Austen Heroines: Elizabeth Bennet
Jessica. TV addict. Mother of 4 guinea pigs. Lifetime Jane Austen enthusiast and Leslie Knope worshipper.
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People:
Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, Andrew Garfield (1), Emma Stone.
TV:
Parks and Recreation (1), Community, New Girl, The Hour, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Luther, The Office (us) (uk), Buffy, Dollhouse, Firefly, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica.
Movies/Books:
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, North and South, Jane Eyre, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Atonement.
Sexy Yelling: Or, Characters Caring Loudly Whilst Wanting to Rip Off Each Other’s Clothes
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favourite films
How to be Awkward, brought to you by Pride and Prejudice (2005):1. Accidentally let slip to the girl you like you can’t read.
2. Bow to a lady with a dirty hemline.
3. Be Mr. Collins.
4. Gawk at Jane.
5. Wave your glove around like a dag instead of proposing like a man.
6. Nearly get elbowed by Darcy.
7. Be Mr. Collins.
8. Try not to enjoy yourself staring at Pig’s testies.
9. Try to have eye sex with the man you rejected.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
- Jane Austen
“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennet’s] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.”
-Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
A family trait, I think.
Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice:
Pride and Prejudice (1940): Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier | Pride and Prejudice (1995): Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth | Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001): Renee Zellweger & Colin Firth | Bride and Prejudice (2004): Aishwarya Rai & Martin Henderson | Pride and Prejudice (2005): Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen | Lost in Austen (2008): Jemima Rooper & Elliot Cowan
Pride & Prejudice
Modern AU
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
They have grown old with me. And it’s that much more real.
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