Pd james death comes to pemberley7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Small wonder that Elizabeth Bennet was her favourite among the fascinating young women she created for us. Death Comes to Pemberley is a powerful work of fiction, rich in its compelling story, in its evocation of place, and its gripping psychological and emotional. She is loyal to her family, loving to her sister Jane, and is her father’s favourite child, inheriting his intelligence and wit. ![]() ![]() In many ways she resembles a modern heroine, confident, courageous enough to stand up to the terrifying and arrogant Lady Catherine de Bourgh and with a mind of her own. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with. Elizabeth, the second Bennet daughter and only 20, has vitality, courage and intelligence and although she is not a great beauty like her oldest sister Jane, she is very attractive and admired for her particularly fine eyes. Pride and Prejudice is, of course, a great love story, probably the greatest in our literature. Darcy and Elizabeth, happily married and with two handsome and healthy boys in the nursery, have their happiness and, indeed, their marriage threatened by a murder inquiry centred on Pemberley itself. The result was Death Comes to Pemberley and I was able to contrast the peace, beauty and hierarchy of a great house with the discovery of a young officer violently done to death in a part of the Pemberley estate known as the wild woodland. ![]()
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