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“How does Georgiana get on, Darcy?”

Mr Darcy spoke with affectionate praise of his sister’s proficiency.

“I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,” said Lady Catherine; “and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel if she does not practise a great deal.”

“I assure you, madam,” he replied, “that she does not need such advice. She practises very constantly.”

It’s a quiet moment, but <3

In retrospect, it’s all the sweeter, because we later discover how intensely shy and sensitive Georgiana is. It’s very probable that Lady Catherine is incredibly intimidating to her. So it’s all the more important for Darcy to stand up for Georgiana—which he does, although she’s not even there.

(It also provides an example for Elizabeth’s later recollection: she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling.)

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In the former were many good paintings; but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy’s, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible.

To this day, I’m not sure if I’m more delighted that a) Darcy collects pretentious incomprehensible art, b) he also collects Georgiana’s art and has it shown off at Pemberley when she isn’t even there, or c) Elizabeth genuinely likes Georgiana’s drawings and will undoubtedly be super supportive after her marriage.

[ETA 2/24/2022: I'm doubly amused that this very deep post somehow accumulated some 500 notes]

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Aesthetic post for the Fitzwilliams of Pride and Prejudice—my favourite of Austen’s families.

The extended Fitzwilliam family consists of the children and grandchildren of an unnamed earl, and several of them appear in P&P: Lady Catherine de Bourgh (née Lady Catherine Fitzwilliam), Fitzwilliam Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Anne de Bourgh, and Georgiana Darcy.

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An anon said:

hey, i've been going through your various P&P tags and I noticed these tags "#georgiana and lydia parallel each other to highlight their differences to highlight how little it matters anyway #they also parallel each other as part of the broader darcy--elizabeth parallels but not even getting into that" on this post /post/100262707898/warmed-up-rant and i was wondering if you ever went into how georgiana and lydia are part of the broader darcy/elizabeth parallels? i'd love to read it if so :)

I replied:

Hmm, it was some time ago, but I think I meant that Georgiana and Lydia occupy roughly similar positions in the narrative with respect to Darcy and Elizabeth respectively. They’re significantly younger sisters to Darcy/Elizabeth (and exactly the same ages as each other), they’re attractive but less so than Darcy/Elizabeth, they get led astray by Wickham in partial consequence of Darcy/Elizabeth’s inaction and are rescued in some form or another by Darcy.

(At the same time, they’re exact opposites in other ways—they operate as sorts of mirror images of each other.)

So it’s not just that Lydia and Georgiana are strikingly similar or starkly dissimilar at pretty much all times (and in either case, in ways that still associate them together). They’re also paralleled specifically in relation to Darcy/Elizabeth. And that makes the parallels between them feed into the broader Darcy/Elizabeth parallels that drive the novel (you can see something similar with Jane and Bingley, say, and perhaps Charlotte and Fitzwilliam, along with Mr/Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine). I would say that it’s the clearest way that they’re bound up in the overarching thrust of the story.

That’s in addition to their significance as vulnerable young girls whose radical differences of situation and personality don’t prevent them from being preyed upon in similar ways—reinforced by the fact that their predator is literally the same person.

They said:

parallels anon here - thank you! that makes a lot of sense, and it's given me a bit to think about with regards to how character dynamics aren't conceived in a vacuum, but are also influenced by the other characters they interact with :)

I responded:

I’m very glad to hear it :)

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Current Music: Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)

I felt like putting together dramatis personae of my headcanons for the Fitzwilliam and extended Darcy families, and by the time I was putting together a chart for the latter, was zooming merrily along. (Am I procrastinating grading? Maybe.)

Anyway, the actual current Fitzwilliam headcanons c. 1796 [assuming a 1795-6 calendar for P&P, which I do]:

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An anon asked:

What are your thoughts on Pride and Prejudice (1995 miniseries)?

I said:

Oh, anon.

It’s pretty good TV, occasionally interesting in its takes on Austen, and I bitterly hate it. My #pride and prejudice 1995 tag (eta: p&p2 tag here) is dedicated almost entirely to hating it, for variously major and petty reasons.

My main ‘and THIS IS WHY’ posts are here and here, however. They’re older posts, but I haven’t budged since then.

(My main pet peeves are converting Darcy’s smiles to brooding or snappish UST, especially in the argument at Netherfield; the general broodification of Darcy; the wet shirt scene; the painfully influential I-will-only-marry-for-love scene; Wickham flirting with 11-year-old Georgiana; leaving out ‘God bless you’; …actually I’ll stop there.)

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Then I wrote this one in two days. Okay, self.

title: tolerably well acquainted (6/?)
verse: Comforts and Consequences
characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy; Mrs Gardiner, Mrs Annesley, Georgiana Darcy, Caroline Bingley, Louisa Hurst; Darcy/Elizabeth
stuff that happens: Elizabeth and Mrs Gardiner pay their visit to Georgiana; Darcy joins them; Caroline tries to intervene in Darcy and Elizabeth's increasing rapport.
previous sections: one, two, three, four, five

“This is my companion, Mrs Annesley. Mrs Annesley, these are some of Fitzwilliam’s friends—Mrs Gardiner and her niece, Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”

Elizabeth almost started. She might have decided that she regarded Darcy as a peculiar sort of friend, but she had not expected to hear herself identified as such immediately afterwards. And while, of course, she knew that Darcy had a Christian name, and knew it well from perusing his letter so many times, he was so much Darcy to her that she never thought of him that way.

Fitzwilliam’s friend. What an idea!

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title: tolerably well acquainted (4/?)
verse: Comforts and Consequences
characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy; Mr Gardiner, Mrs Gardiner, Georgiana Darcy, Charles Bingley; Darcy/Elizabeth
stuff that happens: Elizabeth manages to meet with Darcy, Georgiana, and (unexpectedly!) Bingley without disaster.
previous sections: one, two, three

“Once,” said Elizabeth impulsively, “when I was at Rosings, your aunt ordered him to lecture you about practising on the pianoforte. He told her, without a moment’s pause, that you did not need it.”

Miss Darcy coloured, but looked almost happy.

“I have only just met him,” remarked Mrs Gardiner, “but that is exactly what I should expect. I am not sure I would always know what to expect from him, however. I have the impression that his is a complex character—do you not think so, Lizzy?”

How could she not?

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One of my favourite pieces of characterization in P&P is a single phrase in Darcy’s letter–about Wickham.
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lexiconallie at Tumblr asked:

What do you think of the 1980 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice? It's on hulu if you haven't seen it and you're interested (add watch/550364 after hulu's url) It seems very accurate to the book and it's my personal favorite adaptation.

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I didn't sign up for

month_of_meta , but I did want to do something, preferably several somethings, as they occurred to me. A lot of this is probably familiar to my f-list (I originally did it on Tumblr), but I think it's worth repeating a few dozen times :)

disclaimer: it doesn’t mean your fic is terrible badwrong if you don’t do these things or that nobody likes it or that your fic is even not good or that I am a perfect Georgian-period Austen fanwriter who has followed this to the letter from seventeen onwards, it’s just stuff that makes me (and most of my friends, but don’t worry, I’m not a BNF), more likely to read. Also, I tried to list things that are helpful for fic based on any of the novels, but the examples are from P&P since that’s like 95% of the fandom.

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wyncatastrophe prompted me to write a fic about one of my anti-ships, and I don't think I anti-ship much more fervently than this one - inspired by a recent debate I peripherally participated in, but I've always hated this ship:

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I'm a little behind, but I spent seven hours at the mall yesterday, so I don't feel I'm slacking that much! These ones are both totally obvious, anyway.

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Current Music: Like You
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I clearly do not have an essay on Eliza Haywood to write. La!

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Title: First Impressions (10/13, 11/13)

Fanverse: First Impressions

Blurb: awkward meeting is awkward, the Gardiner-Darcy mutual admiration society is formed, and apparently I am super ambiguous about Henry's opinion of Catherine.

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Title: Through A Glass, Darkly

Fanverse: The Quality of Mercy; Through A Glass, Darkly; Revenge of the Jedi, sort of

Blurb: Leia gets her chance to deal with her heritage. In baby-steps.

Pairings/warnings: No pairings; original character; so AU of my AU (Revenge of the Jedi) that it's canon-compliant; a challenge to myself to get two characters who, properly, could never, ever meet into the same scene.

Length: one-shot/double-drabble, kinda (272 words)

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Yes, the one due today. Eh.

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( OTP meme, gen version! )

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Okay, maybe not quite afternoon. Anyway.

Oh! There was an interesting essay on Slave Leia here. I pretty much agree on the in-story level, and completely disagree on the meta-level; I think it's gratuitous fanservice, its use of valuable screentime shortchanges other plotlines (most notably the Vader-Luke one which is kind of the main point), the blatant male gaze-iness makes it uncomfortable for me to even watch, and Carrie Fisher's forced weight loss makes it still worse. And ... well, I won't bother recapping, since I covered all my feelings on it in this essay. So I do think Fangirl gave the men who came up with that sequence way too much credit.

Back to meming!

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I've never really been into memes, but I stumbled across this at

sixbeforelunch 's dw, and thought "huh, why not?" So - yeah, here goes:

six pairings I love:

(1) Darcy/Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice (book only)

(2) Booth/Brennan, Bones

(3) Anne/Gilbert, Anne of Green Gables

(4) Cor/Aravis, Narnia

(5) Harry/Luna, Harry Potter

(6) Eric/Ariel, The Little Mermaid

three pairings I like:

(7) William the Conqueror/Matilda of Flanders, RL

(8) Colonel Fitzwilliam/Mary Crawford, Pride and Prejudice/Mansfield Park

(9) James/Lily, Harry Potter

three pairings I never liked:

(10) Ginny/Harry, Harry Potter

(11) Marianne/Brandon, Sense and Sensibility

(12) Georgiana/Colonel Fitzwilliam, Pride and Prejudice

two pairings that piqued my interest:

(13) Mary Lennox/Colin Craven, The Secret Garden

(14) Georgiana/the earl's heir, Pride and Prejudice

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During one of my periodic longings for nice, long, Darcy/Elizabeth fluff, I decided to sit down and write some. This - a sort of sequel to Left to Follow - is what came out.

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I cannot say how many times I have heard certain fanon "facts" about appearance repeated over and over - and they're not just popular and prevalent, like a good deal of fanon, either. With appearance, people will actually insist that they're what Austen/the book says. e.g., Jane is listed under the TV Tropes entry "Hair of Gold," with this explanation:

Following the frequent book descriptions as 'fair-haired', in the two most recent film adaptations of Pride And Prejudice, the prettiest (and most innocent) daughter, Jane, is a blonde

It's stretched far beyond purely Internet fanon, too: Colin Firth's hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were actually dyed for the 1995 P&P; blonde Jennifer Ehle wore a dark wig for Elizabeth and even Susannah Harker's naturally blonde hair was lightened. Mary got spots, and Mr Collins grease. The 2005 P&P likewise gave Keira Knightley a wig much darker than her naturally light brown/dark blonde hair, and Matthew Macfadyen insisted that he wasn't dark enough to physically resemble Austen's Darcy.

So, given the rampant assumptions and clichés, I decided to track down what canon actually tells (or more often, doesn't tell) us about what the characters look like.

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[reposted from wordpress]

It’s a common fiction that Elizabeth Bennet is the narrator of Pride and Prejudice, or that the story is told solely from her perspective. Those arguing for a nicer, gentler Darcy (or, alternatively, a crueller and less virtuous one), often invoke the argument – e.g., “we only see what Elizabeth sees,” or “we only see him through Elizabeth’s eyes” – ignoring the many occasions when we see his thoughts – or Bingley’s, Mrs Bennet’s, Lydia’s, Jane’s, Georgiana’s, Mrs Gardiner’s, Mr Bennet’s, Caroline’s, etc etc.

Of course, Pride and Prejudice is not told (or seen through the eyes of) any one of these people. It has – in common with all the Austen novels – an omniscient narrator. She relates the story – events, thoughts, perceptions – usually as the characters themselves would see/think/perceive them. Sometimes, however, she reverts to her Voice of God authority, speaking as herself and saying This Is So.

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