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Chatsworth celebrations will be Austen-tatious
Derby Telegraph
|April 28, 2025
DERBYSHIRE is set to welcome a host of Jane Austen-themed events this summer to help celebrate the novelist's 250th birthday, and 20th anniversary of Chatsworth House being immortalised on screen as Pemberley for Joe Wright's film adaptation of Pride And Prejudice.
Events include a Pride And Prejudice Ball, Regency afternoon tea, embroidery workshops, live music, pop-up performances and storytelling.
Chatsworth is widely believed to have inspired Jane Austen’s depiction of Pemberley in Pride And Prejudice.
She visited the house in 1811 while staying nearby in Bakewell and revising the manuscript. Austen even referenced going to see a “great house” in a letter to her sister Cassandra dated May 24, 1811, with the description of Pemberley in the novel closely matching Chatsworth's setting.
This story is from the April 28, 2025 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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