Pemberley

Pemberley is the name of the estate and country house owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.

In describing the estate, Austen uses uncharacteristically explicit symbolism to represent the geographical home of the man at the centre of the novel. On first visiting the estate, Elizabeth Bennett is charmed by beauty of the surrounding countryside, as indeed she is by Darcy himself. She later describes a stream on the grounds whose "...natural importance was swelled into greater...", soon mirrored by a description of Darcy as having "a natural importance" that is "swelled" by his demeanour.