Comments on: The fictional life of Lyme Park

By: Emile de Bruijn

Emile de Bruijn — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:06:06 +0000

Yes and I like that herd of deer going for a swim in the lake. There are still deer there now.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:56:08 +0000

Love that north view from 1700. Thank you.

By: Emile de Bruijn

Emile de Bruijn — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:06:04 +0000

Stephen, than you very much. I knew we could rely on you Austenites to supply the answer

By: Stephen Bishop

Stephen Bishop — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:36:05 +0000

Pemberley in the 1980 version of P&P was Renishaw Hall. The Republic of Pemberley site has a page dealing with locations for various JA films

By: Emile de Bruijn

Emile de Bruijn — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:31:18 +0000

Gaye, you were probably one of those precocious toddlers discussing the art-historical sources of the kindergarten wallpaper

Toby, yes costume dramas can of course be disconcerting for connoisseurs like you

I heard somewhere that directors like using real houses as it makes the continuity (the exiting from one room and entering another without visual inconsistencies) easier. But then as you say they sometimes use rooms in entirely different houses.

However, in the film Gosford Park Robert Altman had the entire basement service area created on set, and I thought that looked pretty convincing.

K Westerne, I have no idea about the ‘Pemberley’ in the 1980 version (I haven’t seen an image of it), but you could check out and post this question at The Republic of Pemberley (http://www.pemberley.com/) or Austenonly (http://austenonly.com/), which are run by dedicated Jane Austenites who are bound to know the answer.

By: K Westerne

K Westerne — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:36 +0000

This is such a lovely estate. However, for those fans of the 1980 Pride and Prejudice mini-series, could someon please tell me the name of the estate and house used for that “Pemberley”?

By: Toby Worthington

Toby Worthington — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:18:42 +0000

Those associational links to country houses can be fairly disconcerting~
specially when you see a familiar house on the screen. There is that Aha!
moment upon recognising a well-loved interior, followed by total bewilderment as our heroine strides from the gallery at Osterly Park to the hall at West Wycombe in two minutes flat.

Worse yet (to me at any rate) is the confusion inspired by seeing the double
cube room at Wilton used as stand in for Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace.The ‘suspension of disbelief’ is challenged~to say the least of it! Still, the use of actual rooms and real houses supplies a tone of authority that a set designer can seldom achieve.

By: littleaugury

littleaugury — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:48:39 +0000

No never, and I recognized that facade as “darcy’s” immediately. after seeing Pride and Prejudice at least- a dozen times how could I miss it. one of THE stellar scenes from the series. gaye