And of course..... our dear Lizzie Bennet.
In the 2005 movie Elizabeth is costumed/portrayed as the "tom boy" of the siblings and wears a dress that isn't too dissimilar to this style, which is based on 1790s portraiture. But now with more period accurate hair. The classics were back in style so piles of curls with fabric, crown, and headband ties were popular from about this time through the next decade at least.
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My favourite quotes from “Pride and Prejudice”
“That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
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“I have been used to consider poetry as the “food of love,” said Darcy.
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“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is to hate everybody.”
“And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”
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“I dare say you will find him very agreeable.”
“Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.”
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“Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
“And men take care that they should.”
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“…the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging.”
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“ A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off be some defense of some little peculiar vexation.”
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“It was a gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.”
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“My dear Lizzy, you cannot think me so weak, as to be in danger now ?”
“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.”
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“He is a gentleman; I am gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.”
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“My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
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“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, thought she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
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“…but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
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“I do, i do like him,”she replied, with tears in her eyes, “I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. You do not know what he really is; then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in such terms.”
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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
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Kitty (Catherine) Bennet
I really wondered about splitting the last two up... but why not i suppose. I’ve mentioned before how the 1790s were a time of confused/rapidly evolving fashion. The wild in-between of post-revolution and Empire waistlines. Great fun. This sort of gown that I’ve chosen for the youngest two is in that middle ground with the high waistlines, but closer to the fashions of earlier decades than for example Jane’s or Lizzy’s. It has a similar shape to that of Mary’s but is in bright fabrics with cheerful and traditionally feminine touches.
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rereading pride and prejudice in the original language while playlist of classical music on is an easy way to imagine being somewhere else.
in the garden of the house ,that is located in the countryside, where a sweet smell of blooming roses makes your head twirl. the sun warms your skin, although you attempting to hide from the sunlight under a tree. the book on your laps that you stole from your grandparents’ library became yellow and had the smell of time, as well as the marks a previous owner left after himself. one of the pages seems to be a bit crusty after a tea was spilled on it, while others have outlined sentences and corners of the pages are rolled up. a cruel thing to do to the book, however it used to be his and he had a right to make it his, and he did it. contributing to his work by placing and drying there flowers from the garden, drawing little hearts around the number of the page. hope that the book will like it.
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