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Re: Small puzzles... - 6 years ago
Hello K.L.M. My observation wasn't based on Darcy's inner thoughts, but this from canon: "But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face,...etc Jim.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Merry Christmas - 6 years ago
I'll return the wishes Dorothee. All the very best to you and yours.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Number of meetings between the Bennets and Darcy - 6 years ago
In which case I beg your pardon for assuming you were north American Agnes. No offence meant I assure you.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Number of meetings between the Bennets and Darcy - 6 years ago
? Why on earth should you think I am offended because our opinions differ, Agnes? Indeed I am not and would be siilly to be so; this is a forum and all views should receive consideration if not necessary agreement. Thus it is with me.. It wasn't so much Darcy passing an opinion on a young woman he hardly knew, it was the fact he was calling down her appearance. "She hardly had a good feature"..etby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Mr. Phillip's vulgarity - 6 years ago
Kathy, I didn't answer you before. Appologies for that. Re your points, it wasn't Darcy who stated Mrs Phillips as Vulgar though, but the narrator herself ,ie Jane Austen. That was my original point and what I didn't quite understand.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Number of meetings between the Bennets and Darcy - 6 years ago
I think we may be wandering away from the original points a little Agnes. My first post points weren't arguing with anything ( indeed they weren't arguing at all, just wondering ) Darcy made his comments "when they next met" , ie, after the assembly (stated in text) which was effectively before he even knew her at all, he looked at her only to criticise and had made comments to that effect to hiby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Mrs. Philips - 6 years ago
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that Agnes. A case of personal interpretation I think. (-:by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Small puzzles... - 6 years ago
Ah, I think you are mis-reading me here Agnes. He made the remarks amongst his company (canon), not in Lizzie's hearing. His offence was one of criticising Lizzie to his company and yes, at Lucas Lodge. "Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he maby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Small puzzles... - 7 years ago
Thanks for commenting on my queries Michelle Anne. Ref your comments: I'm not sure "yell" aptly describes Mr's Phillips calling down an invitation to Wickham even loudly as vulgarity. In Emma, Miss Bates, the mildest of creatures, called down to Emma Woodhouse from her window. I'm sure that wasn't vulgar in any way. I often call out to friends I see out whilst walking. Beyond that, I settle forby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Small puzzles... - 7 years ago
Hi Agnes and thanks for the reply. I accept what you're saying, but Darcy didn't make remarks amongst male friends in the quoted instance, but the very next time he saw Lizzie amongst his company. Why would a gentleman do that, especially since he several times refused to join in Caroline's condemning Lizzie? I'm aware that it comes out later that he said he would sooner call her mother a wit rathby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Small puzzles... - 7 years ago
Nothing to raise excitement levels, but just a couple of small items in Pride and Prejudice that seemed against the grain and have always puzzled me: " Mr's Phillips's vulgarity".. a tax on Darcy's forebearance. I found this surprising as during the story Mr's Phillips was never quoted as being vulgar in any particular way. Why was she suddenly quoted so in the last chapter? Darcy is quoted asby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Ages of the Bingleys - 7 years ago
The marrying age of young women seems to have swung wildly in the Regency era. By Jane Austen's definitions, Lydia is talked of as being approached at fifteen and marries Wickham at sixteen. Marriane Dashwood is but seveteen and Elinor nineteen in Sense and Sensibility. Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey the same and I seem to think (without checking) that Fanny Price is also about seventeen.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Chief of Police Jim Doherty - 7 years ago
Add my belated congrats in there Jim. Great honour and no doubt well deserved. Jim.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Anniversary Bonus. - 7 years ago
Ha, a big book it is Harvey; two and a half inches thick and weighs four pounds (1.8 kilos) so I won 't be dropping it. Not the sort of book you take on a train either. Cheers. Jim.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Anniversary Bonus. - 7 years ago
Just had our 36th wedding anniversary and my wife bought me the Chartwell Books Complete Novels of Jane Austen in one 2120 page omnibus edition in hardback. I have read all J.A's works many times and have a nice hardbacked copy of Pride and Prejudice, but this was a really welcome gift. Quite made my day. (-:by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Hi. A question re Jaff Index, - 7 years ago
Thank you cpauline. I have no objections to sharing and I'll notify them. Thanks for the prompt reply. Jim.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Hi. A question re Jaff Index, - 7 years ago
I've recently been e-mailed by someone from Jaff Index requesting blanked permission to list all my stories. If this is genuine then I have no objection in complying. My stories are unique to Dwiggie as I've never tried to pubnlish them. Can you please confirm this is okay with the site, in which case they can have permission. Best regards and thanks in advance. Jim.by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Painting Jane's world. - 8 years ago
Might I share this portait /sketch I just finished with you? There are no really definitive portraits of Jane Austen around, so this is my idea of a young Jane at work by candlelight. It is totally original, quite simple and a sort of personal tribute, if you will. Hope you like...(-:by Jim G.M - Tea Room
Thanks all. Re: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapters 2-3 and End. - 8 years ago
For the positive comments. Always appreciated.by Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Turning Point Potential - 8 years ago
Bingley's firm friendship with Darcy tends to protect Caroline from getting her comeuppance. I'm not a vindictive person, but I'd love to see her make a complete fool of herself. Alas, that isn't ever likely because of Bingley. How wonderful if she put a rumour out to Lady C that Lizzie had been heard being rumoured to be associating with a common soldier...and it turned out to be Colonel Fitzwillby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Turning Point Potential - 8 years ago
Hi Peter. Personally, I like the point before Lidia and Wickham elope. An interesting situation is developing up Lambton way. Just personally speaking, I always got a feeling that Wickham had left the story and that Lydia was a minor character. It was a clever ploy to use them to bring Darcy and Lizzie together, but at that point there are other possibilities that could be worked on without affby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapters 2-3 and End. - 8 years ago
Thanks all for the comments, and Peter, I think there are now about twenty Hunsford Tales on file in the Epilogue Abbey.by Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapters 2-3 and End. - 8 years ago
Hi Joan. In these tales I have never tried to make Charlotte anything less than practical and sensible, Jane Austen made both characters as they were and Mr Collins was not a sensible man. Neither was Charlotte a model for women, but more a product of an era where women's options, particularly the plain, were somewhat limited by their husband's status and she made concessions for security sake inby Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapters 2-3 and End. - 8 years ago
Chapter Two. The morning following Mr Collins’s acquisition of the tools of his new artistic venture dawned sunny and reasonably warm for early spring in the Westerham district of Kent. Charlotte’s half-prayed for hope that her husband’s latest project might be shelved, even possibly forgotten completely, was dismissed with some aplomb when the good reverend appeared at breakfast in the smock, aby Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapter One. - 8 years ago
Not a bad comparison really, Joanna. I see Collin s (in these stories) as foolish, but not a fool and Charlotte as long-suffring but protective of him in her own way. . I have fun with him and the tales are all confined to Hunsford and never encroach on P&P Canon. Humour is the main theme, as a sensible man Mr Collins is not. (-:by Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapter One. - 8 years ago
The downside of Mr Collins the poet would be that he would expect people to listen to it.....(-:by Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. Chapter One. - 8 years ago
“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” Eugene Delacroix. An idea is inspirational. An idea that involves Lady Catherine De Bourgh in the mind of Mr Collins is earth-shattering. Chapter One. “Charlotte, Charlotte my love; make haste and hear my tremendous news Comeby Jim G.M - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Painting Jane's world. - 8 years ago
Watercolour painting is a hobby of mine. I've painted, copied from photographs etc, almost every scene from Pride and Prejudice and a few from other works, Not to bore anyone but I would like to share one line and wash sketch with you I just finished. It's a view of the old harbour at Lyme Regis showing the assembly rooms ( the tall building on the left) where Jane Austen danced, before they wereby Jim G.M - Tea Room
Re: " You cannot have been always at longbourn!" - 8 years ago
Oh indeed, nothing can be ignored if stated, but the story is Elizabeth's and, when completed, easily seen. We only get to know anything much of Darcy's thoughts except from brief narration. None of it is a great mystery really and it's only our desire to complicate the most simple things that make us create problems where none really exist. That's the fun of it all. (-:by Jim G.M - Tea Room