Novelty and Amusement? Visiting the Georgian Country House

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By Richard Wilson, published 31st May 2001

The best-known country house visit in literature is that to Pemberley of Elizabeth Bennet, accompanied by her uncle and aunt Gardiner. Few events make better costume drama: personal and class unease, historic dress and carriages, grand house and landscape park. But beneath the tension of Elizabeth’s unexpected meeting with Darcy, the account of the tour of house and park precisely encapsulates the practice of country house visiting around 1800.

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