History Literature / DeathComesToPemberley

* CuffsOffRubWrists: Wickham massages his wrists after his fetters are removed in the courtroom.

* CuffsOfRubWrists: Wickham massages his wrists after his fetters are removed in the courtroom.

Well, it isn't really her fault, but she heard gunshot in the woods where her husband and his friend were wandering and she is understandably worried. A rescue expedition organized by Mr. Darcy reassures everyone on the state of her husband. He was simply found drunk, cradling his friend's corpse...

* DarkerAndEdgier: The BBC film is quite a bit more violent and melodramatic than the original novel. It makes Darcy's great-grandfather into a wastrel who squandered his money, when in the novel he was simply an antisocial recluse. It includes

* DrivenToSuicide:

* GhostStory: The local ghost story around Pemberley is about a woman known as Mrs. Reilly, who hanged herself when her young son was executed.

* TheHedonist: Darcy's great-grandfather, who wasted most of the family's money and eventually committed suicide. It took two generations until all his debts were repaid and the family was financially stable.

* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Darcys ''were'' this thanks to Fitzwilliam's hedonistic great-grandfather; his father was still trying to pay off debts by the time Darcy was born.

* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Mrs. Young is run over by a carriage in the street.]]

* MortalWoundReveal: A variation. [[spoiler:Denny]] is already dead but nobody knows ''how'' he died until his body is turned over, revealing his head was partially smashed in.

''Death Comes To Pemberley'' is a thriller written by Creator/PDJames. It is also a non-official sequel to ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', which treats themes such as [[ValuesDissonance justice in the 19th century]] and [[ValuesDissonance misogyny]] on a rather interesting way.

''Death Comes To Pemberley'' is a thriller written by Phyllis Dorothy James. It is also a non-official sequel to ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', which treats themes such as [[ValuesDissonance justice in the 19th century]] and [[ValuesDissonance misogyny]] on a rather interesting way.

* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted. Lizzie is told she may be too late even if she does get through the dangers of traveling to Derby alive at night, but thanks to a guide she defies all odds and delivers a written confession that the now-deceased Will killed Captain Denny accidentally, having mistaken him for Louise's rapist, on time for the very judge who had earlier condemned George to the gallows to now order that George be taken down at the last second. Immediately after the rope is removed from his neck, and as he's taken down from the gallows, George watches the other condemned men suffer the very fate from which he had just been spared.]]

* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:Denny's]] head was struck multiple times by [[spoiler:Will.]]

* ComesGreatResponsibility: This is a central tenet of being a Darcy according to Fitzwilliam. His great-grandfather was a wastrel who plunged the family into debt and this greatly colors how Fitzwilliam sees Georgiana's relationship with Henry Alveston. When Wickham is put on trial for murder, Fitzwilliam tries to push Georgiana towards Colonel Fitzwilliam in hopes of securing a more financially stable future for her in case Georgiana's reputation is ruined by Darcy's in-law connection with Wickham.

* DarkerAndEdgier

* AndStarring: In the TV version: "With [[OneSceneWonder Penelope Keith]] as Lady Catherine de Bourgh"

* MortalWoundReveal: A variation. [[spoiler:Denny]] is already dead but nobody knows how he died until his body is turned over, revealing his head was partially smashed in.

* IllGirl: Will Bidwell, the son of Pemberley's coachman, is a male example. [[spoiler:He passes away toward the end of the novel.]]

* BabiesEverAfter: Lizzie and Darcy have two sons, making this a retroactive example from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.
* BettyAndVeronica: Georgiana had one of these triangles with Colonel Fitzwilliam (older, known since long ago, and conservative) and [[spoiler: Henry Alveston]] (young, known since a short time ago, much more progressive) .

* ComesGreatResponsibility: This is a central tenant of being a Darcy according to Fitzwilliam. His great-grandfather was a wastrel who plunged the family into debt and this greatly colors how Fitzwilliam sees Georgiana's relationship with Henry Alveston. When Wickham is put on trial for murder, Fitzwilliam tries to push Georgiana towards Colonel Fitzwilliam in hopes of securing a more financially stable future for her in case Georgiana's reputation is ruined by Darcy's in-law connection with Wickham.

* BabiesEverAfter: Lizzie and Darcy have a son, making this a retroactive example from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: This is a central tenant of being a Darcy according to Fitzwilliam. His great-grandfather was a wastrel who plunged the family into debt and this greatly colors how Fitzwilliam sees Georgiana’s relationship with Henry Alveston. When Wickham is put on trial for murder, Fitzwilliam tries to push Georgiana towards Colonel Fitzwilliam in hopes of securing a more financially stable future for her in case Georgiana's reputation is ruined by Darcy's in-law connection with Wickham.

* GoryDiscretionShot: In Darcy’s flashback to Thomas Reilly’s execution, the death is marked by the rope falling as Reilly is hanged.

* IllGirl: Will Bidwell, the son of Pemberley’s coachman, is a male example. [[spoiler:He passes away toward the end of the novel.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: George Wickham, Lydia and, Colonel Fitzwilliam are presented as this.

* TheMentor: Mr. Bidwell has been training Wilkinson to be the Darcy’s coachman since his son Will won’t survive to succeed him.

* PredecessorVillain: Darcy’s great-grandfather’s hedonistic ways cast a long shadow over how the Darcy family runs things.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: This is a central tenant of being a Darcy according to Fitzwilliam. His great-grandfather was a wastrel who plunged the family into debt and this greatly colors how Fitzwilliam sees Georgiana’s relationship with Henry Alveston. When Wickham is put on trial for murder, Fitzwilliam tries to push Georgiana towards Colonel Fitzwilliam in hopes of securing a more financially stable future.

* HangingJudge: Selwyn Hardcastle's father. Who else would sentence a young boy to hang?

* ShipperOnDeck: Elizabeth is this for Georgiana/Henry.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: The entire plot of the book could have been avoided if [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Wickham]] had stayed faithful to Lydia.]]

Adapted into a 2013 BBC television film starring [[TheAmericans Matthew Rhys]] as Darcy and Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth.

* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler: Colonel Fitzwilliam turns out to have one of these.]]