Emma Tennant, Pemberley

Gina Wisker (University of Brighton)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.3: Scottish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Ash-Irisarri (University of Edinburgh), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), J. Derrick McClure (University of Aberdeen), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1993

Places

Scotland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Appearing simultaneously with Julia Barrett's

Presumption

, another sequel to Jane Austen's most popular novel

Pride and Prejudice

, Emma Tennant's

Pemberley

Pride and Prejudice Continued

(1993), takes Elizabeth Bennet into married life with Fitzwilliam Darcy. The novel explores an area of life untouched by Austen herself, whose loving couples are rarely able to rise above conventional dialogues having escaped the social constraints of dull, dangerous or hypocritical company.

Pemberley

concentrates on Elizabeth Bennet's anxiety over producing an heir for Darcy, to inherit his landed wealth, the house and grounds which so clearly signify his nobility and the grounds of his pride, in

Pride and Prejudice

. Thus the novel continues the concern of the nineteenth-century novel with marriage…

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Citation: Wisker, Gina. "Pemberley". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2861, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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