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Love this adaptation! I would like to recommend a great modern spin off (with the sexiest Darcy) ! It's called "Lost in Austen" and is great fun!

Wow, that was very insightful. I am looking forward to new videos, however long you want to make them. 🙂

Thinking of the importance of a good marriage, Mrs. Bennett’s fanatic efforts, Lydia‘s fate, and even Anne Elliot in Persuasion, I always picture Fanny Price’s mother. That will likely be Lydia‘s future, and the reason young ladies’ parents were so concerned about how much money they married.

About what you raised at the end, on how future adaptations would present Lydia’s situation: in both recent modern adaptations (Lizzie Bennet’s Diaries and Fire Island), they use the means od sex tape instead of elopement.

You speak (mostly) in Dollars instead of in Pounds, it matters a lot!

Shakespeare is in a sphere beyond June Austen. I like her work, but he's SHAKESPEARE. Also, the vocal fry needs to end before your next video.

Emma Woodhouse has 30,000 , Georgiana has 30,000 , Caroline Bingley has 20,000 , Miss Augusta Hawkins has 10,000 Miss Grey had 50,000. Miss Morton had 30,000 each a cash cow.🐮

I believe Mr Gardiner is a merchant.

The book never tells how they made money.

Excellent! Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

23:51 I concur that Darcy's only hobby IS staring

Great video; it’s both educational and entertaining. Hopefully you will upload another one to your channel eventually! Cheers.

TOBY Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek? MARIA Ay, he. TOBY Why, he has three thousand ducats a year! MARIA Ay, but he’ll have but a year in all these ducats. He’s a very fool and a prodigal. - Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 3. -- Surely there are other examples in the Shakespeare canon.

Caroline is basically a Kardashian. Plenty of people would read/watch her retelling of P&P.

so so good wish you made more breakdowns 🤍

Darcy was what is called a ""slow-to-warm-up" person. He knows only Bingely and his sisters and no one else in the room. He knows nothing of the economic status of the marriageable girls' anxious mamas and worried papas and he knows that his behavior with the girls or their parents will excite speculation, gossip, and rivalries. Darcy is a prudent man.

I loved this video so much & was sad when I saw the author hasn't made any more 🥲 I hope to see some more from them in the future!

I recall seeing someone once point out that the reason (or at least one of the reasons) Elizabeth feels she can afford to be picky and marry for love, is that she 1) trusts Jane to marry well, and 2) trusts Jane to provide for her, should she herself not marry anyone

Ha, when Bingley and Darcy visit Netherfield once again after the elopement and shotgun wedding, Jane is NOT apparently indifferent. It's brilliant facial acting, where she conveys her emotional turmoil so, so subtly.

I wonder whereabouts they shot the ramsgate scenes. There's no rock out to sea. It looks like Ailsa Craig, but surely not. I've booked it up, it was Weston-super-Mare

Great presentation. Thank you :)

"And she doesn't die in childbirth" That is alternatively the funniest thing you said in your essay and the most horrible, so very well done indeed

Awesome

Enjoyed this so much, thank you! I would gladly listen to those other 40 pages :) PS: 1995 adaptation is the one and only for me

This is an excellent analysis. ❤

I found myself wondering if Elizabeth would have felt differently in 7 years time, the same age as Charlotte, if she hadn't married Darcy. Sometime our ideals seem so important and perfect when we are young but later with the benefit of more experience we realize we might be wrong. When I first read P&P in highschool I of course idolized Lizzie but as I approached 40 as a single woman it was like "oh Charlotte you are so right". Yes I have the ability to make money and do well but even today two incomes are better than one when trying to buy a house etc vs renting an old basement suite with little light. However, I don't think Lizzie would have felt the hardships as much as the rest of the family once her father passed because her character seems able to socialize and fit in with anyone - except for the fact that she would see her friend in their old house with Mr. Collins and that might be a big (unintentional) "I told you so" in her face. Also I never thought of the part about the Gardiners before. Everyone always places the "change" in Darcy solely at the feet of Elizabeth refusing him but then it seems the Gardners played a huge role in this beyond taking her to Pemberly in the first place but rather in just being a symbol of goodness. I have always loved them as a couple

As you pointed out it is difficult to translate these incomes to modern readers. There are a couple of factors to consider that One British pound during this era was equivalent to 5 US dollars, so Darcy's yearly income was equivalent to $50,000 which was a huge fortune. Second, the other thing to consider that all of these estates were self sufficient in the sense that they produce nearly all of their own food. So, they had no rent or mortgage, most of their food was provided, so the monies that their state created was for labor/salaries, clothing, education of their family, maintaining the property etc. Darcy's 10,000 pounds per annum was equivalent to the income of many noble families, so his estate was grand. There were other Austen characters who were wealthier- Mr. Knightly of Emma had an income of around 12,000 pounds per years as did Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park. Most families that lived in London during this period who were in the merchant or skilled class salary to support a family was around 250 pounds per year. The noted architect George Nash, George lV's court appointed architect, was paid 600 pounds per year. This puts salaries in context.

I'm sorry this is so good

Iloved the explanation of why Bingley was so attached to Mr Darcy, i wondered that after reafing the book & seeing the 1995 series, i lovd this version solely

Very good, really enjoyed this. Reminder: Austen herself felt the sting of money prejudice when the family of her first love demanded that he not see Jane anymore.

Great video! I need to check out the rest of yours: I love a well-edited and entertaining regency deep-dive... (On a side-note, this makes me think of the original version of Beauty and the Beast, which I believe was written in the 18th century: the moral of the story is that you should marry a man who is kind, whether he is handsome and smart or not. Note that it says nothing about income, because only an idiot would marry a man without a good income...)

So awesome! Thank you for making this video. I totally enjoyed it. Thinking more about the characters motivations and now I want to read it again. 😂😊

I never understood why my English Great grandmother was disowned by her family for marrying beneath her station until reading Jane Austen. As in Emma, they wouldn’t associate with people below their income level, and were always looking to level up their social standing. My Grandmother used to say “Position is all in life”, and that’s where it came from.

This is such a great analysis, it made me consider aspects of the characters that I hadn't considered before. Thank you

Ty for this, I really throughly enjoyed it ❤

I'd love to hear your thoughts on her other novels as well. Great video!

Prey Who is Elizabeth King? who's inherited 10,000.00

My favourite book, 1995 my favourite adaptation. This is a wonderfully done, plus you added a snippet of George Michael's Careless Whisper.....perfect

It's not just that Jane was reserved; it wasn't proper for any well-bred young lady to wear her heart on her sleeve, as the saying goes. Lydia is a perfect example of a young lady who does (and look what happened to her).

Thank you for giving Georgette Heyer a shout-out!

I would love to hear that 40 pages of deleted notes!!!

Thank you for all these wonderful knowledge of English Society!! I just love watching that period & P&P is my very favorite!!

You have a wonderfully calm voice. Thank you.

Beth I had so much fun watching this! You have made me want to reread very much and reminded me that I shouldn’t watch 1995!

Jane Austen rivals Shakespeare. Huh??

Thank you. You're a kindred spirit, and I enjoyed your discussion very much and recommending you're video to others attracted to Austen and life during Regency times!

To find out what happens when a wealthy woman marries a fortune chaser, read Wilki Collins' novel The Woman in White written in 1860 but set ten years prior to it. Only in 1882 the British government passed the act about financial freedom for married women.

Well done, more please

“As women, they can’t inherit their father’s estate” My understanding is that this is not the case. Otherwise, how was Lady Catherine’s daughter a heiress of Rosings Park? I think the law would have made an exception for the Bennett family since they produced all girls but my understanding is that Mr. Bennett made no effort to rectify they situation.

Great discussion and recap. Nice take on Austen characters. They had a class system which worked fairly well for everyone but about half the women and children (kind of like now).