This story needs to be a BBC miniseries.

Philadelphia and Eliza's story is 100% great material for telenovelas.

The "escape from France with a friend who does not speak French" part is thrilling!! They should totally make it a movie : )

I would love to see a BBC series about Eliza, Philadelphia, and the Count. They would make a very fascinating miniseries.

What a fascinating life. I would have loved to meet the Comtesse de Feuillide. Even if her title was false, I could probably see myself willfully ignoring it just because she was so charming.

I love the letters of young Eliza, they are fun to read (and more enjoyable in the way you read them). I’ll start to use the “I don’t think i am very likely to lose either my gaiety or peace of mind for any male creature breathing” sentence whenever someone ask me if i am dating someone, and specifically the “male creature breathing” part for plenty of situations. I would have loved to know her!

I love Eliza! She absolutely was the typical rich cousin we all aspire to be

The entire film "becoming Jane " has a lot to answer for, not only the way Eliza was depicted but also Jane herself.

This whole story should be a movie.

Wow! What a crazy and remarkable life! Sad she died at only 50 (although at the time it wouldn’t have been unusual) - but she certainly packed it in! One thing that always makes interesting historical stories more fun - their being true stories. Thanks for another fun and interesting video! ✨

Philadelphia, Hastings... these people got their baby names from an atlas, eh? Next up in the series, Jane Austen's nephew, Kalamazoo Austen.

What a great story! I love how you tell the stories of both women. Managing what they did in times very tough for women. Eliza especially must have been incredibly charismatic.

I can see bits and pieces of Eliza’s story in all of JA’s stories.

Love this video, I was actually thinking of Mary Crawford from Mansfield Park when hearing about Eliza not wanting to marry Henry due to him wanting to be a country parson. I don't feel like Eliza really fits the bill for any of Austen's characters as a whole though. She could have her own bbc series as someone mentioned just since her actual life was very interesting and drama filled.

Ooh la la I loved this one! And yes! A movie! about Eliza's amazing life, complete with JANE AUSTEN as the costar!

Thanks for the video. Great research and story telling. I love your navy blue dress and the pearls. You look fabulous!

Great video. Thank you. I wonder what happened to her husband's mistress, how you know he had one, and if it is known why she didn't have a child with her cousin.

Eliza is a total badass. I love her! Wonderful video as always

As an Eliza I’m hell proud!! 💪🤩🤌👏

All the while I was looking forward to you mentioning the portrayal of Eliza in Becoming Jane... It was in its day unforgettable to me, and I found Lucy Cohu so beautiful in the role. I'm surprised it's possible to be left with an impression of her as "washed out" in that movie. She was anything but! Jane (and by extension, the audience) seems to look up to the glamour, wordliness and sensuality of her older cousin, who talks about Marie Antoinette, wears French fashion (which is old, but doesn't seem old on her), impresses people with her title (to the point it almost gains Jane a marriage), and gets doted on by Henry. I didn't get the impression at all that the romance with Henry was one-sided. Yes, money played a part, so their marriage was "sensible" in that way, but you clearly got the impression they also loved each other (and the actor who played Henry.. gaaaaahd). I even felt their relationship was set up as a contrast to Jane and Tom Lefroy's, as "the successful one" the one where they got each other in the end (which Jane and Tom did not). Constantly around Jane and Tom as the movie progressed, were Eliza and Henry, "the happier couple", flirting and having a physical relationship, quite openly. I felt the lession Jane was meant to learn from this was that a love match is possible, but only as long as one or both has access to money. Therefore Jane made sure that all of the happy endings for her own heroines involved both love and secure financing. I may remember some of this wrong, but it is my honest impression of the movie - and I very much recognized the Eliza from this video. Becoming Jane is far from a perfect movie, but this I felt was unfair.

Another great video Miss Dashwood, thank you! Your hair also looks absolutely gorgeous!

utterly adorable presentation of a fascinating story. in other hands this could have been confusing and/or tedious but nope! ellie to the rescue! storytelling panache!

As a french person, let me tell you I am not offended by the murder of Mr de Feuillide's name. We murder english names all the time.

I'm wondering now if she's Elizabeth Bennet's namesake. The way she went by Betsy when she was young and Eliza when she was older, the way only Elizabeth's family call her Lizzie and to everyone else she's Eliza...

“Jean-Francois Capot de Feuillide” gives vibes of “Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale”

I love these stories!! Please make other videos about stories from the Victorian period!!

There's a hilarious book by a Nicholas Ennos contending that Jane Austen's novels were actually written by Eliza. I don't buy it, especially since he also believes the moon landings were faked, but it was amusing.

I pressed the like button so… refinedly.

I do love these tales from the past Truth truly is stranger than fiction

She could totally have met Ben Franklin, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson when in Paris. They were down there too, I think, when these hot air balloons were launched.

what is it with jane austen adaptations and biopics always showing any married or widowed woman as middle-aged? a woman could be a 'mrs someone' and also under the age of 40!

This needs to be a movie!

Great story. Eliza had quite the life

A great story well told, with the vibrancy and sheer enthusiam you have for your content ... Its such a treat to listen to! Thank you!

The fake comte's desire to drain the swamp reminds me of part of the plot of a great French film called Ridicule that is set in the same time period which ends far happier for the swamp drainer than it did for the fake comte de Feuillide.

A great video of a fascinating woman! Some French housekeeping: Feuillide is pronounced "Fuy-eed." Dauphin is pronounced "doe-fah." Comte is pronounced "kohnt."

Ellie, you are extraordinary !!!! You and your videos make my live brighter !!!! I imagine myself ,there, somewhere, in each story of yours ! I love your passion for that period . In one of your previous lives you danced in many of the balls you mentioned ! I know it for sure because I was there too . Thank you for your work and for sharing !🥰

WOW!! That is quite a life to have had. I think it speaks to her and her mother's adventurous and resilient spirit that, even through some MAJOR life events, they always found a way to be well.

Yay! I’ve never been so early! 🥰 love your videos! ❤️

I love how i commented yesterday that i was waiting for this video and i feel heard thanks your a peach.

Your content is my favorite on YT. What a great story!

YASSSS I've been waiting for this vid! Love it!

What a life! You are also very good at telling exciting stories.

luv u ellie!!! 💕💕

What a great narrator. She pulls the story through

Fascinating video on a fascinating life. Thanks!

I adore the way you tell these stories 😆

Necesito una película de Eliza!!!

I interpreted Eliza in "Becoming Jane" a bit differently. To me, Henry clearly likes her and they both flirt. What she does is just to offer him money when he needs it and generally just being generous to him, as in the movie they present her as a rich person in her own accord. I do agree that it would have been infinitely better if she was portrayed as this beautiful society lady that does as she pleases and that turns bad situations to interesting ones, as she did in real life. She truly xould have married anyone she wanted, yet she married Henry Austen. She could have stayed free the rest of her short life... I guess she did love him. I also didn't think they had a bad casting, it was a more mature, beautiful woman. I do not know what is supposed to be the age difference between her and Jane but she looked to me like an older cousin or even a young Auntie that is fun to hang around with.

I think she was such an original and charming figure! She really must have been very modern for those times! No wonder Jane and her brothers where bewitched by her! :)

I smack the like button at the start of your videos so I don't commit the heinous sin of forgetting at the end, Seriously though Ellie I do love your channel. This as always is great listening. When life gives Eliza lemons she makes lemonade. A quick question whilst I'm here, I've been listening to the full collection of Austin audio books, why have I struggled so much with the characters of Sense and Sensibility?

This is a great video!

Newly uploaded video got me going back to the old classics ❤ love this stuff.

Eliza talking about beaux reminds me of Sense and Sensibility 😂

Love your storytelling! I have read Jane's books and some biographies but had not remembered anything about cousin Eliza. Thanks!

Thanks!!!!😊👍🏽😁

Am I the only one who kept thinking of Mary Crawford when Eliza was being described?

Hello! I’m going to a regency ball soon, and I’d like to know where you got your dress. It looks gorgeous on you! 🥰

Eliza was incredible. No wonder Henry married her.

I cant believe that people can change their nicknames that easy, i have been most of my life asking my family to stop calling me a nickname they put me when i was a baby because it makes me feel like a grandma lol (jossie)

Wow, what a crazy life!

Most exciting books are biographies!

I don't feel like there was enough vetting before Eliza's first marriage.

50 is SO YOUNG. I needed a huge sequel post escaping France of what her life would’ve been now back in England😩

I've been waiting ages for this video! Thank youuuuuu :-)

As a native of the Philadelphia area, I find it hilarious that it was a woman's name once!

Ok, you got me hooked with Jane Austen and the theme itself.

When life gives you lemons... make some lemonade!

They need ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ for their French escape!

I declare myself Le Comte de Merestone. Bow before me, peasants--but not before bringing me the fruits of your labors!

Está bueno el chisme sisi

This was fascinating

Can you please explain how it is cheaper to live in Continental Europe at the time? I keep seeing this in history videos but I can't find any info on google... tia x

Just a tip from a French person! Feuillide is simply pronounced fuh-YEED ;)

You'll hate me for this but, I can speak French with a French accent!!! I don't know how I do it but I've always been able to do that. I went to French immersion from play school that's before kindergarten in Canada. I can do it with Italian and Spanish too. I'm just thankful I that I can!!! 🧐😁🧐 Take care and have fun!!! 💃🕺💃 😷😎😷

Didn't you leave out the part where Eliza spies for the American government and passes on the secrets of how to make French Fries?

Eliza seems more exciting and wild than Lydia or Mary Crawford....Isabelle Thorpe.

Tea drinking? I love tea drinking :)

Hey, what is the situation? I think that in the UK first cousins are still allowed to marry. It's just a rare occurrence (quite common in Asian families but that's something else!)

I understand the apprehension of following parental advice, but I can name countless friends and relatives living in REGRET, sometimes delusionally.

Did it bother the men if their women were entertaining other men ? I just wonder about this since they often had mistresses. Eliza seems to be a pleasant fun person who nevér gives up ❤

Love the video! And all your videos! Though I must comment on the pronunciation of Dauphin. Its more like Dough-faun (very soft "n", just in the nose) rather than Daw-fin. I'm sorry, I am deeply pedantic. Again, LOVE your videos :)

I took 12 years if french, I'm still terrible at it, it's cool

It sounds like everything in relation to the Comte didn’t really go well. Even unfortunately the passing away of her son. So sad.

Tea it's my passion

I read balls on the screencap and thought of every type of the ball but the one shes talking about

So…she married a guy who promised to “Drain The Swamp”? That doesn’t always = happy happy.

Crazy! I just took a deep dive on the French Revolution and finished it yesterday - and today, I’m swimming around in the ‘life and times’ of someone that actually lived through it… (My ancestors fled Normandy to England during the French Revolution…) not sure if that’s cool, or embarrassing 👀🤣 oh, btw… do you think it is possible that the Lady Susan inspiration could have been Eliza’s mum, with Eliza being the daughter? What do you think? Is it plausible, or way off? 🤔😊

Your foundation is really nice, what do you use.

The way you pronounce Feuillide x)

Feuillide? Would that be pronounced Foy-eede?

Did she loose her title (even though not real) when she married Henry?

Why did Jane Austen never write about her cousin Eliza? Was it just not done? Was it because no one would believe it???

Hah, I changed my name too halfway through my teen years! Though I am neither a young woman, nor of gentility...

@_@ that feels like a lot of land today also tho

❤

Which novel you will consider regency era "50 shades of Grey"?

the last name of Eliza's husband is pronounced "fuhiyide", or something like that, the double L in French can be confusing on when to pronounce it as a Y and when to as an L, I still get confused

I'm French and let me say it: you have a very good accent =)

Do we know where if Jane based any of her characters off Eliza or Philadelphia ?