Jane Austen Movie Throwdown

As we read Pride and Prejudice all of us have imagined Pemberley. Which house best represents the Pemberley you imagined?

Wilton House (Interior) Chatsworth House (Exterior): Pride and Prejudice 2005

Lyme Park: Pride and Prejudice 1995

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Which house best fits the Pemberley of your imagination?

Wilton House (2005) Lyme House (1995)

Louis Simond's Impression of Wilton House's Park and Gardens

Wilton House, located in Wiltshire, is the ancestral home of the Earls of Pembroke. In 1811, Louis Simond wrote about his visit to the great house in An American in Regency England. Here is his description of the park and grounds.

I measured an evergreen oak (not a large tree naturally); it covered a space of seventeen paces in diameter, and the trunk was twelve feet in circumference. An elm was sixteen feet in circumference, and many appeared about equal. Beyond the water, which before it spreads out into a stagnant lake, is a lively stream, you see an insulated hill covered with wood. We went to it by a very beautiful bridge. The view from that eminence is fine, and its slope would have afforded a healthier and pleasanter situation for the house. The deer came to the call, and ate leaves held to them - too tame for beauty, as they lose by it their graceful inquietude and activity and become mere fat cattle for the shambles. Deer are a good deal out of fashion, and have given way to sheep in many parks.



Deer in Richmond Park

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Veteran Oak, Windsor Park

Arial view of the Wilton House grounds