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Podcast: Reading Jane Austen
Episode: Pride and Prejudice, Chapters 58 to 61
Description: In this episode, we read the final chapters of Pride and Prejudice. We talk about the dialogue in the final proposal scene, and more generally about proposals in Jane Austen; Mr Bennet’s response to the news, and also Mrs Bennet’s; what the final chapter, and James Austen-Leigh’s Memoir, tells us about what happens next to the characters; the passing reference to the “restoration of peace”; and how the closing sentence is far less memorable than the opening sentence. We discuss the character of Mr Bennet, then Ellen talks about some social changes that happened after the bo...