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Posted by Marie on October 09, 1996 at 18:00:08:
I find it so interesting that so many of us on the BB like or have liked the same things. I, too, loved the below-mentioned version of Scarlett Pimpernel, and watched it numerous times (especially the party scene at Marguerite's place).
: : I also have had obsessions similar to this one. After seeing the Anthony Andrews/Jane Seymour version of "The Scartlet Pimpernel", I had to find all of Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel" books.:
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: Did Anyone else get hooked on Anne of Green gables and all the sequels?
I also loved the Anne books when I got Anne of Green Gables at age ten or so. I had no idea that there were sequels, so read and reread the only one I had, and even persuaded my parents to take me to a very bad musical version on the stage. I was overjoyed to discover the sequels later in highschool, and then to find the videos. Even today, when staying with friends, I have been known to pick up one of the books about Anne's children when I am tucked away for the night in the daughter's bedroom.
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Posted by Marie on October 09, 1996 at 18:07:01:
: : I think I can safely speak for the vast majority here when I say that it is Darcy that we are in love with and not Colin Firth.
: : Cheryl
Yes, Firth as Darcy, not Firth as Firth (who seems to take himself just a tad too seriously, perhaps?).
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Posted by Joan, too on October 09, 1996 at 18:12:53:
: Rebecca
I don't agree with this reviewer, but also find it ... unlikely that Elizabeth is so totally unconcerned about her financial future. Marriage is definitely in her plans, if it will happen, because her alternative is really too awful almost to comtemplate.
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While, of course, Lizzie is not totally unconcerned about her financial future (and it would not be her choice to remain a spinster), I doubt that she would consider spending her life as a spinster living with her married sister, Jane (to whom she is so close) and teaching Jane's children to play their instruments very ill, an alternative too awful to contemplate - especially if compared to a life married to a Mr. Collins!
Joan, too
Posted by Amy on October 09, 1996 at 18:16:49:
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: Yes, Firth as Darcy, not Firth as Firth (who seems to take himself just a tad too seriously, perhaps?).
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Perhaps. But why should he not? The handsome can afford to give offense wherever they go. We need not do anything but admire his Darcy and a few of his other characters.
I am not in crush with Firth but I do think he is a good actor in addition to being so lovely. I thought his performance in A Month in the Country was excellent.
Amy
Posted by Joan, too on October 09, 1996 at 18:24:26:
: Couldn't women in those days become nuns?? They would give their dowry to the church in exchange for their services. That is what I always thought Mary might do, since she always seemed so attached to Mr. collins and at times "preachy". That can be a fulfilling life and a worry off the minds of their parents.
: What is your take??
: -Maureen
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Well, technically they probably could, but most of them would have had to convert to Catholicism to do that. At this time the predominant (state) religion was the (Protestant) Church of England.
Joan, too
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Posted by Anne on October 09, 1996 at 18:49:00:
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: Well, technically they probably could, but most of them would have had to convert to Catholicism to do that. At this time the predominant (state) religion was the (Protestant) Church of England.
: Joan, too
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Church of England has nuns. Went to a school near Oxford
run by the nuns - and believe me it can definitely compare
with stories of Catholic school.
Anne
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Posted by Lilian on October 09, 1996 at 18:50:40:
: my vote is for London. (But what do Georgiana and
: : Fitzwilliam do?)
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: Ann,
: Does the Colonel stay at the Darcy house when in town? Makes sense but I don't remember that part. As I am rereading -- first time since my addiction to the series took hold -- I realize I have pushed a lot of the real details into the darkness.
: Amy
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I seem to be a tad lost here. I have read P&P several times but the wedding night was never mentioned
in the novel. OR am I deviously wrong here???? Someone help me!
I assume that Darcy and Lizzy would spend their wedding night at London with his sister and cousin (because Darcy
cares a lot about his sister and cousin) but I really don't know.
If I remember the novel correctly, the novel didn't really go into the wedding
much at all! (OR was the novel in my country edited???)
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Posted by Amy on October 09, 1996 at 19:36:06:
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: I seem to be a tad lost here. I have read P&P several times but the wedding night was never mentioned
: in the novel. OR am I deviously wrong here?
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Nothing wrong. Settle down. We are speculating.
Part of the trouble with having so much daily traffic here (much as I love it) is that I can only keep 3-4 days worth of messages up at the same time. You kind of have to check in at least that often and read the posts you think you might want to join in on, to keep up.
I am having trouble keeping up on all the threads, which makes me a little sad.
Amy
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