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Hot and Bothered

Live from Pemberley: Little Elegant Compliments (Chapters 13 + 14)

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Books, Feminism, Intersectionality, Arts, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Collins, the Bennets’ horrible cousin, has arrived at Longbourn in Chapters 13 and 14 of Pride and Prejudice. Vanessa and Lauren dig into Collins as a religious figure and the impact of his sermonizing on the Bennet daughters.


Dr. Sandra Macpherson joins us at the end of the episode to discuss the entail and British land law. Our next episode is on July 1st and we'll meet another exciting character - Mr. Wickham!


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In chapters 13 and 14, we meet Mr. Collins.

0:46.8

He is the cousin of the Bennets, who will inherit Longborn because he is a man, and the

0:52.0

Bennets didn't have the good sense to have a son.

0:55.8

The house is under what is called an entail, a concept that pisses off Mrs. Bennet, who

1:02.1

expresses her anger through willfully not understanding what it means.

1:08.1

Mr. Bennet informs us about Mr. Collins' appending arrival, by telling us that he's

1:13.5

known about it for a month.

1:16.8

He has not managed to mention this to his wife somehow, even though Collins is arriving

1:22.5

today, and Mrs. Bennet will be responsible for feeding him.

1:27.3

And Mr. Bennet tells us about Collins, by reading the letter that Collins sent.

1:32.2

Let me say this one more time, a month ago.

1:37.1

The dish is this.

1:39.2

Mr. Collins has recently lost his father, and even more recently, become a parish priest

1:45.2

on the estate of Lady Catherine de Burgh.

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