Andie’s Comments (group member since Jun 26, 2014)

Andie’s comments from the Austen August: A Pride and Prejudice Read-A-Long group.

haha Glad you enjoyed it Lore :)

I am thinking of doing another Austen August next year for Northanger Abbey/Persuasion, but I'll have to wait and see how busy real life gets before I can promise anything

awh im glad you guys enjoyed it! haha I'm exhausted now somehow but I really enjoyed it too. I'll do a wrap up post on my blog in a bit :)

So Bingley and Jane, and Darcy and Lizzie get married.

Afterwards, Bingley buys an estate near to Pemberly, and Jane and Lizzie visit each other frequently.

Annoyingly, Lydia and Wickham often visit, asking Darcy for money a lot, and visiting the Bingleys so often that even he, probably one of the nicest and kindest men in the whole novel, gets tired of them! Kitty is kept away from Lydia's influence and matures more in the presence of Jane and Elizabeth (I imagine, much to her parents relief!)...

Lady Catherine eventually comes around to the idea of Elizabeth being married to Darcy and starts to visit them at Pemberly, while Lizzie has become close friends with Darcy's sister Georgiana, and even manages to be civil towards Caroline Bingley!

They always welcomed the Gardiners into their home, and loved them fondly, as it was because of them Elizabeth visited Pemberly and set the events I motion for Darcy and Elizabeth to be together.



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Awh brilliant! Glad you enjoyed it Kristine :) I'm just putting up the final chapter summaries of the book now and then it's all done! The read-a-long for the month, anyway- I'm leaving the board up generally so fans of it can always talk about it here,create more discussion boards and re-read the chapter summaries as quick references!

Here we have an annoyingly cute chapter where Elizabeth and Darcy are talking and she asks Darcy when he first decided she wasn't so annoying after all.

“I cannot fix upon the hour, or the spot, or the looks, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew I had begun.”


Darcy writes to his aunt about their engagement (I'm sure she is over the moon.) and Mrs Bennet writes to the Collins' to do the same- in the end the Collins, the Lucases and Mrs Phillips wind up visiting Longbourn in the hopes of escaping a very angry Lady Catherine. Can't help but be amused at the mental image of Lady Catherine reading that letter...

Lizzie tells Jane about her change in affection for Darcy and for his intention to marry her. Jane is completely stunned and somehow disbelieves that Darcy has these intentions for Lizzie (yeah sure, you believe in Wickham but not Darcy!).

Darcy and Lizzie go walking together again and later that evening, Darcy goes to Mr Bennet to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage; the talk between Mr Bennet and Lizzie is really cute and once he knows about Darcy's part in finding Lydia, he is all smiles about it- apart from giving his favourite daughter away, of course. D'aww.

As she leaves, he tells her “if any young men appear for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure”

When Lizzie tells Mrs Bennet, I think it's the first time in the entire book where she is lost for words!

This is it guys- the entire book has been leading up to this moment!



Shortly after Lady Catherine let Lizzie know exactly what she thought of her, Darcy arrives to visit the Bingleys at Netherfield Park a few days after. (To visit Bingley...right.)

They arrive to visit the Bennets, and Bingley immediately suggests they go walking rather than be subjected to Mrs Bennet and her rants...So Bingley, Jane, Darcy, Lizzie and Kitty all go for a walk together. Bingley and Jane went ahead, while the other three lag behind, and Kitty decides to stop in at the Lucases and call on Charlotte's sister Maria- leaving Darcy and Lizzie to talk.



Lizzie tells Darcy she has been waiting ages to thank him properly for his help with Lydia's situation. Darcy says that he is sorry that it has weighed on her mind so much, and he wishes her aunt had kept her mouth shut.

“If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you....My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever”

Can this chapter just be an award ceremony for Darcy and his speeches because the rest of the chapter is pretty much just...yes. Perfect. Good.





:3 Very Dizzie Happy!

it's just so full of warm fuzzies XD it reminds me somehow of the "Something There" scene from beauty and the beast haha

I swear to god, that sentence could be my mother's motto in life. Such a curtain twitcher!

hahahaah "How to insult a girl in thirty syllables or less"

I agree 100%! I need that on a t-shirt

haha I'll share the popcorn with you!

He likely would be!!

haha yes! Lady Catherine is basically probably plotting Elizabeth's early demise at this point!

I love that scene in the drama, it's great XD Mrs Bennet being as theatrical as ever!!

Austen frustration to the max!!

A letter arrives from Mr Collins, further hinting that a proposal from Darcy is imminent. Mr Bennet scoffs at the letter, not believing it for a second.

Mr Bennet is surprised because “Mr Darcy, who never looks at any woman but to see a blemish, and who probably never looked at you in your life!” Charming!!


And this chapter summary is very half hearted because I KNOW WHAT IS COMING NEXT OH HO!

One week after Bingley and Jane's engagement, Lady Catherine de Bough honours the Bennet household with her presence. (May god be with them all.)

She tells Elizabeth she wishes to speak to her alone, and proceeds to tell her that she recently heard a hilarious rumour that Darcy was planning on proposing to Elizabeth and that, obviously, this is ridiculous because of Elizabeth's low status in life and the fact that Darcy is supposedly meant to be engaged to her own daughter instead.

Elizabeth manages to hide her shock and keep her compose in front of Lady Catherine, while informing her that herself and Darcy are not and never were engaged to be married- however, she refuses to promise to Lady Catherine that she never will be engaged to her nephew, should he decide to ask her again. Lady Catherine tells her that not only is she supposedly bound by honour and gratitude to promise never to become engaged to Darcy, but also that her family's status would ruin that of Darcy's so much that she would be causing a disaster by doing so.

Lizzie defends herself and her family, and basically tells Lady Catherine where she can go. AWH YEAH. Lady Catherine is not amused.

Favourite Quotes:-

“ I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

Pretty much. She makes it quite difficult doesn't she?

Mrs Bennet conspires to leave Bingley and Jane alone so that Bingley can propose, but he doesn't do so until a few days later- YAY HE PROPOSES : D YAY JANE AND BINGLEY!



After which, Jane discovers that Bingley had no idea that Jane was in London over the winter and it was in fact a scheme of his sisters to keep them apart. - haha in yo face Caroline Bingley!