Pride and Prejudice Vol. II Chapters 17-19

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04/07/20 • 58 min

Chapter 17: Lizzy tells Jane everything about Darcy's proposal (except the truth about why Bingley left her hanging) and Wickham's true character. Highlights include "Wicked Wickham," "I happen to like nice men," the fluidity of sexuality in Jane Austen, bitch crackers, team defend Darcy vs. defame Wickham, and Lizzo for the Austen era.

Chapter 18: Lydia gets an invitation to join the Forsters on their trip to Brighton with the regiment. Highlights include the splitting up of Kydia, Brighton spring break, and Wickham sending dick pics on Snapchat.

Chapter 19: A deep-dive into the Bennet parents. Lizzy's plans for the summer change. Highlights include the younger, hotter versions of Mr. and Mrs. B, who's playing Daddy Bennet in Molly's mind NOW, an unfortunate critique of Daddy B, Derbyshire, and Versailles.

Study Questions: Topics discussed include how Volume the Second changed the game, how Jane Janes, Lizzy going too far in her critique of Daddy B, predictions for Brighton, the de-Lydia-ing of Kitty, and predictions for Pemberley and Volume the Third.

Funniest Quote: "Oh, well. It is just as he chooses. Nobody wants him to come. Though, I shall always say that he used my daughter extremely ill, and if I was her, I would not have put up with it. Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done."

Questions Moving Forward: Is Darcy going to be at Pemberley?

Who Wins the Chapters? Kitty. #SpinoffForKitty

Glossary of Terms and Phrases:

Profusion (n): abundance, or large quantity

Volubility (n): excessive talkativeness

Conjugal (adj.): having to do with marriage

Impunity (n): exemption from punishment of freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

Glossary of People, Places, and Things:

Princess Leia, Lizzo, Zachary Quinto, Colin Firth, Versailles, Twelfth Night, Love Actually, The Holiday, Fiddler on the Roof

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Questions Moving Forward: Is Darcy going to be at Pemberley?

Who Wins the Chapters? Kitty. #SpinoffForKitty

Glossary of Terms and Phrases:

Profusion (n): abundance, or large quantity

Volubility (n): excessive talkativeness

Conjugal (adj.): having to do with marriage

Impunity (n): exemption from punishment of freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

Glossary of People, Places, and Things:

Princess Leia, Lizzo, Zachary Quinto, Colin Firth, Versailles, Twelfth Night, Love Actually, The Holiday, Fiddler on the Roof

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Pride and Prejudice Vol. II Chapters 14-16

Chapter 14: The boys leave, and everyone's bored. Lady Catherine extends an invitation to Lizzy and Maria, and Lizzy reflects on Proposageddon. Highlights include: Lizzy eating ice cream and listening to Adele, Kitty's real name, how to properly pack a suitcase, and heavy-metal-Baby-de-Bourgh.

Chapter 15: Collins and Lizzy have awkward breakfast talk time, and Charlotte enters to save her. Lizzy and Maria depart to go meet Jane. Lizzy ruminates on how much she'll have to conceal from Jane. Highlights include: CHICKENS.

Chapter 16: Lydia's chapter. Lizzy, Jane, and Maria arrive at an inn where they meet Kydia. Kydia "treats" them to lunch, but they've spent all their money on. a bonnet for Lydia. The militia is leaving in two weeks, and Kydia and Mrs. Bennet want to follow them to Brighton. We find out that Miss King ditched Wickham. Lydia tears everyone apart in the car. Highlights include: Mary's love of lesbian poetry, vegan charcuterie, CHICKENS, "Wickham is a construct," 22 by Taylor Swift but about Jane, Jane Austen Drag Brunch, MARY, and Lydia with a K.

Study Questions: Topics discussed include marriage for love vs. marriage for money and how Charlotte and Collins play into that, Catherine and Anne de Bourgh, Tilda Swinton as a halfway point between Gwenyth Paltrow and Judi Dench, Lizzy as an unreliable narrator, Kitty as a kitty, Darcy's evaluation of the Bennet family, flirting in the Austen times, Fiddler on the Roof (as always), and how long the sisters have to get married.

Funniest quote: "Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book."

Questions moving forward: Will the squad come back to Netherfield? Will we see Wickham again? Will we got to Brighton? Will Lizzy go hiking with a mountain man?

Who wins the chapters? Lydia!

Glossary of Terms and Phrases:

Milliner (n): hatmaker.

Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Electric Boogaloo, Adele, Frozen, Feeling 22, Tilda Swinton, Fiddler on the Roof

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Pride and Prejudice Vol. III Chapter 1

Our first ever one-chapter episode!

Volume the Third, Chapter 1: Chekhov's Pemberley! Lizzy has the hots for a piece of LAND, and starts to have some regrets regarding her response to Darcy's proposal. We get the inside scoop on Darcy's personality from his servant. And then, a SURPRISE VISIT and an eventful walk in the woods! Highlights include: is Becca a murderer?, a selfie vs. a portrait, Darcy in Pottery Barn, where are the dogs?, Proposageddon vs. Proposalgeddon, Lizzy's CROOSH, the Bingleys still exist, flammable goo, and Darcy makes a good impression.

Study Questions: Topics discussed include the shift in tone in Volume the Third, what Pemberley symbolizes, what kind of house Wickham would be, Darcy's classism, Darcy's new demeanor, the human capacity for change, and character development.

Funniest Quote: "And of this place, thought she, I might have been the mistress? With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted. Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might've rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no, recollecting herself, that could never be. My uncle and aunt would have been lost to me. I should not have been allowed to invite them. This was a lucky recollection. It saved her from something like regret."

Questions Moving Forward: Is Caroline still thirsty? Will we come back tomorrow for the party? Georgie?

Who Wins the Chapter? Mrs. Reynolds!

Glossary of Terms and Phrases:

eminence (n): fame, respectability

crayons (n): pastels

trifling (adj): trivial, unimportant

vindication (n): the action of clearing someone of blame or suspicion

pecuniary (adj): relating to money

Glossary of People, Places, and Things:

Downton Abbey, Pottery Barn, Edward Cullen, MTV Cribs

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