are subjective, and character must be, to a certain extent, subjective, as well, even from the narrative voice. Mr. Darcy was described by the narrator as haughty, but is that a description of CHARACTER or BEHAVIOR? He certainly BEHAVED haughtily. But was he ACTUALLY haughty? Personally, I like Darcy BEING haughty, to start, and gradually warming up to judging people with a different yardstick than before, and changing from being haughty and judgmental to compassionate and unjudgmental. Chapter 1 Darcy would not have given the Gardiners the time of day, UNLESS they were his tenants, in which case, he'd give them the time of day, as a landlord, but he would not socialize with them. He'd maintain excellent business relations, but make it clear that they are never going to dine at Pemberly. But, Chastened Darcy, who wants to prove that he IS a gentleman, (SO THERE, MISS ELIZABETH BENNET!!!) socializes with them, because they are with HER, and it would be rude to exclude them, while he is socializing with her, and then, very quickly sees that hey are TOTALLY AWESOME PEOPLE and likes them for who they are. After that, he'd socialize with them, even if Elizabeth turned him down again. He is willing to break the rules of his class, for PEOPLE. It's like how I prefer the ORIGINAL Star Wars, before George Lucas came back and "fixed things." HAN SHOT FIRST! In the original, he did NOT dodge a laser, just so he could be acting in self defense. Han Solo WAS a scoundrel, in the first place. He found his inner hero and brought that to the fore. But it took work and determination to BECOME the hero of Empire Strikes Back, and even more work to become the hero of Return of the Jedi. Han Solo's personal development was part of what made those movies so MAGNIFICENT. Therefore, while putting Mr. Darcy on the Autism spectrum may make him more accessible to a large number of modern readers (many of whom have loved ones on the spectrum), it does, in my opinion, subtract from the glory of Mr. Darcy's ACTUAL GROWTH as a person. If he's on the spectrum, then he merely learns better how to "mask," and work with people. But, if he was haughty, in the beginning (because he had been brought up with good principles, but left to follow them in selfishness and conceit), then it just shows how much 1) he actually, truly does love and respect Elizabeth, and that this is not just lust, and 2) their love is an actual transformative love that makes BOTH of them better people, in general, as well as better matches for each other, and 3) how much people NEED to have a partner who challenges them, as well as loves them, in order to become better people. Jane Austen was not ONLY writing about love and romance. She was also writing about morality, and how to be a better person. Emma needed her Mr. Knightly, and Mr. Knightley needed Emma (though it was not so obvious for him. She softened him. He learned to see the good in a woman he would have ignored, but for Emma). Catherine Moreland needed Mr. Tilney, to teach her sense and reason, and he needed her, to show him the truth about his father. It's a theme that repeats in Jane Austen's work. Fanny Price learned how to think and feel, at the hands of Edmund, but SHE taught him to honor truth and moral fortitude, and not to judge based on looks and charm, alone. Every one of Jane Austen's major works is, in its own way, a morality play, as well as a romance novel. She teaches her readers how to live a GOOD life, as well as how to live a HAPPY one. Well, she was the daughter of a clergyman, after all.

I would love for you to cover being pregnant in the regency era. Unless you already have and I missed it.

Traumatizing childhood horse accident?

I think there is your personal reading and a general/historical reading, for example if you dont know english etiquette things in pride and prejudice goes over your head your interpretation of events is still valid, but the general or historical reading might be different. Like people look at Lydia and Wickham very differently now than when it first came out and both a valid just different

apparently I’m a Victorian housewife and I’m not even married.

Oooh! I like it when you highlight the comment to which you are responding!

My grandmother was sent home from school because she only speak German. She was born Ohio

I love the part about the gentleman escorting the lady back to her chaperone or seat. I see it SO OFTEN when the dance is over, the guy just makes a beeline to his next partner (or the wall, or another room, or wherever), leaving his partner standing there, alone, in the middle of the dance floor. I even noted seeing that on Bridgerton. However, as I told my sister, "Bridgerton is NOT Regency. There is NO historical accuracy, beyond the names of the king and queen, and it is all, in fact, set in an entirely different alternate universe, where they don't do anything the same way, and the clothes are GORGEOUS." But, still, leaving your partner hanging in the middle of the floor kind of sucks, even if she is immediately joined by a friend, who was also deserted in the middle of the dance floor, by a man who is SUPPOSED TO BE COURTING HER, and would, one assumes, want to spend every second he could with her.

I did not the outfit, but I’m inattentive and I was just listening while I clean.

Well on then, I am a sexagenarian and I thoroughly enjoyed your production - great job!

I wonder how horse ownership worked in these cases and how did they return them?

“It is quite a settled thing; and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough, I shall send round my cards.” Bingley, Regency Era Flex --

Link to the sweater please!

Thanks so much for these videos, Ellie! Hearing you read and discuss the chapters has been a fun way to re-visit Pride and Prejudice! 💗 Also, I completely agree about Mansfield Park. We need a new adaptation!

I’m reading Mansfield Park for the first time and I just read the ball scenes last night. I was trying to figure out if they danced two dances or two sets together?

NOW I understand why women always want to dance with me either two or four times.

Just saw this video. I always have to reacclimate myself to the way Jane Austen writes and the way the people talk. Kind of like listening to a person with a strong accent. It takes a minute but then I get it!

In the words of Squidward... "Oh no, he's hot!!" 🤣🤣😊

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I was the 1000th person to like this

Even better is if you arrange things so he asks you to dance right before dinner, so he ends up escorting you into dinner and sitting next to you during the meal.

I need to go back and finish that episode! I have so many questions 😅

I love learning about societal norms in different time periods

Im a history "buff" I have preferred subjects but all history is good history. Thanks for the content

More than one thing can be true at once. There's nothing that says Darcy can't be arrogant AND shy (or autistic). I've met some genuinely shy, introverted people who were also complete jerks once you got to know them.

So interesting. This reminds me of Mrs. Bennet talking about who danced with whom at the first ball in P&P (Mr. Bingley). I know Jane Austen was a woman ahead of her time. But did she ever talk about periods in her books by chance? All that dancing in those beautiful dresses made me think about it and how these things were handled by women of the time. Take care.

I remember the 2012 version of ‘Anna Karenina’ had a scene where the room is scandalised by Anna and Count Vronsky dancing while Kitty changes multiple dance partners.

Book: "I've been a selfish being all my life." RUclips commentator: He's neurodivergent or autistic. At least we know how you feel about neurodivergent and autistic people.

Hi from Estonia! :D I find your channel very interesting, thank you! Have spent happy hours here :)

The question is, "is he a jerk, or is he described as perceived?" as a way to introduce the pride and the prejudice. This makes the 2005 interpretation very reasonable, but it is not how I read it first in the 7th grade.

I enjoyed the chat at the end, and your cope of P&P is beautiful!

Hopefully Wickham goes to war and doesn’t come back. Even Elizabeth gets caught up in Wickham’s web of deceit until Darcy’s letter reveals his true nature.

Here’s the way around it, either Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet have to have a 6th that isn’t a girl. Or in his old age after Mrs Bennet dies, he gets a second wife and she has a son…wrote that before the end.

If you’re Mr Collins you don’t ask her father’s permission and you insult her lack of fortune

One bottle of wine per day makes you an alcoholic? I thought that was Saturday before 8pm.

I also think it's human to be a bit jerky at times, that adds to why Darcy is such a great romantic lead - he's not perfect and that's okay. He has many redeeming qualities as well that make up for his initial jerkiness.

I love it “when I’m healthy I’m just gonna wear cute outfits !!” 😅me too!!! ❤❤❤ you’re hilarious and beautiful Godspeed!!

I think anything is acceptable, if you can find an ugh evidence in the source material. As long as someone can logically share with me where their ideas come me from, then it's a fair interpretation. Even if I don't feel the same way.

I just started reading Pride and Prejudice and this was helpful! Thank you ❤