Pemberley is the fictional country estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy, the male protagonist in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. It is located near the fictional town of Lambton, and believed by some to be based on Chatsworth House, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
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, the praise of his housekeeper, and his own courteous behaviour at Pemberley that bring about a change in her opinion of Mr. Darcy.
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Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, England, UK was the setting for Pemberley in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice from 1980 starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, adapted from the novel by Fay Weldon.
Lyme Park, near Stockport, was the setting for Pemberley for the television series of Pride and Prejudice (1995) starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
Chatsworth House, the original inspiration for Pemberley, was used for the exterior scenes for Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. 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.
Harewood House, near Leeds in West Yorkshire, was the setting for Pemberley in the ITV fantasy series Lost in Austen. This series was not a direct adaptation of the novel, but the novel provided the majority of the plots, characters and inspiration.
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.
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