Jane Austen gives us very little sense of the larger society in which she lives. But the TV version is different. We get glimpses of old men in ill-fitting wigs, and drunken servants, and Darcy working out in the gym - erm, I mean- practising with his fencing master.

It's a society about to end. The industrial revolution is already under way and very soon the dark satanic mills will be casting their shadows over Pemberley.

And Darcy, with his earnestness, his repression, his moral seriousness, is already a proto-Victorian.