User:FLMermaid

User: FLMermaid, I am trying to figure out why the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice has a different beginning than the Hollywood version.

As I remember the BBCor A&E version begins with a man passing away, that had married again after his first wife died. A lady with several young women. They were unable to claim the family home, as women couldn't inherit as the law went. So the oldest son of the deceased man, claimed the house. And the 2nd wife was sent to live in the country with she and her daughters facing possibly poverty. As the new owner kicked them out. Cruel rules of inheritance. The Hollywood version didn't go this way at all. Please tell me if I'm thinking of a different story by Jane Austin.

Thank you, FLMermaid