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8 August 2004

A day without P&P3 shooting news is like a day without sunshine

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 8:34 pm

A tidbit in an article about Chatsworth (also linked below) states that the Devonshire estate will be the shooting location for Pemberley in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, along with a fascinating bit of film-geek technical information:

Jane Austen was so bowled over by Chatsworth that it may have been the model for Mr. Darcy’s Pemberley, and most certainly will be the setting for a new movie of ”Pride and Prejudice” to be filmed this fall — at night, so as not to disturb the paying public. Helium-filled balloons will rise to the ceiling with lighting that will replicate daytime.

We begin to think that Chatsworth as a shooting location can be considered a definite thing.

The article is quite enjoyable and worth reading, even if you don’t care about film news.

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Travel with Jane

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 8:19 pm

Would you like to take a Jane Austen-related tour of England? A&E Travel (apparently an offshoot of the television network) is offering “The Legacy of Jane Austen Tour:”

Steventon, England, where Jane Austen spent the first 25 years of her life and wrote “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “Northanger Abbey,” is the first chapter of “The Legacy of Jane Austen Tour” Sept. 16-21. The plot thickens with an excursion to the Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton and a visit to Winchester Cathedral to see Jane Austen’s grave. Relevant sites in Southampton, Bath and London keep the pages turning. The $1,400 fee covers accommodations, some meals, activities and transfers. Round-trip trans-Atlantic transportation to London is additional. Offered by A&E Travel of New York, the tour will be repeated March 14-19, 2005. (877-AETours; www.aetvtravel.com)

A funny and slightly snarky article about Chatsworth uses an example from Jane’s work to explain that tours of grand houses is not a recently-developed activity:

There has been a grand house on the grounds at Chatsworth since Elizabethan times. Centuries before the concept existed of the stately home as museum, strangers could knock on the door and have a housekeeper show them the family’s paintings and sculpture (as Elizabeth Bennett and her aunt and uncle did at Pemberley in ”Pride and Prejudice”).

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