Pemberley
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Pemberley is the country estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy, the male protagonist in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. It is located in Derbyshire and believed by some to be based on Chatsworth House, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire — and the exterior scenes at Pemberley for Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, were in fact filmed at Chatsworth. However, Chatsworth was mentioned in the novel as one of the great houses Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle visited before Pemberley during their visit north, thus marking a distinction between Pemberley and it.
Lyme Park, near Stockport, was the setting for Pemberley for the television series of Pride and Prejudice (1995) starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, England, UK was the setting for Pemberley in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice from 1980 starting Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, adapted from the novel by Fay Weldon.
In describing the estate, Austen uses uncharacteristically explicit symbolism to represent the geographical home of the man at the centre of the novel. On first visiting the estate, Elizabeth Bennet is charmed by the beauty of the surrounding countryside, as indeed she is by Mr. Darcy himself. Elizabeth had already rejected Mr. Darcy's first proposal by the time she visits Pemberley — it is his letter and the housekeeper's talking about Darcy like her son and his genteel nature at Pemberley that marks a change in her opinion of Mr. Darcy. She later describes a stream on the grounds whose "...natural importance was swelled into greater...", soon mirrored by a description of Mr. Darcy as having "a natural importance" that is "swelled" by his demeanour.
Pemberley Press is the name of the publishing house that Bridget Jones works at in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's Diary, in homage to Pride and Prejudice.
