Town,' but one which is sufficiently important to have once had a Longbourn is called 'Meryton' (a clearly fictitious name:Īusten might just as well have called it 'Toytown' and hadĭone with it, and in fact there is no such place name in the whole ofĮngland or Wales (2)), and that Meryton is 'a small market We are also told (Chapter 5) that the nearest town to Longbourn actually existed at all, then it is undoubtedly in Prejudice (Chapter 3) we are told that the village of Longbourn is in Which she herself was relatively unacquainted. The setting of Longbourn, even if this might have been a place with Quite likely that she did indeed have some actual location in mind for Passing to allow Pride and Prejudice to progress fifteen months from theĪutumn of one year to the Christmas of the next), and it therefore seems The chronology of her novels, with exactly the right number of weeks Particular indeed about many other aspects of her work (for example, in Nevertheless, it is well known that Austen was very

Pride and Prejudice is a work of fiction, of course, and the Bennetįamily no more actually lived at Longbourn than Sherlock Holmes lived atĢ21b Baker Street. Thereby provides us with one of the major clues that we have to the Austen also tells usĮxactly how far Gracechurch Street is from the village of Longbourn, and They live in the City, in Gracechurch Street. ForĮxample, she not only tells us that the Gardiner family, theīennets' cousins, live in the City of London, but exactly where However, we might note that Austen is not always so scrupulous. Pride and Prejudice to 'the town of-in Hertfordshire'). Longbourn's precise location a secret (all those coy references in Of consideration for any person who might have been living near anyĪctual place that she named, Austen herself is careful to keep 'Longbourn,' the residence of the Bennet family, in JaneĪusten's Pride and Prejudice? I think it probably is. IS IT POSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY the exact location of the village of APA style: The probable location of 'Longbourn' in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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