{"id":418,"date":"2013-09-17T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2013-09-17T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:44:15","slug":"september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no possibility of taking a walk that day\u201d \u2013 would have been a better opening line to \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d on 16<sup>th<\/sup> August, when the Chapterhouse Theatre Company performed Jane Austen\u2019s novel in the beautiful setting of the sunken lawn of Knebworth House Gardens.\u00a0 But \u2013 bucking the trend of this summer that only began in July \u2013 we got lucky with the weather!\u00a0\u00a0 Having rained all day, it turned into the perfect evening with a glorious sunset and the 500 Jane Austen fans, celebrating the novel\u2019s 200<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, enjoyed the perfect picnic with Mr. Darcy.\u00a0 Unless of course they were hoping he would get his shirt wet!<\/p>\n<p>That opening line, for those who aren\u2019t champion quiz-nighters, is actually the opening line of \u201cJane Eyre\u201d.\u00a0 Charlotte Bronte\u2019s novel is more my kind of book.\u00a0 If girls in bonnets are fretting about marrying a bloke in a big house \u2013 ask my wife \u2013 they are more likely to find hard graft and melodrama than dancing with Mr. Darcy!\u00a0 I have always been surprised that my ancestor Emily Bulwer Lytton, aged nineteen, did not like \u201cJane Eyre\u201d when it was published in 1847.\u00a0 She would surely have related to Jane\u2019s schooldays and traumatic childhood?\u00a0 Then, this summer, I read Sarah Wise\u2019s book \u201cInconvenient People\u201d which has a whole chapter on Emily\u2019s mother Rosina Bulwer Lytton, the \u201cmad\u201d wife who wouldn\u2019t divorce her husband and who threatened to appear at any moment and ruin everything\u2026 and then I understood why Emily did not like \u201cJane Eyre\u201d! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/\">www.knebworthhouse.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no possibility of taking a walk that day\u201d \u2013 would have been a better opening line to \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d on 16th August, when the Chapterhouse Theatre Company performed Jane Austen\u2019s novel in the beautiful setting of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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