Is that individual plastic wrapping of packages I noticed?

Can you do a video on what Jane’s life would be like? Or Lydia’s to Wickham’s? What would the wife of a solider be like?

Lindo the Brooklinen sheets meet ironing? Linen is notorious for that.

I have to say, I just found you as a suggestion from KZfaq, and your video was so entertaining and i loved listening to your sequel. Your voice is so sweet and calming! :D

Absolutely love Brooklinen and have the petal linen sheets myself. Just wait until they've been washed like 10+ times. You will completely understand why they kept the sheets so long. They get so, so soft. 🥰

I was laughing thinking of the same thing! 😁

"I am not one and thirty."

I was thinking that myself!

As a 35-yeared-old who needs some serious deep breaths after rushing up a flight of stairs, i think 'old age's might start way sooner than we expect 😂

@@misscarolinasousa As a 31 year old whose hips, knees, and back already hate her, I AGREE lol

Wouldn't everybody already be at school and work work by that point?

I love how Americans say and write mum as mom. Dunno why. It just makes me so happy. ☺️

Notif the kids are homeschooled or are too young to be at school

Second this!

Love the little moment you created

What's with this permission thing though? Didn't husband and wife sleep together in the olden days?

@@tvisha7572 well the wealthy usually has seperate bedrooms. They didn’t want the awkwardness of a servant walking in on them together the next morning. Which seems so silly to us but the Victorians were a prudish bunch. But it was customary for the husband to ask his wife permission to stay with her for the night. Usually , even if their bedrooms were seperate, they would have a private sitting room in between them to meet for a private meal together.

I think Ole Darcy has the big time hots for Lizzie. They’re going to be honeymooning for a good while.

😂😂😂 That’s what I’m here for. 😂

I would totally read any p&p sequel you would like to write!

@@ginnieliebherr4245 I would reed this sequel only if the linnel sheets of each household is describe.

Death at Pemberley is kind of a sequel. Not an official one obviously lol but does show Elizabeth and Darcy after marriage.

I agree, but their alternative sequel was so depressing. I would want to see the sequel to Kierra Knightly Pride and Prejudice and maybe have a love 💕 match storyline with one of her younger sisters getting married. Or her best friend being redeemed and coming to visit Elizabeth at Pemberly and meeting a rich nobleman in business with Mr. Darcy.

Whereas

My introvert ass would have rather stayed unmarried if that's what marriage brings along.

The unmarried weren’t this busy but they did do things. The visiting and partying would be the same, you could go help the poor the same (with your mother usually), unmarried women were expected to study (like people that age group do today but it would be more about languages and music and painting). People also did go to the walks or riding or playing tennis. The social calls in neighborhoods were same. You were expected to have been red well enough to keep conversation in literature and some current events (but not deep into politics like men) and read Bible and go to sermons. You could have pets, play or educate siblings or other relatives (Persuation has a lot of this). Your could travel if rick or do embroidery and painting if poorer. You could go to threatre or shopping or try help the community. The house had its things to be done even if you weren’t the mistress (which you could be if your mother had died so your would do same things as married woman for a lot of it). I think main difference between married and unmarried is that you had less certainty security, social standing and structure. Money would help and if your father and brothers were supportive but you still would depend lot more on them and could not go places as much alone. And of course you would lack a husband and children.

@@sarasamaletdin4574 Yeah and in England in particular, the unmarried ladies and their mums were preoccupied with the ‘season’ and would spend a lot of time preparing themselves for about six months of networking. They needed to try to be the best and the brightest during this time, so I’d say the unmarried were also quite busy, just in a different way.

They also brought that out about the Crawley sisters at the beginning of Downton Abbey. Too much time on their hands!

The Bennet's estate was nothing like the size of Darcy's, they were lower class rich folk and they didn't really have tenants to look after or offer charity to. Beyond paying attention to the needs of the servants, Mrs. Bennet wouldn't have had many people to take care of.

I'm sure the housekeeper helped her learn what she needed to know. Also, there were books aplenty on how to be a good mistress of (insert what kind of home you had, and what class you were here).

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Lizzie and Jane had done a lot more 'housekeeping' at Longbourne than their mother was aware of, just because Mrs Bennet wasn't doing so much? She did seem to plan the menus with Hill, at least: 'there is not a bit of fish to be got.'

@@mrs_mothra547 They were not lower class. They just were poorer even if still rich.

That's very true; another thing that Mrs. Bennet is never explicitly said to do, which would be expected of women of her class is to get involved with "parish activities". Often, in newspapers of the time, you read about gentlewomen organising bazaars or "sales of goods" where, basically, women made little embroidered things/paintings/drawings/other "craft" items, then held a "sale of work", as they were called, where their friends and other gentry would buy these little trinkets - not because they needed them, but as a way for the women to do something "useful" with their handicrafts, and then to "do their bit" for the poor by spending their pin money on these little things. (Organising events like that probably gave a lot of those women a purpose, too.) One instance from Mansfield Park comes to mind, where Mrs. Norris is picking on Fanny Price for sitting down and doing nothing; she says, "If you have no work of your own, I can supply you from the poor basket. There is all the new calico, that was bought last week, not touched yet." (In other words, Mrs. Norris thinks Fanny should be doing something "useful".) Through doing family history, I've seen various items from parish overseers' accounts where they say that "Widow Smith is given a nightgown, a shift and two pairs of stockings" etc, so the calico Mrs. Norris mentions might have been for sheets, nightdresses, baby clothes etc, or whatever else was handed out to the poor in the local area? (I can't even remember one hint that the Bennet sisters are encouraged to do anything similar at Longbourn.) Once Lizzy became Mrs. Darcy (as you say) she would effectively become the manager of the servants; she'd need to know how to run a household well enough to pull up any servants who were slacking, how to host a ball, organise menus/seating plans at dinner, host people from just about any social class. She'd also need to do the "patroness of the neighbourhood" things - attending charity events, maybe visiting the local school, organising events to "do good in the community", doing some of that sewing from the "poor basket" in her spare time - and she'd be going to church every Sunday knowing that everyone in the "Pemberley parish" would be watching her to see how she behaved/dressed/spoke to others. From that angle, Darcy being brutally honest about his "struggles" before deciding to propose for the first time start to make sense - even if his words are a bit too blunt; he knows his community will expect a lot from his future wife.

I just watched the mini series myself this weekend, and the novel its based on does into even more detail, on a day when lizzie is preparing for a massive ball that is held every year.

​@@Bazookatone1wow, where can I watch this miniseries ??

In so many ways that is what she was. Just that her husband wasn't doing the farming part.

It is because it is not an accurate depiction of how landed gentry lived. Mr. Darcy did not live in a manor! And what is described as Elizabeth’s duties actually belonged to the housekeeper.

Oo, yes, a day in the life of Mr Darcy!

We know that Darcy is wealthy, extremely wealthy, and while he’s related to members of the peerage, he holds no title himself. He was unable to inherit any title such as earl or duke, etc, because his father had no claim to the peerage either. He was a landowner, however, so most of his day to day would’ve been dealing with the work involved in the tenants renting property/farmland from him. As for raising the children, that task would’ve been left to a nanny or governess, out of both his and Elizabeth’s hands. They would’ve seen each other upon waking, at evening meals, and when settling for bed, but that’s about it

I would love to know how often the have sex tbh 🥴

@@maddiowens3549 Basically the same as a modern couple in fact, where the husband or both spouses goes out to work all day and they only see each other in the evening and weekends.

And you say that Elizabeth gets up and is dressed but presumably Darcy would have been in bed with her. Do they get up at the same time and then go into different rooms to be dressed by their respective servants?

I think it's explained in another video that Mr. Darcy isn't named after his mother's maiden name, but rather his godfather's last name. Of course, his godfather is his uncle and has a title, so naming him like that was to gain his godfather's favor.

It was common for women from aristocratic backgrounds to give their sons their maiden name to 'carry it on' in the only capacity they could, the name Bennet would definitely not warrant this treatment

Well then maybe Fitzwilliam junior isn't named after his father but also his godfather, who would be a member of the Fitzwilliam family, maybe Colonel Fitzwilliam or the current Earl.

I had no idea his name was Fitzwilliam

@@AndriaBieberDesigns he signed his letter to Elizabeth with his full name.

Definitely! I would read/watch it!

I'd watch it. We could call it Darcy

@@s6r231 The Delightful Darcy’s.

Bridgerton is mostly soapy drama, "period" is just the varnish. Anything remotely researched wouldn't even play in the same category.

I suggest the title The Life of Elizabeth Darcy

And if you neglect the work, you will soon be out of your estate, so.....

Yes - but it's work I think I would really like . . . 😃

@@agnes15101968 Not necessarily. You just need to make sure you hire a competent steward.

The linens reminded me of my grandmother, whose parents ran a linen farm, one of her skills was "pulling thread" which made designs in the fabric. She didn't stay to further her training, however, because her family wanted to marry her to a rich old man, so her aunt and uncle carried her off to America, where she married a poor laborer, instead, an became a caterer...and, of course, my Busia ❤

I have read several novels in which older members of the family refuse to use the term "week end." When they invite people to stay they mention the exact dates.

To quote the Dowager Countess Lady Violet, "What is a "weekend"?" 😆

There's a number of historical issues in this beyond that. Why on Earth would Georgiana be in London in the dead of summer...?

@@kartos. Good point. Dentist?

I believe they would attend church on Sunday

Yay! I’m so glad it is helpful!!! 😃😂😃

Yes, I’m the mistress of Pemberley East in my neck of the woods. Definitely grooving on the notion of a greenhouse (aka glass house, as I think they were called back then in England).

@@rosezingleman5007 'Orangery' probably, in a demense the size of Pemberly

Lizzie is not heartless to make her sister into a woman in the attic

Didn`t he leave the Militia (which was a reserve force, not the regular army)? But maybe not, perhaps some of the money he got after the elopement was used to buy a commission in the regulars which is "the position" Darcy acquires for him, it would be a good way to never have to see him again. I kind of have visions of Wickham and Lydia colliding with George Osborne, Becky Sharp, and some of the other Vanity Fair characters at the Dutchess of Ritchmond`s Ball just before Waterloo and maybe getting into a situation with Colonel Richard Sharpe outside! I can totally see Osborne and Wickham getting involved in a drunken card game and Wickham making advances towards Becky!

I couldn't have done half that much. Then again, I am disabled. But really, even when I was able bodied, I'd have been worn right out by dinner time. I would have eaten the food, and then MELTED. "Oh, you want to hang out over your port? That's fine. I'm just going to go pass out now. See you tomorrow."

Same! 😂

Right?! 😅

That’s a really good question and would like to know the answer as well!

I don't have a terrifically in-depth analysis--mid- to late Victorian is more my area of study!--but I can help a little! It's important to note that some of the fabrics they used back then are different now or have ceased to exist altogether. House dresses were much more comfortable and easy (think soft, clingy muslin!). With day dresses, muslin, printed cotton, and wool are likely, depending on the season and the financial position of the wearer (some women could afford to wear silk during the day!). They would have that particular deep neckline we associate with Regency gowns, but would most often have a fichu or kerchief tucked into the bodice for modesty, or would be worn with a spencer (short jacket). The fabrics themselves often had patterns woven in and weren't just plain cloth. For dinners and evenings, the low neckline was considered appropriate, and gowns would have been made from things like silk, satin, and velvet, I believe. Accessorizing was also a HUGE part of how you would dress appropriately--your bonnets, your hair ornaments, your jewelry, your gloves, etc etc.

Which is a shame, since hygiene back them was atrocious. They only took a handful of baths a month. And that's the wealthy. 🤭

@@akapam57 Oh, man, but no though! They weren't disgusting. They were pretty fastidious. They may not have taken complete baths or showers like we do, but you'd wash up in the morning every day! I think most people think that just means "their face," but nah. It was all your bits and bobs.

@@clarerichardson8770 "bits and bobs" 😅

It unfortunately happens to the best of women. 😂

​@@EllieDashwoodI don't think it's true

I had to cut out even more fascinating linen information! 😂😂😂

This gave me "he understands muslin!" vibes

I have linen sheets.I understand the love!

@@EllieDashwood However, in order to truly appreciate sleeping on the best "linens", they really do need to be ironed, especially the pillow cases. Also, a steam iron will not do the job properly and you will need to sprinkle first, wrap the item up tightly and store them in the fridge for a few hours or overnight (crisper drawers are ideal for this if they're not already full of veg) and then ironed with a dry iron on a high setting. You will not believe the difference in the feel. It's almost like a different fabric again.

@@joannshupe9333 Wow, thank you for the idea! I never iron any bedsheets, or pillow cases, but if I ever do, I will now know, how!

Wow! That is so cool! 😃I was reading minds and didn’t even know it! 😂😂😂

I wonder if that is because the midday meal was often the main meal for lower classes and emphasised by the industrial revolution.

@@JB-vd8bi There is a lovely series by the late Clarissa Dickson Wright. I have found it on KZfaq, and it goes through the history of when "Lunch" became a thing, and all the mystery about it. She also explains how meals were moving about, why they moved as they did, and how lunch became a *Thing*. There are etiquette books as well that examine the difference between "Lunch" (midday meal) VS "Luncheon" (Social event) that explain why meals have all these different names.

Well we do get a look into Lizzie's life as an unmarried woman during the book! She reads, does needlework, practises piano and walks to Merryton a lot. Since she is not mistress of a house (Mrs Bennet is the mistress of Longbourn), I'd imagine she has more free time.

Often, she would making long visits to relatives and/or family friends and helping with their children (a la the Miss Steeles, who pay for their board by entertaining the kids in the house), or providing companionship to the lady of the house (a la Fanny Price). And helping make clothes for her brothers (a la Fanny Price and Catherine Morland).

Unmarried women did a lot but the books aren’t focused on daily chores (like modern rom coms aren’t) so it’s easy to think they didn’t do much. But unmarried life was less certain and you didn’t have the social standing so there are differences.

Aw! Thank you so much for watching! Maybe when the guests go home they can spend a morning walking the grounds together. 💕😍😂

Ellie was spot on by limiting Darcy's and Elizabeth's children. I've always thought that Darcy was aware of the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the Regency period, and how hard it would be on the health of his wife if she went through multiple pregnancies. Darcy would be solicitous of Elizabeth's health and limit the number of children they had, just as his father did with his mother. Of course, birth control for the upper classes would mean separate bedrooms. It's not how we see a healthy marriage in the 21st century, but it would be so back then.

@@missanne2908 All upper-class people had separate bedrooms for husband and wife. It was very unusual for upper-class couples to share the same bedroom. For one thing, the gentleman had his valet or gentleman's man to dress him, as the lady had her lady's maid. That made it inconvenient (pretty much impossible) to share a dressing area near or in the same bedroom.

@@missanne2908 more healthy than sharing a bedroom all the time. Where’s the allure of that? Both husbands and wives need a bit of time to themselves, and then spending the night together is a positive choice, not a nightly duty.

@@Happyheretic2308 I once saw a study years ago that found when women share their bed they get a poorer quality of sleep, so it is indeed literally healthier.

😂 Aw! Thank you!!!!

Linen is made from flax. Another name for flaxseed is 'linseed. That's like saying wool can be made from other fibres, like cotton.

I like how in the Bridgerton novels (and the show), they eat together as a family. In the books, it is pointed out how VERY ODD it is that they do so. SO unusual. I have my issues with the Bridgerton books, but I did rather like that part very much. It shows, in just one simple way, that the Bridgerton family were unusual, in a good way, and why they have such strong familial bonds: Because the parents ENFORCED familial bonds in a way most other families of the time simply did not. Of course, it's possible that they doubled their "Children's Hour" with one of their meals. Still, it was an unusual thing for people of their class, and with all the other inaccuracies in the books (and even more in the show - Queen Charlotte *sidling* into a ballroom, with her entourage, but not bringing everything to a halt, and people continue about their business as the walks in? At a BALL?! Excuse me, what?! It may have been her dream to do so, but it would never have been allowed. Also, when the reigning royal arrived, it didn't matter what time it was, nobody was allowed to enter after them. Which meant that, to be considerate of the other guests, the royals arrived late), I DO like how they made the "inaccuracy" of eating together as a family into an actual recognition of the eccentricity of the family in general, and the parents, in particular.

I mean I am from a modern family (clearly) and we didn’t eat together for more than couple of times a week. Different schedules and ideas when it’s good to eat and me and dad wanting to read while eating. Doesn’t mean we aren’t close. Now we did eat together when me and my brother we very small of course because youngest would need help. Kids in this scenario are 7-9 however.

At what age do the kids start sharing meals with their parents? Or do they ever?

@@jaimewallace6332 Adulthood.

@@cmm5542 At what age is one considered an adult?

I think they would dine later in London, keeping up with the busier social life, but in the countryside, where they would have to get up relatively early to run the state and household, they would dine early. The Bingleys didn't have much to do with their days, so they could keep to London hours.

I read somewhere that the hour of ‘dinner’ wasn’t set at this time, and in fashionable households was gradually getting later, so transitioning from afternoon to evening.

Seconded! It's the little details that really bring something alive! Also, all the budding authors who want to GET IT RIGHT need to know!

Which just reminded me of that letter Jane Austen wrote to her niece, saying such things as, "No, that person would not be introduced to this other person. It's the other way around." and other such stuff. Little details that the younger person did not quite know, because she was writing about people in the same class, but in a higher circle, and thus did not know the details of that circle, which Jane Austen did.

right? that always struck me as odd that they did that

Part of it was them flagrantly disregarding social propriety, for sure!

@@clarerichardson8770 I thought of that but shouldn't Mrs. Dashwood have done a bit more to regulate that?

I absolutely love Brooklinen sheets. (Though, have to wash them a number of times to reach perfection.) Their cotton sheets are so soft and I love that unlike pretty much every luxury sheet maker, they have colors besides white, tan, gray, and pale blue. 🥰

It’s a great channel!!!

Oooh! Thank you, I’ll go check it out 👀

I imagine it would be pretty much the same right up until she began to show, then it would remain similar but with only family and specific staff allowed to see her and no social engagements outside of the home.

It may be possible they've hired all available footmen in the region. Some men would have been expected to "take on the family farm" and the like, which may have limited the pool to begin with. Since household workers may have stuck around for quite a while, it may have been steady, but they would have been expected to be at the house. If they wanted to marry and do something else, unless they married within their workplace (which could be quite dicey depending on where you worked, whom for, and the general issues with marrying coworkers) they may not have had a chance at a family during their tenure. Seeking someone from London may have been a way to bring in someone without stressing the local population, and if the workload was a temporary situation they may find much easier someone from a city who would work on a temporary basis who would have had training and experience. If they would have come in permanently, it again may have been someone who was already willing to accept the conditions that such employment would entail.

Agreed!

Also please do more videos like this, maybe a weekend?

Aw! That’s so sweet!!!! I’m so glad you found our community! Welcome to the channel 😃😃😃

me aswelll...she wouldnt do it quite like this im imagining

I second this request!

This was a fun day to imagine! TY :-) Yes, my imaginary day would be different as well-one of the advantages of being married was breakfast in bed!

Usually until noon. Later breakfast. But the lady of the house had to see it was prepared properly, so Elizabeth would have had to both retire and rise earlier than her guests .

It's even worse when you realize that having guests was considered your duty when you owned an estate like that! If you were rich enough to own such a grand house, it was also your responsibility to fill it up. And guests often stayed for as long as they liked, regardless of whether they were "good" guests or not--you couldn't just ask someone to leave! (A great example of this is an essay I read about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, where I learned that his friendship with William Wordsworth became contentious because Coleridge was such a rotten houseguest).

Don't forget about the muslin! You need to understand muslin to woo a milady.

@@Hiraeth_Nightshade Sorry it took so long to reply! Getting some little odds and ends done. (It's Saturday; ) Hiraeth...Welsh? Is it not? Ummm...Nostalgic...right? And nightshades grow everywhere, if I am not mistaken. Oh! And are beneficial health-wise! So! Cool username! Thus, I will gladly take advice from someone who is clever enough to come up with that nom de plume. Off to understand muslin! And...thank-you! (If this works, I will credit you! = )

Greetings, Classics Lover. I am a single woman of gentle birth and breeding, with a good education, and many accomplishments. Oddly enough, I also know a person with a promo code for excellent linens. Perhaps we should meet, in a proper setting, of course, and compare notes on our mutual connections.

@@Hiraeth_Nightshade Ah, yes! If you're going to woo Mrs. Allen, you simply MUST know muslin. She'll know then that she can trust you! A man who knows his muslin is always trustworthy. Of course, in order to woo Mrs. Allen, you'll have to wait for Mr. Allen to pop off, but you could always use your influence with her to help you woo a younger, and more importantly, single, young lady, instead.

@@AuntLoopy123 Greetings, Michelle! I am a single man of some accomplishment with a good education...but, much like Pooh Bear, "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and letters get in the wrong places. " Although...that could also be attributed to my typing skills. I mention all of this because yes, I would be very pleased to meet with you in a proper setting, as I find you intriguing. And I am very fond of note comparisons. I simply forewarn you of the "Wobbles" as a kind courtesy. Do you have a preferred proper stetting in mind? I have an email attached to this username, of course, but I can also perhaps...dust off Twitter? I can supply contact information for either. Or you may have another preference. Direct me as you will, as I am at your service!

Aw! Yay! Thanks so much for watching!!!

I’ve often read that this was usually done when they were “in town” and I’ve seen this referred to as “keeping town hours”. I believe it was the custom in the countryside to rise early because of all the things they had to do and people in town just didn’t have people or land to go and visit. If anyone has any more info, I’d love to hear it!

Yay!!! I’m so glad it’s helping! 😃😃😃

I was going to also point out that the mistress of a great estate would not be allowed to visit someone with consumption, it was too dangerous.

yeee i thought that too...she wouldnt do it quite the typical way