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Cranes were innovations used in the construction of Gothic cathedrals, shown in this illustration.
The master builder directs masons on a 14th-century decorative relief tile.
Mr. Bennet is a country gentleman who enjoys a comfortable life. Having married his wife for her youth and beauty, he has long grown tired of her whims and neglects family affairs to pursue his own interests, particularly his books. Mr. Bennet has a laissez-faire attitude toward their daughters’ education and does not share Mrs. Bennet’s obsession with securing suitable husbands for their girls. Worst of all, he ignores the silly flirtations of the two youngest girls, shown here with him in an A. Willis Mills's illustration, which nearly ruins the family’s reputation.
William Collins is Mr. Bennet’s cousin and heir to Longbourn, the entailed Bennet estate. Pedantic and pompous, he serves as an Anglican clergyman on the estate of his patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy’s aunt. Mr. Collins first asks Elizabeth to marry him, and she flatly rejects him. Her friend Charlotte Lucas accepts Mr. Collins’s proposal in A. Wallis Mills's illustration, but she is clear-eyed that this match is for security and stability, not for love.
Mr. Darcy is a gentleman and heir to a great fortune. He reluctantly attends dances and gatherings with his friend Mr. Bingley, appearing proud and aloof. But he cannot help falling in love with Elizabeth Bennet, daughter of a relatively poor gentleman. Elizabeth rejects Darcy’s first marriage proposal indignantly, shown in this 1908 illustration by A. Wallis Mills, but grows to love him, realizing that Darcy’s reserve reflects his fine character, not snobbery or pride. The two are well-matched and marry for love.
A group of upper-class girls receives a singing lesson. In the background, one girl paints while another embroiders in this 19th-century engraving.
A ball at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, with ladies and gentlemen in their finest attire is shown in an 1827 color engraving by John Nash.
A detail from “Anne Boleyn in the Tower,” an 1835 painting by Edouard Cibot.
The Princes in the Tower are depicted in an 1878 painting by Sir John Everett Millais.
Inmates of the Tower left behind testaments on the walls of their cells. One inscribed in the Bell Tower records interrogation under torture. It is attributed to Thomas Miagh, an Irish rebel who was imprisoned in the Tower in 1581.