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Hilarious 😂

Great Video!! I literally needed this!

Rule 7: If she smokes, she pokes.

Some women behave like men in this day and age. Screaming and cursing inside stores and on the street. I find it so disgusting manners have gone out the window

Men didn't have to wear mourning clothes because their regular look was like they were in mourning.

Very interesting indeed!

I thought one of the rules was "Don't be racist". Someone should talk to the Duchess.

I think it’s interesting how many of these rules trickled over to American culture, especially southern culture. For instance, the book “Little women” has a whole minor plot centered around how the girls can’t dance at a ball if they don’t have gloves. And the book “Gone with the wind” goes into a lot of these customs that were still being preserved late in the 19th century such as the mourning customs. We even have leftover remnants of this today such as very traditional widows not wearing jewelry except their wedding band worn on the right hand instead of the left

Nice storytelling, thank you for sharing the history with us!!!

Love this!

Interesting video - Bingley and Jane Bennett broke the two dance rule in Pride and Prejudice? According to report they danced several times in the hop at Meryton. And the lady not being seen together with a man alone, again in Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennett seemed happy to stroll around Rosings Park with Colonel Fitzwilliam? The etiquette rules I noticed were that a man nearly always bowed to a lady, and a lady nearly always curtseyed to a man, even when, like Darcy and Lizzie at times, they weren't on the best of terms. And people didn't speak to one another until they had first been introduced. So when in Pride and Prejudice Mr Collins goes up, unintroduced, to Mr Darcy, Darcy gives him short shrift. Must admit it seemed in some ways a more gracious age, but must have been rather wearing. And the underclasses, the household servants for example, were almost treated as non-people.

Any rules for men???

Thank you for the video! I shared it with the "Austen Mondays" group, as they are hosting a slow read of P&P. It's through The Rosenbach, and there have been many JA scholars (Jocelyn Harris, Devoney Looser) giving interviews!

Makes sense to me, in this day and age. A lot of today's generation could do with theses rules apply😉😂

"Isn't this constant worrying about your reputation actually quite exhausting." It is no different today. When you're brought up with it, it's natural. We know the line between showing cleavage and showing nipple. At a dinner party, we wouldn't sit on the table. We don't do a LOT of things, lest people think we're a savage. Different rules, perhaps, but no fewer, I wager!!!

Thank you for making this video! Happy holidays

i just noticed how big mr. darcys hands are made to be in the movie! thats....attractive, i must say

I loved this! The examples were great as well :)

Seems rather dangerous and over the top to force yourself to faint to the ground when someone else offends with bad language or bad manners.

Amazing to see reputation still matters so much today. Especially with social media, influencers and brand deals.

We're the "lower classes" expected to follow the same rules the "upper class" followed?

seems funny to go to all that length to protect your reputation and a lot of them were having affairs..such hypocracy

The countryside was a bit less restrictive but I expect that going to London for the Season must have been a trial. These girls were so young, seventeen or eighteen, taken from home to be paraded around in front of a very sophisticated group of people, Very scary and with so much competition, for a suitable husband ,there would always be people looking out for indiscretions, no matter how minor. Most of the rules would be restrictive but fine, however I keep remembering how unconfident I was at that age. To have been thrown in at the deep end would have made me feel very gauche ,clumsy and probably spotty!

I thought Lady Danbury was Lady Whistledown. They sound so much alike. Then during the big reveal I was so confused so I felt the need to rewatch the season.

Excellent info and great visuals! A little hint -- the phrase is "beyond reproach", not "beyond approach." Reproach means censure or criticism.

Very interesting thank you! Must have been very stifling and stressful! No wonder Elizabeth Bennett liked long walks in the countryside on her own! I'd be with her lol. X

Oh I so knew it was Penelope in the beginning! Go Penelope! But they did kinda convince me it was Madame de la Croix 🤣

This is really interesting

I'm bias but that it the most gorgeous shade of blue 💙💙 Also, you should do audiobooks. You have a voice like dense coffeecake

Great content, but for next time, coul you try to make the audio a little louder? I had it turned all the way up and had a really hard time understanding you xx

I also noticed at every ball, everytime Lady Whistledown began to speak they'd show Penelope first.

I agree! And I 100% would love to live in Highbury over all the other places in Austen's books ❤

Fantastic! I’d forgotten about Penelope’s barbed comment at the ball. That’s a big clue. So out of character

Very unique concept! Looking forward to April lol

My first suspicion was Penelope, but I had my doubts when she was asking Marina about how babies were made cause I feel it made Penelope seem very naive and Lady Whistledown doesn’t haha.

, I also thought it was madame de la croix!