So what happened to Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet after they married?

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I watched this movie recently and it is something I have always wondered since I first read it as a teenager.

There's an awful book called "Pemberley" which tells you (according to Emma Tennant anyway).

Don't bother. Really.

Really is it that bad? Can you summarise? I have a feeling that they wouldn't get along?

It is awful I read it a few years ago ,I really wouldn't bother,very uinbelievable

I can't really remember much about it (wiped from memory) but iirc there was an illegitimate daughter (nicked from Jayne Eyre?), or a suspected one, a night in a gypsy caravan. That's all that's stayed with me.

In essence - married life hits rocks. Will they split? Drama! Realise they love each other after all.

Dont know Im afraid, but thought Id let you know that there is a new version out called Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.... sounds interesting!

The Pemberley sequel to Pride and Prejudice is bad but the next sequel by Emma Tennant was even worse! An Unequal marriage where Darcy's son wants to join the French army!?!?!?!

She does base it all on various misunderstandings between Lizzy and Darcy in both of them.

I just went onto Amazon to find the author of another sequel I remembered and there are loads of them. From the reviews, I'd say some are more true to the style of Austen than others.

I feel obliged to point out that P&P was not in fact about a real couple .

The Zombie book got old really quickly.

Do not...I repeat DO NOT...did I say, do not?...that's right...do not read Pemberley. It is the biggest pile of steaming shite ever published. I think books are sacred - but I burned this one.

Zombies are good...everything else is totally reprehensible and publishers Should Know Better. Grrrrr.

First 3 years were great. Honeymoon period. Then they had a few babies. Then life began to get a bit humdrum as it can do. That's when they started swinging. Amazing how many people were into it in the Georgian aristocracy. And then there was the dogging in the coach outside the Pemberley Arms. Now that was probably a mistake considering the court case for Outraging Public Morals.

FFS! They had a nice boring married life, punctuated by embarrassing episodes with Lizzie's mother.
When her mother got really old, she came and lived with them, and was embarrassing, but very good with the grandchildren.

They both lived to a ripe old age, and had loads of children, one of whom became a Cambridge don, one married an earl, and wrote novels under a pen name, and one emigrated to South Africa.

I seem to remember that there was an "Emma" sequel as well, and made out that Emma was sexually repressed, remained a virgin and frustrated Knightley until she (Emma) had a lesbian affair that released her.

Was that Emma Tennant, too? If so, I was not impressed with plotting. Jane Austen's novels are all about operating within very narrow parameters (sorry if that sounds too Trekkie), so the "release" and overt lesbianism were outrageous. Apart from the idea that lesbianism is just a sublimation of heterosexual desire.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies drove me mad, it was so crap. There wasn't even a decent allegory for the plague of zombies - no slavery, no women's subservience, nothing! AAAARGH! Only entertaining thing was when Mr Darcy told Elizabeth his balls were at her disposal. That was the only enteratining thing. Really.

There's a decent sequel called something like Mr Darcy's daughters, in which Elizabeth and Darcy's daughters do a London season and get into scrapes, some of which threaten serious reputational consequences, so working within boundaries, as mentioned above.

Yes Emma as a lesbian = equally ridiculous. Like that Mansfield Park film, which implies a hint of seduction from Mary Crawford towards Fanny. Gah.

Yes - I sniggered at Mr D's balls too. But I loved the whole Charlotte Lucas thing as well.

JaneiteIsAWimpyTeacher, yes, the zombie "thing" did preserve, or rework, a bit of the pathos of Charlotte Lucas's position. However, it seems rather cheap to profit from Charlotte's misfortune; she is a character I do feel sorry for. The Keira Knightley film does highlight her plight as well, which was very humanitarian, though rather heavy handed....

I totally agree re: Charlotte, WingedVictory.

However, I still think JA herself would have been thrilled by the zombies, however cheap the idea may be!

What, that the zombies had a go at some of the more annoying characters? I wish Lydia had been munched.

The Bar Sinister is pretty funny, P&P with naughty bits basically!

How was Prague Janeite?

the usual poor bastards

he screwed around, as all poncey twats like him do, gave her syphillis and they both died screaming.

Oh it was LOVELY. Thank you. Will try and post a couple of pics on my profile. Hang on...

How are YOU?

Pics on profile now...

I'm fine thanks. I can't see a profile for you.