Pride and Prejudice/The Onion headlines
Though Pride and Prejudice was initially published in 1813, this edition—from 1894, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson—is perhaps the most iconic. Remembered for its breathtaking gold-stamped peacock cover, it is this edition’s cover that Austen fans frequently see reproduced on handbags and phone cases.
The cover isn’t the only noteworthy addition to the work, however. Thomson also filled the pages with beautiful illustrations, ranging from classic chapter caps and full-page engravings to subtle nods like inhabited initials.
✇ cee’s favourite movies: pride & prejudice (2005)
‘I wouldn’t dance with him for all of Derbyshire, let alone the miserable half!’
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Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth + Mr.Darcy
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.
(requested by elzabetholsens)
“As Knightley studies a ceiling painted with cavorting nudes and admires the curves of some extremely buff statuary, the Darcy home is increasingly eroticized. Her expression is one of awe tinged with wistfulness and, increasingly, desire; by the time she recognizes a handsome bust of Mr. Darcy, it is clear her feelings toward the man have begun to soften. The moment that interests me, however, comes shortly before this, when Elizabeth has just entered the gallery. For the figure that first seizes and holds her attention is not the lounging youth wearing only a helmet but a standing woman, fully clothed and, what is more, completely veiled. Her face is, indeed, quite closely and confiningly swathed—I am tempted to say, suffocatingly so.”
- Susan Fraiman (The Liberation of Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice)
“My first thought was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the ages that Austen wrote them. The emotions only seemed real to me when they were experienced by very young people. And that was really the first decision I made. I wanted to make something that is about young people experiencing these emotions for the first time and not understanding the feelings they are having.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
little (100% canon) things i love about the end of pride & prejudice that don’t usually make adaptations:
- Lizzy offers to burn The Letter because Darcy’s embarrassed about how bitter he probably sounded when he wrote it
- Darcy tells Lizzy that he told Bingley he was wrong about how Jane felt. Lizzy (parphr): “Did you decide that for yourself or were you just going off what I told you at Hunsford?” Darcy, the stubbornest nerd: “No, I figured it out for myself” Lizzy, sarcastically: “okay, Darcy”
- When Lizzy tells Jane she’s in love with Darcy, Jane asks her if she’s joking six times
- Next day: Darcy and Bingley show up at the house. Mrs Bennet’s upset that Bingley always brings Darcy. To get rid of him, she tells Kitty and Lizzy to take him on a walk. Bingley: “Kitty looks sick. Maybe Lizzy and Darcy should go…….. by themselves” Mrs Bennet: “I’m sorry Lizzy you must find a way to survive this” Lizzy, sarcastically: “Oh nooooooo”
- Direct quote, Mr. Bennet on Darcy saving Lydia: “It will save me a world of trouble and economy. Had it been your uncle’s doing, I must and would have paid him; but these violent young lovers carry every thing their own way. I shall offer to pay [Darcy] to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.”
- Lizzy writes a friendly, clever letter to her aunt and uncle that’s included in the text, the next line is “Darcy’s letter to Lady Catherine was in a different style”. The text of Darcy’s letter is omitted
- Jane and Bingley move in next door to Lizzy and Darcy