Sunday, 20 December 2015

A Mary Cassatt painting and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Here is a painting by Mary Cassatt called
"Two women seated by a woodland stream".

What a lovely, serene picture.

When I saw the painting, it made me think of the two elder Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

It made me picture Jane Bennet and Elizabeth Bennet taking a rest after a walk by a stream in a garden at or near Longbourn,  or perhaps in the parkland at Pemberley (after Elizabeth married Darcy)...


http://www.wikiart.org/en/mary-cassatt/two-seated-women-1869

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt

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