#WonderousWednesdag
1. We‘ll, I plan on getting to England at some point, because I‘ve read so much about it.
2. Yeah if I really like a book, I will buy a copy.
3. I‘d say cover first. Then back cover write up. Some authors, I‘ll read their backlist.
“Young ladies must guard their reputation at all times; a male relative or servant should accompany you when travelling.
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Lady Catherine de Bourgh insists it would be ‘highly improper‘ for Elizabeth Bennet and Maria Lucas to #travel unaccompanied by post: ‘Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.‘ Elizabeth reassured her ladyship that her uncle would send a servant for them.”
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“You‘ll begin your day writing letters, or perhaps going shopping before breakfast, which is served about half-past nine or ten o‘clock. Ladies usually breakfast on a dish or cup of fragrant #tea or coffee, chocolate and rolls or toast in the breakfast room, or in front of a roaring fire in the family library; or the servant may bring you breakfast in bed. Gentlemen tuck into heartier fare: eggs, fish and meat.”
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Primogeniture has unfortunate consequences for an eldest son‘s siblings. Younger brothers must find themselves a profession: the army or navy, the church, a government sinecure, the law, or if there is no alternative, commerce (not genteel)
In Northanger, you have the rakish Captain Tilney as the elder son and heir, and Henry as the clergyman. Henry is very comfortably placed - the only unfortunate circumstances are his #sibling and father!
“In Emma, Mr Knightley‘s estate manager, William Larkins, is very pleased when lots of apples are sold from Donwell Abbey farm. If you have plenty of land but little spare cash like Mr Knightley, you can dine on luxuries like fresh strawberries from the gardens.
#Rich landowners, like Pride and Prejudice‘s Mr Darcy, have hothouses for growing tender fruits such as grapes, nectarines and peaches.”
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My favorite story from this book! And it covers a few prompts 😉
Jane was helping to nurse her brother through a nasty illness when one of his doctors, who also attended the Prince Regent [ruling in place of his #parents] realised that Jane was the author of #Pride and Prejudice. One day he told Jane that the Prince ‘often‘ read her #novels and ‘kept a set in every one of his residences.‘ Accordingly he informed the Prince she was in London. ⬇️
“#Music is considered an ideal accomplishment for young ladies and Jane Austen‘s brother Henry recalled that when at Chawton, she ‘practised [the pianoforte] daily, chiefly before breakfast.‘”
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Jane was quite pleased her books earned #money
“Austen‘s books turned a modest but welcome profit, even though they were published at her own expense. By the summer of 1813 she had received 648 for the copyright of Pride and Prejudice, plus another 660 profit from Sense and Sensibility (which had sold out). … ‘I have now, therefore, written myself into 6a8, which only makes me long for more,‘ she wrote to her brother Frank.
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Mr Darcy‘s cousin Miss de Bourgh is destined to have a ‘very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates,‘ - according to George Wickham. 🙄
#marriage #200PnPcovers
The Royal Mail service was overhauled in 1784, when entrepreneur John Palmer‘s plan was adopted of sending #mail by coach, instead of postboys on horseback. … On special occasions such as May Day, or when there‘s important news like Nelson‘s victory at Trafalgar, the mail coaches and horses are festooned with ribbons and decorations.
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“This book will help you find your feet in Austen‘s England, whether you are a fond parent hoping to launch your sons and daughters into the best society, a young gentleman or lady looking for #love , or a traveller keen to enjoy all the amusements that the towns and countryside have to offer.”
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Traveller Richard Ayton was shocked when he visited the genteel resort of Parkgate, Cheshire in 1813:
Few of both sexes thought it necessary to hide themselves under the awning of bathing machines: posts, with ropes fastened to them, are fixed into the sands, and these were taken possession of by numerous groups of women, six or seven in a row, jumping, ducking, laughing and screaming, evidently as careless of being seen as of being drowned.
“The marriages of minors (people under 21) who wed without their parents‘ consent are not legal, even with a special licence. But Hardwicke‘s Act does not apply to Scotland: there it is legal for people as young as 16 to marry without parental consent.
The village of Gretna Green lies temptingly just over the Scottish border, and it is the first destination of choice for #hundreds of runaway marriages.”
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After our recent cold snap, this spoke to me 😆
On 28 December 1798, Parson Woodforde complained in his diary that it was so cold that: ‘it froze in every part of the House – Milk & Cream tho‘ kept in the Kitchen all froze – Meat like blocks of Wood – It froze in [the] Kitchen even by the fire in a very few Minutes... Even the Meat in our Pantry all froze & also our Bread – I think the Cold was never more severe in my Life‘
#houses #200PnPcovers
“Jane wrote to Cassandra: I have received a very civil note from Mrs Martin, requesting my name as a subscriber to her library... Mrs Martin tells me that her collection is not to consist only of novels, but of every kind of literature, etc. She might have spared this pretension to our family, who are great novel-readers, and not ashamed of being so; but it was necessary, I suppose, to the self-consequence of half her subscribers.”
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When Thomas Moore stayed in London for the first time in April 1799, he wrote to his mother: ‘… if I had indulged in going out often… there is scarce a night that I should not be at some female #gossip party, to drink tea, play a little crambo [a rhyming game], and eat a sandwich.‘
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I love the #friendship between Jane and Cassandra, as evidenced in their entertaining letters. #200PnPcovers
‘Horsemen and footmen, carriages of every description and every shape, waggons and carts and covered carts, stagecoaches… coaches, chariots, chaises, gigs, buggies, curricles and phaetons; the sound of their wheels ploughing through the wet gravel was as continuous and incessant as the roar of waves on the sea beach.‘
#200PnPcovers #conveyances
The London ‘season‘ is the busiest time of the year for socialites, and the nobility and great county families like Mr Darcy‘s in Pride and Prejudice keep a house in town. The ‘season‘ begins early in the New Year and continues until early summer, when families decamp to their #country retreats or fashionable watering holes.
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(📷 Pemberley aka Lyme Park)
“During the winter months you‘ll often see the city wreathed in thick smoke; it wears a more cheerful aspect in spring and summer.”
#200PnPcovers #city
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“A family with children living on Qc–5,000 p.a. needs 11 female and 13 male servants: ‘A Housekeeper, Cook, Lady‘s Maid, Nurse, two House-maids, Laundry-Maid, Still-room Maid, Nursery-maid, Kitchen-maid, and Scullion, with Butler, Valet, House-Steward, Coachman, two Grooms, one assistant ditto, two Footmen, three Gardeners, and a Labourer.‘”
“When Catherine Morland attends her first ball in the Upper Rooms at Bath in Northanger Abbey, the ball-room is so crowded that she can see very little of the dancers except ‘the high feathers of some of the ladies‘.”
#balls #200PnPcovers #PnPCovers
#BookBub Deal!!!
$1.99 on #Amazon
Hurry and snag your copy!
#Pemberlittens
In a reading slump at the minute, hoping this gets me back on track. #Austen
#BoobBub deal!
This book is $1.99
Here‘s the link to #Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ONZQAOI?_bbid=18351624&tag=bookbubemail1-20
#PemberLittens
#pemberlittens This is on sale as an eBook from #Amazon, #Nook, #Kobo, #applebooks or #google. However you read ebooks. Also Love & Friendship is on for 99 cents. I don‘t know if this is US only or if it‘s available internationally.
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