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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a 36 year old English major who has read and reread Austen. I prefer the 2005 version—one of my favorites that I just adore. I can see the authenticity complaints, but I don’t “feel” them. I appreciate but do not love the BBC version. I think Jennifer Ehle is too old. And though I understand and find somewhat persuasive claim that Lizzie is SUPPOSED to be judgmental, I don’t think she’s supposed to actually be older than 21. I think Keira Knightley conveys the judgmental nature of youth well. I’m not at all persuaded that the 995 Jane is a beauty according to Edwardian standards, and even if she is I don’t think it makes it a better movie. I prefer MM’s awkward, ardent Darcy. [/quote]

Jane wasn’t a beauty according to Edwardian standards because she would have died a century before that era. But she would have been a beauty by Georgian standards, even Regency. [/quote]

It is my experience that most English majors especially from lower tier schools are quite mediocre. I, a STEM major, am a better reader and writer than most of them!

How embarrassing to have “read and reread” Jane Austen yet not know she lived in the Regency era, and that she pictured Jane Bennett as the subject of this painting:

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/drawings/144074[/quote]

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