Wow! A great gift for a P and P Lover!

Found on Esty.com :

Adorn your home with these festive literary ornaments!

Two clear glass ornament are tediously filled with strips of almost two pages of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Many of the strips are arranged in such a way that you can read some sentences, which is delightful indeed!

Love the Painting .......check out the hat...umm...bonnet!

This is an early Regency portrait (1790s) by Vigee' le Brun.
this picture was found at Sensibility.com

Pride and Prejudice and Fashion

I was looking for information on clothing during the Pride and Prejudice time period when I found this info.
Notice the jacket that Elizabeth wears in the picture at the top of the blog is one of these Spencer Jacket talked about below.

A Lady Wearing a Spencer to read. A Spencer was perfect to keep chills away.

Earl Spencer and the Short Spencer Jacket 1795 - Regency Fashion history - 1817 - Very Short Cropped Spencer Jacket.

The Spencer was a short top coat without tails worn by men during the 1790s as an extra covering over the tailed coat. It had long sleeves and was frequently decorated with military frogging. Picture of woman wearing a Spencer.Its originator is thought to be Earl Spencer who singed the tails of his coat when standing beside a fire. He then had the tails trimmed off and started a fashion.

A female version was soon adopted by gentlewomen who at the time were wearing the thin light muslin dresses of the 1790s.

The Spencer was worn as a cardigan or shrug is worn today. It was a short form of jacket to just above waist level cut on identical lines to the dress.


Left - A very cropped short high waisted Regency Spencer of 1817.

The Spencer was worn both indoors and outdoors and for evening wear and was made of silk or a wool material known as kerseymere. When it was worn as an indoor evening Spencer it was called a canezou. Spencers stayed in fashion for about 20 years whilst the waistline remained high.

This lemon Regency Spencer is from a fashion plate of 1818.

When the waist slowly began its drop on dresses so did the waist of the Spencer.


information found at Fashion-era.com/regency_fashion

you can find patterns for the dresses and for the spencer jackets here at Sensibility.com

Her Affections.....

Sometimes one officer, sometimes another, had been her favourite, as their attentions raised them in her opinion. Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.

Elizabeth and Darcy

I love, love, love this video!
Whoever or is it whomever....put this song, "I Hate You then I Love You", with these clips is a flippin' genius! Okay that's a little strong...but it was a great idea.

BBC Pride and Prejudice.....the final proposal...sigh

Oh, how heartily.....

Oh, how heartily did she grieve over every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him.

(Watercolor Illustration by C. E. Brock)

"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."

(Mr. Bennett to Mrs. Bennett)

Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in her admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!

1940's Pride and Prejudice Clip....the Proposal

Definitely NOT my favorite film version of P&P but it does have it's good points.
I think they tried to make it into a comedy (why?) and ,of course, the costumes are sooooo wrong!

"Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father; "she times them ill."



Lydia and Kitty from the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me...."

Now They're Just Being Silly...

Good Grief!!
First there was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it came out in April of this year and I read it (here's my blog on that book).

It's actually a fun, though strange, book. Its especially fun if you know P&P backwards and forwards.

But noooow....we have Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange.

Just when you think it's safe to go back to the bookstore!

Apparently Ms. Grange starts her story where Pride and Prejudice ends and introduces a dark Darcy family curse.
Okay, like....how the heck did we miss that the man was a vampyre???
I'm sure she explains it.

Ms Grange also wrote Mr. Darcy's Diary which I have read. It was okay not my favorite Mr Darcy background book.
The best of those might be Pamela Aidan's trilogy of books, the Fitzwilliam Darcy: Gentleman series. I enjoyed Ms. Aidan's books, there are three of them, and I read them simultaneously while rereading P&P, it really added to the experience. Sorta like hearing Darcy's thoughts as well as Elizabeth's.

Mr Darcy, Vampyre comes out in August. I doubt if I will be able to stop myself from reading it. Hopefully it will be as fun and lighthearted as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I wonder what's next???? Elizabeth Bennet-Darcy, Werewolf????

You Mistake Me.....

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least."



Watercolor Illustration by C. E. Brock

The Beginning

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."