Pride and Prejudice

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

 

Pride and Prejudice devotees: is this how you would picture Jane Bennet? Scholars suspect that a portrait by François Huet-Villiers—reproduced in this engraving by William Blake—inspired Jane Austen to write, “Mrs Bingley is exactly herself…there never was a greater likeness.” http://bit.ly/XGDcjO