Louisa Elizabeth Grey

The magazine divides Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice into its original three volumes. Each cover features a reimagined version of the original bookplate, underlaid with an .ai-generated cover image. The visuals needed to be beautiful but also meet two key requirements:

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Open for Interpretation
The images invite readers to connect them directly to Pride and Prejudice. For Volume 3, we chose Louisa Elizabeth Grey, a relatively unknown fifteen-year-old and the daughter of Charles, the 2nd Earl Grey.

Historical Personalities
Each cover aligns with figures from the period whose lives resonate with Austen’s world. Louisa represents the youth of her day. While Louisa herself was never embroiled in scandal, Austen would have read many accounts of young women who were.

Here, Louisa is imagined at the same age as Lydia Bennet when she travels to Brighton. Just four years later, at nineteen, Louisa married John Lambton, Earl of Durham, who was twenty-four, a five-year age difference.

Follow the links below to learn more about Louisa’s life and perhaps reflect, as we do, on Lydia’s age when she was seduced by Wickham.