Does Mr. Bingley Come With The Asking Price?

Also: An Elle-off, a wedding, and Evelyn Hugo.

Broads! I bring glad tidings. Netherfield Park is to be let at last. Or, to be technical about it, Edgcote House, the massive English manor that stood in for Netherfield Park in the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice, is for sale. For a mere forty-five million pounds! Per House and Garden:

For that, you get not only the superbly symmetrical Grade I-listed manor – a masterpiece of Georgian architecture designed by William Jones between 1748 and 1754 – but also a 1,700-acre park with woodland and farmland, the remains of a Roman villa, formal gardens landscaped by Capability Brown, a private racecourse, and a residential portfolio of 31 houses, cottages and flats.…

In celebrating the estate’s celluloid fame, however, it would be remiss to overlook its unique place in English history. Its origins go back to William the Conqueror, who gave it to his loyal advisor Geoffrey de Montbray after the Norman Conquest. In 1469, it was the site of the Battle of Edgcote, a notable event in the…