pemberley is the fictional country
estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy the
male protagonist in jane austen's novel
Pride and Prejudice it is located near
the fictional town of Lambton and
believed by some to be based on
chatsworth house near bakewell in
Derbyshire in describing the estate
Austin uses uncharacteristically
explicit symbolism to represent the
geographical home of the man at the
center of the novel on first visiting
the estate Elizabeth Bennet is charmed
by the beauty of the surrounding
countryside as indeed she is by mr.
Darcy himself Elizabeth had already
rejected mr. Darcy's first proposal by
the time she visits Pemberley euro it is
his letter the praise of his housekeeper
and his own courteous behavior at
Pemberley that bring about a change in
her opinion of mr. Darcy in Pride and
Prejudice they gradually ascended for
half a mile and then found themselves at
the top of a considerable eminence where
the wood ceased and the I was instantly
caught by Pemberley house situated on
the opposite side of a valley into which
the road with some abruptness wound it
was a large handsome stone building
standing well and rising ground and
backed by a ridge of high woody hills a
gyro and in front a stream of some
natural importance was swelled into
greater but without any artificial
appearance its banks were neither formal
nor falsely adorned Elizabeth was
delighted she had never seen a place
where nature had done more or where
natural beauty had been so little
counteracted by an awkward the taste
they were all of them warm in her
admiration and at that moment she felt
that to be mistress of Pemberley might
be something jane austen equals sequel
equals a sequel to Pride and Prejudice
entitled Pemberley was written by Emma
tenant and published in 1993 in other
media Renison england UK was the setting
for Pemberley in the nineteen eighty BBC
adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
starring elizabeth Garvey and David
rinto well adapted from the novel by Fay
Weldon lime park near stockport was the
setting
for Pemberley for the 1995 television
series of Pride and Prejudice starring
Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth Chatsworth
House the original inspiration for
Pemberley was used for the exterior
scenes for Joe Wright's 2005 film
version of Pride and Prejudice starring
keira knightley and Matthew Macfadyen
however Wilton House was used for many
of the interior scenes such as those
featuring Georgiana Darcy Jane Austen
mentions Chatsworth in the novel as one
of the Great Houses Elizabeth and her
aunt and uncle visited before Pemberley
during their visit north the Duchess of
Devonshire believes that the author was
thinking of Chatsworth House when
describing Pemberley due to the great
number of similarities between
Chatsworth and Pemberley Chatsworth was
again used for exterior and some
interior scenes for the BBC adaptation
of Death Comes to Pemberley harewood
house near Leeds in West Yorkshire was
the setting for Pemberley in the ITV
fantasy series lost in austen this
series was not a direct adaptation of
the novel but the novel provided the
majority of the plots characters and
inspiration some interior scenes in the
BBC adaptation of Death Comes to
Pemberley were filmed at harewood
Pemberley presses the name of the
publishing house that Bridget Jones work
sat in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's
Diary in homage to Pride and Prejudice
in the Lizzie Bennet diaries a blog
style modern adaptation of Pride and
Prejudice Pemberley digital is the name
of Darcy's company Darcy says Pemberley
is the name of the place that his
father's family comes from in England
references the selected essays of Donald
Green the original of Pemberley Bucknell
University Press 2004 see also Donald
Green Pemberley revisited one on jasna
Austin Jane Pride and Prejudice
united kingdom edgerton a tool death
comes to pemberley behind the scenes the
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