{"id":200,"date":"2020-04-14T20:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:31:51","slug":"pride-and-prejudice-chapters-35-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/pride-and-prejudice-chapters-35-41\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>: Chapters 35-41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-3355660\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/829264\/3355660-pride-and-prejudice-chapters-35-to-41.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-3355660&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we talk about Darcy&#8217;s letter and Elizabeth&#8217;s reaction to it, consider what Wickham might have done in his youth, revisit the Collins marriage, discuss Mr Bennet&#8217;s abrogation of parental responsibility and look at how Elizabeth is now seeing her family through new eyes. We then look at the character of Lydia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this episode, we are joined by Michael, who gives us some background information about the militia and the regular army in Jane Austen&#8217;s time. Harriet looks at how the film and television adaptations deal with dramatising the letter, and the presentation of Lydia, and Michael adds a couple of points about the military uniforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Things we mention:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Books: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Claire Tomalin, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50376.Jane_Austen\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen: A Life<\/a><\/em> (1997) <\/li><li> John Burrows,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1056390.Computation_into_Criticism\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Computation into Criticism: Study of Jane Austen&#8217;s Novels and an Experiment in Method<\/em><\/a> (1987)  <\/li><li>Amanda Grange, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/99297.Mr_Darcy_s_Diary\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mr Darcy&#8217;s Diary<\/em><\/a> (2005) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>William Hogarth, <em>A Rake&#8217;s Progress &#8211; III The Orgy<\/em><br><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"288\" height=\"240\" class=\"wp-image-201\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rake_progress_hogarth.jpg\" alt=\"William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress - III The Orgy\"><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Movies and television:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>MGM,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032943\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(1940) &#8211; starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier <\/li><li>BBC,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078672\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> (1980) &#8211; starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul<\/li><li>BBC,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112130\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(1995) &#8211; starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth<\/li><li>Focus Features,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0414387\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride &amp; Prejudice<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(2005) &#8211; starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen<\/li><li>Path\u00e9 Pictures International,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361411\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> (2004) &#8211; starring Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson<\/li><li>YouTube,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXfbQAimgtbk4RAUHtIAUww\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lizzie Bennet Diaries<\/em><\/a> (2012) \u2013 starring Ashley Clements and Daniel Vincent Gordh <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Creative commons music used:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Haydn_sonata_hob._XVI_23_mvt_1.oga\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 38. Performance by Ivan Ili\u0107, recorded in Manchester in December, 2006<\/a>. File originally from IMSLP.<\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart_-_sonata_no._13_in_b_flat_major,_k.333_-_iii._allegretto_grazioso.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, iii. Allegretto Grazioso<\/a>. File originally from Musopen.<\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_Frideric_Handel_-_suite_i,_no._2_in_f_major,_hwv_427_-_ii._allegro.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">George Frideric Handel, Suite I, No. 2 in F Major, ii. Allegro<\/a>. File originally from Musopen. <\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Beethoven_-_Piano_Sonata_No._28_in_A_Major,_Op._101_-_I._Etwas_lebhaft,_und_mit_der_innigsten_Empfindung.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major<\/a>. File originally from Musopen.   <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we talk about Darcy&#8217;s letter and Elizabeth&#8217;s reaction to it, consider what Wickham might have done in his youth, revisit the Collins marriage, discuss Mr Bennet&#8217;s abrogation of parental responsibility and look at how Elizabeth is now seeing her family through new eyes. We then look at the character of Lydia. For &#8230; <a title=\"Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 35-41\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/pride-and-prejudice-chapters-35-41\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>: Chapters 35-41<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}