Becoming Pemberley: Did Britain’s Largest Mansion Inspire Mr. Darcy’s House?
In Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, the dashing hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, lives comfortably in Pemberley, “a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills.” Austen (1775-1817) never revealed which—if any—of England’s stately homes...