![]() ![]() ![]() And so, when at the beginning of the last volume, Baker got around to the back story on Mrs. Bennett was, or what a creeper Wickham was. I never really connected with the help Baker didn’t make me care about all the work they were doing, or how annoying Mrs. Bingley’s footman (who, in the end, isn’t given nearly enough page time), and while it goes somewhere, it feels kind of superfluous. There’s a slight love triangle among Sarah, James and Mr. It’s also a dirty book - literally, there’s dirt, blood, pig slop, mud, you name it - Baker doesn’t whitewash the 19th-century. However, unlike Austen’s witty observations on human character, Longbourn is a very pedantic book: every day is get up, do the work, collapse in bed. ![]() The format follows the plot arc of P&P, though the concerns of the servants are (predictably) not the concerns of Lizzie and Jane. Hill, the housekeeper Sarah, a maid and James, a footman. (Darcy not so much) However, it’s really only the framework of P&P because our main characters are three servants: Mrs. But, with Downton Abbey bringing the servants to the forefront, I guess it was about time we got one.Īll the familiar settings - Longbourn, Pemberly, Rosings, London - are there, as are the familiar characters, especially Lizzie, Jane, Mr. In all my many years of reading Pride and Prejudice take-offs (fan fiction, if you want to be literal) I’m not quite sure I’ve come across one written from the servants’ point of view. ![]()
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