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Did Jane Austen really hate Bath? and how did it become the hub for the Jane Austen fan base. In this episode, we explore Austen's complicated connection with the city she lived in and wrote about. From her personal experiences to the role Bath played in her novels Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. We will dive into the facts, debunk common misconceptions, and uncover how Bath became a significant part of Jane Austen's legacy housing the Jane Austen centre and the annual Jane Austen Festival. Watch in video format on YouTube @Izzymeakin Jane Austen at Home: A Biography - Lucy Worsley: https://amzn.to/3BRjFxS Podcast Eps  @whattheausten  Bringing Jane Austen's Bath to life with Ellis Naylor @historian_ellis #63 Jane Austen's Legacy & Rare Book Collecting with Tom Ayling #62 Where can you find me? Insta & Youtube: ‪@whattheausten‬

The final episode of 2024 is here. I'm joined by Caily (as usual) to wrap up the podcast year. We're chatting about all the episodes and the Jane Austen Festival.   To my amazing listeners, thank you so much for your support again this year, It honestly means the world to me.  A huge thank you to The Independent Podcast Awards for shortlisting What the Austen? for Best Bookish Podcast and winners of my catagory was The Island of Brilliant do go ahead and give them a listen!  Thank you to all the book club girlies (Patreon members) who are all incredible and I'm so glad we have built such an amazing community to share our love of Austen and thank you of corse to Hoggy for his love and encouragement, even if that comes as the occasional bark whilst recording.  Below, you'll find a list of all the fantastic episodes and guests from 2024, they are all creating amazing things whether that is content, books and businesses do be sure to check them out. Ep 55: Jane Austen Unpopular Opinions #3  Ep 56: Miss Austen Investigates Ep 57: Turning Jane Austen's Emma into a Graphic Novel  Ep 58: Regency Costuming in Jane Austen Adaptations  Ep 59: Mr. Darcy & Mr. Bingley – A Regency Bromance  Ep 60: Mr. Darcy's First (Failed) Proposal  Ep 61: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Leading Men Ep 62: Jane Austen's Legacy & Rare Book Collecting  Ep 63: Bringing Jane Austen's Bath to Life  Ep 64: My Jane Austen Heritage with Caroline Knight  Ep 65: The Trouble with Mrs. Montgomery Hurst  Ep 66: Sense & Self-Sacrifice – An Elinor Dashwood Analysis  Ep 67: Jane Austen Unpopular Opinions #4  Ep 68: The Castle of Wolfenbach Explained | Northanger Abbey's Horrid Novels Ep 69: Villain Off 2024 – General Tilney vs. Sir Walter Elliot  Patreon Exclusive: Sanditon Sisterhood Diaries & Celebrating a Fandom with Author Vasantha Narayanswami 

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What did you think of Bridgerton Season 3? Julia Golding and Kate Macfarlane review the latest season but also put Lady Whistledown through her paces. They look at the real Lady Whistledown and the place for public scandalmongering. What was the role of gossip in Jane's world and where is it a major plot device in her novels? Stay tuned for Jane Austen news. janeausten.co.uk Then type 'Jane Austen Festival 2024'. The page has links to all events and a festival programme. https://austenvariations.com/gossip-and-scandal-in-jane-austens-world/

Just like The Decemberists say, ARISE FROM THE BUNKERS! We are back and excited to relaunch The Co-Operatives Podcast! In this episode we'll go over what's been goin' on with us since 2020, what we've been playing, and what you can expect from the relaunch. PLUS: We're making a game. (It's good to be back, we hope you enjoy!)TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - "How do we do this again?"0:51 - Intro for today's episode!2:45 - We're back!5:10 - Aaron plays Twenty Questions with Liz4:47 - "What's new?"5:40 - "What are we playing?"8:19 - "We got a dog."8:40 - "Have our values and opinions about cooperatives games changed?"14:13 - "What's the best book you read since June 2020?"14:23 - "What is your favorite MCU thing since June 2020?"15:42 - "Jane Austen Festival."16:00 - Retreating back to the best book question.17:48 - "Who is Batman's OTP?"18:31 - "Do you feel sad about Animal Crossing and will you ever play it again?"21:05 - "Are we ever gonna finish our Pandemic Legacy S2 game?"21:55 - Sonic OR Tails?23:10 - Ben Schwartz23:17 - Aloy from Horizon: Forbidden West24:05 - Chewie24:13 - Lords Of Waterdeep25:13 - Everything Everywhere All At Once25:58 - Jason Voorhees26:03 - Mariah Carey26:14 - Carley Rae Jepson26:30 - Chris Evans26:37 - Chris Pine27:23 - Chris Pratt27:58 - Steven Montecristo/Joe Mangianello27:36 - "Do you have any questions for me?"29:35 - "What are you most looking forward to with restarting Co-Ops?"32:13 - What's next? What episodes are coming up?34:12 - Sly tease that we're making a board game...34:29 - Join the Hoodie Weather Discord! --> https://bit.ly/HoodieWeatherDiscord36:15 - PlugsAaron's Twitter is @TurboHoodieLiz's Twitter is @PaperbackLizardReferencesWe're Back: A Dinosaur StoryEvermergeMarvel Strike ForceHorizon: Forbidden WestTan France & Queer EyeAbout The Co-Operatives Podcast--- Subscribe to The Co-Operatives by heading to ListenToTheCoOps.com! (or use our RSS feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/9xRUL1ta)--- Reach out to The Co-Operatives by tweeting to the Hoodie Weather account @about60degrees on Twitter or e-mailing us at CoOperativesPod@gmail.com. Got a game you'd like us to try? LET US KNOW! --- If you feel like being super nice, leave us a review on iTunes! It would mean the world to us! Every review lets others know you enjoyed the episode and helps the show grow! --- Want more Co-Operatives? Then check out our archives for a bunch of episodes that cover cooperative board and video games, dating, and plenty of other nonsense.--- Want to pick a game for The Co-Operatives to cover in the upcoming season? Head to https://bit.ly/CoOpsListenersChoice to vote between Gotham Knights, Goat Simulator 3, and Haven!About Hoodie Weather--- Hoodie Weather is the little company Aaron founded to make games and fun stuff like The Co-Operatives. You can see all of Hoodie Weather's projects at www.hoodieweather.fun--- Join other Co-Ops fans and talk about games by joining the Hoodie Weather Discord by clicking this link -->  https://bit.ly/HoodieWeatherDiscord 

For Video Edition, Pleae Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/6NIRQHvLWrc Karen Eterovich has toured her play, Love Arm'd, Aphra Behn & Her Pen nationally and internationally including the Bedlam Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cheer from Chawton, her play about Jane Austen had workshops in Stockton, CA, and Pleasantville, NY, culminating in a performance in New York City at the renowned Players Club and at the Mission Theatre in Bath, England for the Jane Austen Festival in 2006. THERESE LEE is a versatile performer who has sung in every genre from opera and art song (in five languages) to musical theater and the American Songbook, she has a BA in music from UCLA and has performed her own cabaret act in Los Angeles at the Cinegrill, the Gardenia and Feinstein's at Vitello's. Quinn Lemley is the star of Burlesque to Broadway and Rita Hayworth -The Heat Is On! Appeared on Good Morning America, Oprah and finalist on Shark Tank. Bwy adventures: Barking Sharks; Sirens Of The Silver Screen; Born To Rhumba! Wanda and The King of Hair, Hollywood Goddess & Universal Language. Films The Greatest Ears in Town – The Arif Mardin Story, Lucky Stiff, Picasso Would Have Made A Glorious Waiter. She's co-directed/produced, Rebel Rebel The Many Lives of David Bowie, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Wall and Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel. She coaches and directs speakers and performers privately. Q's sizzling 6 CD's are available on iTunes. Secrets of The Stage with Quinn Lemley about lifestyle & entertainment. Airs the First Sunday of every-month on www.MNN.org Channel 4 at 7:30 PM EST or subscribe at www.QuinnLemley.com

It's a modern day epidemic on social media. Suggested by an audience member at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, Julia Golding takes a look at oversharing in the era of Jane Austen, from letters, to memoirs, to roman à clef, to cartoons, her time was not without its places to spill the beans. Who is  the worst oversharer in Emma (there are lots of them!) and what is wrong with being too reticent? Have a listen and then add your thoughts.Also mentioned in this episode is Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and events at the Jane Austen House https://janeaustens.house

Once a year, a city in Somerset, England, provides the backdrop for a return to the early 19th-century. Hundreds of devotees of regency-period fashion descend on Bath to celebrate the Jane Austen Festival.

Julia Golding and Zoe Wheddon take the podcast to that most Jane Austen of cities: Bath! On the occasion of the Jane Austen Festival, they visit the main sights from Pump Room to Royal Crescent, reflecting on what Jane would make of the city as it is today and what it would have been like when she lived there.To see Julia and Zoe on location, you can watch the podcast here: https://youtu.be/QIy_FcTCp68

Neste episódio, falamos sobre a vida da autora de "Orgulho e Preconceito", como os principais temas da sociedade britânica do século XVIII atravessaram seu trabalho e seus traços vistos em grandes nomes da Literatura Brasileira. Nossas entrevistadas são Jackie Herring, diretora do Jane Austen Festival, no Reino Unido, e Adriana Sales Zardini, da Jane Austen Society do Brasil. Este é o segundo episódio da série #LiteratureIsGREAT. Estamos conversando sobre sete dos nomes indispensáveis da Literatura Britânica. O GREATCast é produzido pela equipe de Comunicação e Diplomacia Pública da Embaixada Britânica no Brasil, com produção da Maremoto Podcasts e apoio do British Council. Saiba mais sobre o nosso trabalho nas redes sociais, em @UKinBrazil

This week Zoe Wheddon and Julia Golding discuss what would Jane do about modern friendship, look back at Jane's  friendships in real life and in her fiction, as well as swap Jane Austen news and award this episode's Lizzy and Lady Catherine. Would Jane fit in with Taylor Swift's pack or a Facebook fan group? What role does messaging (or old fashioned letter writing) play in creating strong female networks of friends? And is it friendship rather than romance that is the key to understanding what is really going on in Jane's novels? Have a listen to find out.This episode mentions Zoe's new book, JaneAusten's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd  You can get 20% off and Free UK delivery if ordered from the Pen and Sword website at the moment (March 2021) using the code JABF. Also available from Amazon, Waterstones, WH Smith and www.bookshop.orgWe also mention the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. You can find out about the festival in September here.

In this episode, we speak with Jackie Herring, the director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. Every year, thousands of Jane Austen lovers from around the world come together to learn, dance, promenade, and build community. In addition to talking about the festival, Jackie tells us about Jane Austen's life, from infancy until death, and all of the fascinating twist and turns her life took in between! P.S. We encountered some technical difficulties during this episode, so please forgive the moments where you can't hear Jackie clearly. We trust you can use context clues to fill in the blanks!

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” These words, from Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are, perhap, some of the reasons why many readers swoon over his character and develop a love for Austen and her works. Other readers, though, like our guest this week, Amanda Beverly, see their families or people they know in the quirky individuals who make up Austen's communities. Whatever your reason for liking Austen's world, there is a way you can immerse yourself in it, which is through The Jane Austen Festival, an annual event that, due to COVID, is virtual this year. Running from July10-12, the festival includes a variety of workshops, author talks, and Q&A that helps attendees get a taste of what the Regency Period and Austen are like. In our episode this week, Amanda talks about how she became involved with the Jane Austen Society of North America--Greater Louisville Region and what their meetings are like, how it seems the things she can learn about Jane Austen's books and her time period are endless, and why newbies shouldn't feel intimidated, and why the Louisville chapter of the society is known as the Fashion region. Book Discussed in This Episode Jane Austen books 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Sense and Sensibility 3- Emma 4- Persuasion 5- Northanger Abbey Other books discussed 1- Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder 2- The Redwall series by Brian Jacques 3- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 5- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 6- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters 7- Among the Janeites : A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe 8- Unmarriageable by Sonia Kamal 9- This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Dawson 10- Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson 11- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 12- Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan 13- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel Movies mentioned: 1- Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth - 1995 miniseries 2- Bride and Prejudice (Bollywood) - 2004 3- Clueless - 1995 Podcasts mentioned: 1- Bonnets at Dawn   You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our blog site at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com Perks airs on Forward Radio 106.5 FM and forwardradio.org every Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursdays at 6 am and 12 pm. We have purchased the rights to the theme music used.        

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” These words, from Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice are, perhap, some of the reasons why many readers swoon over his character and develop a love for Austen and her works. Other readers, though, like our guest this week, Amanda Beverly, see their families or people they know in the quirky individuals who make up Austen’s communities. Whatever your reason for liking Austen’s world, there is a way you can immerse yourself in it, which is through The Jane Austen Festival, an annual event that, due to COVID, is virtual this year. Running from July10-12, the festival includes a variety of workshops, author talks, and Q&A that helps attendees get a taste of what the Regency Period and Austen are like. In our episode this week, Amanda talks about how she became involved with the Jane Austen Society of North America--Greater Louisville Region and what their meetings are like, how it seems the things she can learn about Jane Austen’s books and her time period are endless, and why newbies shouldn’t feel intimidated, and why the Louisville chapter of the society is known as the Fashion region. Book Discussed in This Episode Jane Austen books 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Sense and Sensibility 3- Emma 4- Persuasion 5- Northanger Abbey Other books discussed 1- Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder 2- The Redwall series by Brian Jacques 3- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 5- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 6- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters 7- Among the Janeites : A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe 8- Unmarriageable by Sonia Kamal 9- This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Dawson 10- Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson 11- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 12- Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan 13- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel Movies mentioned: 1- Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth - 1995 miniseries 2- Bride and Prejudice (Bollywood) - 2004 3- Clueless - 1995 Podcasts mentioned: 1- Bonnets at Dawn You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our blog site at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com Perks airs on Forward Radio 106.5 FM and forwardradio.org every Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursdays at 6 am and 12 pm. We have purchased the rights to the theme music used.

We’re taking you on the road to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. This time around, you’ll hear clips from the B@D Friday night event, the ball, and Dr. Glynis Ridley’s excellent talk on Northanger Abbey. For more information on the Jane Austen Festival, go to http://jasnalouisville.com/

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It’s the season 2 Team Austen finale! And we’re taking you to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Listen along as we talk bonnets, interview naval officers, and force our friends to play Marrying Mr. Darcy during this celebration of all things Jane. Special thanks goes out to Mary Landrum, Shawntaye Hopkins, Amanda Beverly, Mary Kravenas, and Jennifer Swenson for getting us down there. If you would like to join us at the festival next year, then keep an eye on this space: http://jasnalouisville.com/2018-jane-austen-festival

We interrupt the epic battle between Darcy and Heathcliff to bring you this very special episode about the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky! Janeite and knitting expert, Mary Kravenas sits in for Hannah to tell us about her festival experience. And Lauren interviews Bonny Wise, the founder of JASNA Louisville and festival director. Get ready for some serious bonnet talk! Check out the JASNA Louisville site - http://jasnalouisville.com/ Follow Mary on Twitter and the 'gram - @PurdyMaryk

This week on StoryWeb: Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. For my mother, Bonnie Burrows, in honor of her birthday “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” There are few opening lines to novels as famous as this one. The novel in question is, of course, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Published in 1813, the novel spins out from this opening line. Indeed, Pride and Prejudice is a classic – maybe the classic – example of a “marriage plot” novel. This type of novel drives forward to marriage, a wedding (or two!) by novel’s end. It will seem in a marriage plot novel (or marriage plot film) that the star-crossed lovers will never find, meet, and/or reconcile with each other – but inevitably they do, and by definition, they marry. (For a thoughtful take on the marriage plot, see Adelle Waldman’s New Yorker article, “Why the Marriage Plot Need Never Get Old.”) While Austen didn’t invent the marriage plot, she is perhaps the greatest creator of novels in this genre. The fun of Jane Austen is in seeing the challenges she subjects her characters to, what twists and turns they’ll confront as they make their way to the altar. In this case, will Elizabeth marry Collins, or will she fall for that haughty, opinionated Darcy? And if you cast your vote for Darcy, how on earth will Austen ever get these two headstrong characters together at the same time? Though Austen’s novels were first published anonymously and though they did not bring her fame in her lifetime, she is practically a cottage industry now. More than a cottage industry – more like an industry giant. She is an institution, and a money-making one at that. One of the most beloved novels in the English language, Pride and Prejudice has sold over 20 million copies, and Austen’s five other major novels are still read and enjoyed by many as well. There have been too many film and television adaptations to count (though Colin Firth’s portrayal of Darcy is so good that we may as well stop, don’t you think?). There have been inventive rewrites, such as Helen Fielding’s 1996 novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary (my favorite of the modern takes on Pride and Prejudice), and even the 2009 parody, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What are your favorite scenes from Pride and Prejudice? What moments stand out to you? Of course, the scene where Elizabeth reads Darcy’s letter is at the heart of the novel, as Elizabeth realizes she must confront both her pride and her prejudice. At the end of this podcast, I’ll read one of my other favorite moments, this one near the novel’s opening as Elizabeth races across fields that are wet and dirty after a downpour, determined to tend to her ailing sister. It is the perfect introduction to this delightfully spirited heroine. She’s been with us for over two hundred years, but she still leaps off the page and seems every bit as bold, new, and fresh as she must have seemed when Austen created her. Ready to meet or reacquaint yourself with Elizabeth Bennet? You can read the novel for free online – but of course, this is one book you’ll just want to curl up with in hard copy with a cup of tea at your side. If you need help keeping track of the novel’s many characters and their intricate relationships with each other, you might consult a diagram of their relationships or a family tree. If you want to delve a little deeper into all things Austen, visit Jane Austen’s House Museum, which bills itself as the “heart of Hampshire,” or the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. And if you’re really a devoted fan, you might want to travel to Bath for the annual ten-day Jane Austen Festival held each September. The festival features Regency reenactors, “theatre, music, food, a ball, workshops, readings, dances and the famous Regency Promenade.” You’ll also find Austen resources at the Jane Austen Society of North America and the Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom. For links to all these resources, visit thestoryweb.com/austen. Listen now as I read Chapter Seven from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.     Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds. She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade. The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt. At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood; it was to remain the whole winter, and Meryton was the headquarters. Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence. Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers' names and connections. Their lodgings were not long a secret, and at length they began to know the officers themselves. Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before. They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign. After listening one morning to their effusions on this subject, Mr. Bennet coolly observed: "From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced." Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London. "I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however." "If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it." "Yes—but as it happens, they are all of them very clever." "This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree. I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish." "My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother. When they get to our age, I dare say they will not think about officers any more than we do. I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well—and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals." "Mamma," cried Lydia, "my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library." Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer. Mrs. Bennet's eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she was eagerly calling out, while her daughter read, "Well, Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does he say? Well, Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love." "It is from Miss Bingley," said Jane, and then read it aloud. "MY DEAR FRIEND,— "If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel. Come as soon as you can on receipt of this. My brother and the gentlemen are to dine with the officers.—Yours ever, "CAROLINE BINGLEY" "With the officers!" cried Lydia. "I wonder my aunt did not tell us of that." "Dining out," said Mrs. Bennet, "that is very unlucky." "Can I have the carriage?" said Jane. "No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night." "That would be a good scheme," said Elizabeth, "if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home." "Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton, and the Hursts have no horses to theirs." "I had much rather go in the coach." "But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure. They are wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are they not?" "They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them." "But if you have got them to-day," said Elizabeth, "my mother's purpose will be answered." She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged. Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted. The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back. "This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!" said Mrs. Bennet more than once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own. Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance. Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: "MY DEAREST LIZZY,— "I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday. My kind friends will not hear of my returning till I am better. They insist also on my seeing Mr. Jones—therefore do not be alarmed if you should hear of his having been to me—and, excepting a sore throat and headache, there is not much the matter with me.—Yours, etc." "Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders." "Oh! I am not afraid of her dying. People do not die of little trifling colds. She will be taken good care of. As long as she stays there, it is all very well. I would go and see her if I could have the carriage." Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, though the carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative. She declared her resolution. "How can you be so silly," cried her mother, "as to think of such a thing, in all this dirt! You will not be fit to be seen when you get there." "I shall be very fit to see Jane—which is all I want." "Is this a hint to me, Lizzy," said her father, "to send for the horses?" "No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner." "I admire the activity of your benevolence," observed Mary, "but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required." "We will go as far as Meryton with you," said Catherine and Lydia. Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together. "If we make haste," said Lydia, as they walked along, "perhaps we may see something of Captain Carter before he goes." In Meryton they parted; the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one of the officers' wives, and Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise. She was shown into the breakfast-parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise. That she should have walked three miles so early in the day, in such dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and Elizabeth was convinced that they held her in contempt for it. She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their brother's manners there was something better than politeness; there was good humour and kindness. Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion's justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was thinking only of his breakfast. Her inquiries after her sister were not very favourably answered. Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room. Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience from expressing in her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance. She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little besides expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with. Elizabeth silently attended her. When breakfast was over they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane. The apothecary came, and having examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it; advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts. The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely. Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment; nor were the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had, in fact, nothing to do elsewhere. When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go, and very unwillingly said so. Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her, that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise to an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present. Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was dispatched to Longbourn to acquaint the family with her stay and bring back a supply of clothes.