#Longbourne

[drumlincountry]

😭😭😭 SOMEONE GET THIS NARRATOR SOME MARXIST LITERATURE STAT!!!!

(Longbourn by Jo Baker still has me frothing at the mouth)

#jo baker #pride and prejudice #Longbourn #Me fein #Books

[ofliterarynature]

My physical tbr is horrendously out of control, but I can at least mark this stack off as read! Not too bad for 3 months work.

(not pictured: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black)

#I’m keeping 6 of them for now #which is not helpful in cleaning out my bookshelves but 🤗 #top picks are Spill Zone and Brides of Rollrock island #bec posts #from Instagram #books #book stack #bookstagram #spill zone #scott westerfeld #longbourn #the brides of rollrock island #the demons lexicon #the inheritance of orquidea divina #Sarah Andersen #howl's moving castle #diana wynne jones #robin mckinley

[alloutofgoddesses]

Love Minerva turning over a new leaf and just going full Mrs. Bennet

#neverafter #she’s gotta get these girls married before their father dies and they’re kicked out of longbourne I guess #d20 neverafter

[unsociableandtaciturnbarbie]

I have a confession to make (or maybe it’s not a confession because I’m not super subtle about it), I read Jane Austen and her associated works for romance; sue me! This semester I feel as if I’ve been very focused on class dynamics, stylistic choices, and historical accuracy, but somewhere in there I lost the reason why I even picked up Jane Austen in the first place: the love stories. Sitting in class today while listening to myself analyze why it’s socially acceptable for a servant to kiss someone instead of talking about why I think it’s really exciting that they were kissing, I came to this realization that I had completely lost some of the simple joy in Austen while analyzing it. Reading Longbourn has been really fun for me, and while the cool and smart reason would be because of the interesting ways in which different worlds (the world of the rich and the world of the servants) are created and traversed by different characters, the real reason is because I NEED to know if James and Sarah are going to end up together. Reading Longbourn has reminded me that, yes, romance can exist in the bounds of Jane Austen, and it’s okay if I spend most of the book living for the slowburn of James and Sarah because they’re really cute together and I’m always a sucker for a grumpy-sunshine trope.

As such, I decided to create a meme really going back to my roots. It’s based on the sad hamster memes where first someone states something and then the sad hamster is supposed to be your disappointed reaction to it. I decided to create this meme where someone, perhaps a real historical accuracy Jane-ite, is saying that romance can’t exist within the bounds of Jane Austen, and then I’m reacting to it in front of Pemberley because it’s THE place for me in Austen, holding Longbourn because it’s the book that fills my romance-loving soul and reminded me of my Austen roots, Ao3 because it’s the place to really get the mushy gushy romance content for Austen that I want, a tote bag with the hand flex and “you have bewitched me body and soul” quote to represent my favorite movie of all time which gives both the Austen content and mushy romance content (I love the US ending and will die on that hill), and a letter that has the first proposal from Darcy to represent that romance does exist in Austen and it’s legal to like those parts of the book best. Don’t get me wrong, I do love a good analysis, but I think sometimes it’s okay to enjoy a piece of fiction and not tear the romance to shreds for the sake of historical accuracy or making a point about Austen’s motivations which I have definitely been guilty of. 

On that note, I have a confession to make about a discussion we had in class like a month ago and brought up again in class today as a fact that we agreed on, but I actually have disagreed with it this whole time and I need to put it out there. I do not agree that Elizabeth fell in love with Darcy because of his owning Pemberley. I think Elizabeth fell in love with Darcy because of the Darcy he is at Pemberley. When she arrives at Pemberley she makes some comments about how lovely it all is, but she still doesn’t want to see him. She starts to feel a bit more amiable towards him only after the housekeeper tells stories of him, but up until she runs into Darcy, she’s reflecting on how glad she is that he’s not coming back until the following day. It’s easy to attribute her love of him to Pemberley, but it’s more complicated than that. After the visit with Georgiana, we get this quote: “As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not long enough to determine her feelings towards one in that mansion; and she lay awake two whole hours, endeavouring to make them out”. Her thoughts were not “of” Pemberley, they were “at” Pemberley which I think is a really important distinction because the paragraph would still function with “of Pemberley”, but Austen specifically doesn’t write that here. Also, the rest of the passage goes on to list off his qualities that she’s beginning to fall for and not once does she mention his riches, even in a like, “What a good bonus!” way.

I’m going to plug the musical below here again (it’s really good), so if you start at 1:24:04 and watch to 1:28:13 there’s a song called “That’s Not the Man That I Know” that I think really captures this whole idea. The tone of the song starts very combative, like Lizzie is battling with the idea of the Darcy she knows and that of the Darcy she’s hearing about. She softens a bit for a second where we get the “oh he has a nice house” but she goes right back to the combative tone upon seeing him. If it had truly been the house, she would have completely softened to him the moment she recognized that Pemberley is quite nice. However, the tone doesn’t soften to a real affectionate tone until he’s conversed with her aunt and uncle and invited her to dine with Georgina, real evidence that Darcy at Pemberley really isn’t the man she *thinks* she knows and this to me shows that the real Pemberley effect is that of Darcy at Pemberley, NOT the riches which Pemberley represents.

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #fitzwilliam darcy #ao3 fanfic #longbourn #pride and prejudice the musical #elizabeth be #elizabeth bennet #Youtube

[whenthegoldrays]

Why hello

#and it was free because I had credits on thrift books! #elly reads #longbourn #elly's posts

[anghraine]

The one downside of modern Pemberley as a prestigious art gallery (rather than blah megacorp) is that I find it genuinely charming that canon Elizabeth does not give a single fuck about paintings. She finds Darcy's fine art collection borderline incomprehensible, apart from Georgiana's crayon drawings that he has stuck in with the downstairs paintings.

She does care about landscape and maybe to some extent, architecture/interior design, and she's strongly affected by her natural rapport with Darcy's aesthetic tastes. It's obviously representative of the potential for a deeper rapport as people.

And I definitely would want to keep that element of aesthetic -> personal rapport. But the image of Elizabeth ignoring the fine art to study Georgiana's crayon drawings (and the fact that Darcy includes Georgiana's drawings in the fine art collection in the first place) is such a lovable human detail.

#anghraine babbles #gay modern us politics au #fic talk #austen blogging #otp of otps #maybe the art gallery is in some carefully preserved and regulation compliant old building #and elizabeth is in architectural engineering or something #someone in my notes was speculating about how elizabeth wants to keep the idaho family farm and ... nah #as far as i can tell canon elizabeth truly does not care about the entailment #or longbourn or the meryton area generally beyond her personal ties #and even w/ those she's eager to get the hell out of dodge #i'd want that to be true for modern elizabeth as well #she's cheerful and high-spirited but privately feels stifled in her dying town (which she can't afford to leave w/o racking up debt)

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.

"Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen

#book quotes #pride and prejudice #jane austen #letter #excuses #elizabeth bennet #mr bingley #mr darcy #longbourn #visiting #lady catherine de bourgh

[darcysflexedhand]

I used the despicable me meme format to poke fun at Jo Baker’s decision to smear Mr.Wickham’s character further. I’m all for the Wickham slander but the introduction of pedophilia into Longbourn was disconcerting. I understand and appreciate the darkness or “shadows” that Baker creates in the book but having Wickham finger the walls is just too much for me. It does beg the question, though, did Wickham interact much with the servants at Pemberley? As a steward of Pemberley, his father must have helped manage the estate, hiring new servants and farmers. Being in the kitchen would have been uncommon still, as steward was considered the highest class of servant and maids as some of the lowest. Especially under the watchful eye of the late Mr.Darcy, I doubt it would have been acceptable for Mr.Wickham to enter the kitchen and bother the housemaids. I question this part of Wickham’s character in Longbourn. If he was trying to marry up, wouldn’t it be in his best interest to stay away from the lower class and any scandal of association altogether?

The medical concept of pedophilia didn’t appear until 1896, so there was no name to the perversion Wickham possessed. Even when it was defined, any sort of incest was ignored as being pedophilia and it was portrayed to be a thing of strangers, so far removed from polite society. It’s scary to think what sort of atrocities went on in the background of Jane Austen’s society. How such perversions were addressed is unclear but it’s likely that if an individual with sinful desires would come to someone like Mr.Collins to ask for advice, just as Sarah did. It truly put James in an uncomfortable position in protecting Polly because of the class gap between him and Wickham because Wickham had power over James despite his bad behavior. His word would reign supreme over anything James accused him of, and if reported, James would be dragged back to the militia.

#longbourn #pride and prejudice

[seven-dragons]

Y’all LONGBOURN! IS! FOR! SALE!

If everyone chips in $20 I think we got this.

#are the shades of Pemberley to be thus purchased? #YES!!! #Does this mean Mr. Collins is dead? #pride and prejudice #jane austen #longbourn #the floor plans will make you go feral #pride and prejudice 1995

[curiousb]

The Longbourn House Yearbook: Volume IV

Clara throws her disappointed heart into her studies, and tries to get to grips with a problem that her robotics professor has left on the board for his students to tackle.

She’s not sure that the server should be making that noise...

Well, I guess that building robots is sweaty work, but, ermm, that is a public toilet, Clara.

After a hard day at DBIST, Clara gets a warm welcome home from Eleanor. Like Eliza and Lucas, I suspect that she might have ulterior motives.

Yep, I’m definitely sensing some romantic vibes between the two of them.

Romance is also on Frances’s mind, and she invites Green Bean on a date to the Galaxy Bar, the funkiest venue on campus.

OK, I think I know what you two were up to...

Yup!

And we really don’t need to see the photos!

My game seems to like generating NPCs with groovy skin tones - meet Donna Pope!

Frances had a very particular reason for asking Green Bean out today... (the ‘Surprise Proposal’ faces are just too cute)

It’s an emphatic yes!

Time to celebrate!

Back at Longbourn, Eleanor is moving in for her first kiss.

And a romantic twirl in the cafeteria.

Clara gets down on one knee, brandishing a jewellery box!

But it’s her first love Daniel that she’s proposing to!

I’m sorry, Eleanor, you were just too late.

#sims 2 #merybury #clara dashwood #eleanor tilney #eliza bennet #lucas darcy #frances crawford #green bean #daniel bingley #donna pope #longbourn house

[drumlincountry]

i usually read a Jane Austen book every December but I've read all* of them now so now i'm reading Longbourn by Jo Baker and aaaaaaaaaaa a.. a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa AAAAAAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA. AAA !!!!!!

#Sometimes I forget who I am #And then sometimes I read a novel about a maidservant in 18th-19thc England #And I am like HAVE YOU HEARD OF MARX WHAT ABOUT ELEANOR MARX #BUT SHE HASN'T!!!!!!! Because it's 1790!!!!! #IF SOMEONE DOESN'T GET THIS GIRL SOMETHING FOR HER CHILBLAINS I'M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND #LIBERATION!!!! SOME LIBERATION FOR HER CHILBLAINS! #Can I get u some revolutionary pamphlets I bet there were some French ones SOMEWHERE #All petty fights between factions of leftism fade away #consider that anyone with a philosophy that could help a woman living in this situation is a comrade of mine #Me Fein #longbourn #jo baker #pride and prejudice #Oh yeah #* most of all of them. Couldn't get thru Lady Susan or Mansfield Park

[permanentreverie]

What books did you buy?

☺️ ahhhh thank you so much for asking nonnie!!!! i bought the entire ember in the ashes series, the whole raven cycle series, as well as deathless (by catherynne valente) and butterfly yellow (by thanhha lai)!

#i also have recently bought the odyssey and the iliad (both wilson’s translations); divine rivals; the name drop; the four winds; #as long as the lemon trees grow; longbourn; yellowface; portrait of a thief; and this time it’s real! #… so yeah a lot of books aksjaksjaksnsb #answered asks #anon asks

[rarephloxes]

finished Longbourn by Jo Baker and I am COMPLETELY DEVASTATED that there’s no fanfiction for it at all

#I NEED JAMES AND SARAH CONTENT #ITS A LOVELY STUPENDOUS BOOK #I enjoyed it tremendously #so happy I picked it up #longbourn #jo baker

[aquitainequeen]

So it seems an adaptation of Longbourn is in the works.

*settles back in anticipation of a reaction equal to Persuasion 2022*

#longbourn #longbourn novel #jo baker #this novel is...interesting #it's very well written and it does rather kill gut and quarter the sacred cow of P&P #pride and prejudice

[the-anxiety-academy]

Crew of Silvers' Revenge

James Silver, son of John Silver (Captain)

Sara Scroop, daughter of Scroop (Quartermaster)

Isabella Hands, daughter of Israel Hands (first mate)

Max Turnbuckle, son of Turnbuckle (Helmsman)

Jones Meltdown, child of Meltdown (Boatswain)

Dice Dogbreath, son of Dogbreath (Seaman)

Ottis Onus, son of Onus (Seaman)

Lacey Longbourne, daughter of Longbourne (Seaman)

#the silvers revenge #James Silvers(oc) #Sara Scroop(oc) #Isabella Hands(oc) #Max Turnbuckle(oc) #Jones Meltdown(oc) #Dice Dogbreath(oc) #Ottis Onus(oc) #Lacey Longbourne(oc) #OC List in Pinned Post #Descendants #oc #my ocs #treasure planet #john silver #scroop #israel hands #Turnbuckle #meltdown #Dogbreath #onus #Longbourne #disney #descendants oc

[korusalka]

i love how somebody vibed so hard with Marina they chose a period romance of all things as their platform to plug one of her singles

#i appreciated it though <3 i love finding notes and underlined passages and such in books #the book is longbourn btw i encountered it while strolling through verona's public library #& got so hooked by it i had to sit down for 3+ hours until closing time when i had to give it back :(