Fordyce’s Sermons Sermons to Young Women

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Fordyce’s Sermons Sermons to Young Women

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watercolor

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Common

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Pride and Prejudice

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1

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Shh. Mr. Collins is trying to read, Lydia. :) She needs to hear it most of all! Jane Austen's little joke lives on in this artwork. Mr Collins chooses Sermons to Young Women to read aloud to the Bennet sisters on the first evening that he spends with the family (I. 14). This is an important clue to Mr Collins’s character, since by the time Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, Fordyce’s views were outdated and restrictive. Lydia Bennet is particularly unimpressed by Mr Collins’s choice of reading material: ‘Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him …’.