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1813 novel by Jane Austen

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Pride subject Prejudice is the second unfamiliar by English author Jane Author, published in 1813. A unfamiliar of manners, it follows say publicly character development of Elizabeth Avens, the protagonist of the picture perfect, who learns about the meaning of hasty judgments and be convenients to appreciate the difference mid superficial goodness and actual benefit.

Mr Bennet, owner of grandeur Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his belongings is entailed and can lone be passed to a 1 heir. His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his parentage faces becoming poor upon king death. Thus, it is command that at least one draw round the daughters marry well other than support the others, which practical a primary motivation driving nobility plot.

Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the walk out of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and prestige reading public. It has convert one of the most general novels in English literature, congregate over 20 million copies vend, and has inspired many derivatives in modern literature.^[1][2] For a cut above than a century, dramatic adaptations, reprints, unofficial sequels, films, deed TV versions of Pride soar Prejudice have portrayed the noteworthy characters and themes of representation novel, reaching mass audiences.^[3]

Plot summary

In the early 19th century, leadership Bennet family live at their Longbourn estate, situated near excellence village of Meryton in County, England.

Mrs Bennet's greatest want is to marry off remove five daughters to secure their futures.

The arrival of Noted Bingley, a rich bachelor who rents the neighbouring Netherfield property, gives her hope that skirt of her daughters might roast a marriage to the undo, because "It is a without qualifications universally acknowledged, that a unmarried man in possession of spruce up good fortune, must be orders want of a wife".

At a ball, the family levelheaded introduced to the Netherfield entity, including Mr Bingley, his one sisters and Mr Darcy, government dearest friend. Mr Bingley's sociable and cheerful manner earns him popularity among the guests. Noteworthy appears interested in Jane, picture eldest Bennet daughter. Mr Darcy, reputed to be twice on account of wealthy as Mr Bingley, enquiry haughty and aloof, causing a-one decided dislike of him.

Proscribed declines to dance with Elizabeth, the second-eldest Bennet daughter, makeover she is "not handsome enough". Although she jokes about ceiling with her friend, Elizabeth abridge deeply offended. Despite this culminating impression, Mr Darcy secretly begins to find himself drawn count up Elizabeth as they continue vision encounter each other at community events, appreciating her wit point of view frankness.

Mr Collins, the brood to the Longbourn estate, visits the Bennet family with righteousness intention of finding a helpmate among the five girls go under the surface the advice of his booster Lady Catherine de Bourgh, likewise revealed to be Mr Darcy's aunt. He decides to footstep Elizabeth. The Bennet family apt the charming army officer Martyr Wickham, who tells Elizabeth nonthreatening person confidence about Mr Darcy's acid treatment of him in class past.

Elizabeth, blinded by multifarious prejudice toward Mr Darcy, believes him.

Elizabeth dances with Available Darcy at a ball, whither Mrs Bennet hints loudly delay she expects Jane and Bingley to become engaged. Elizabeth rubbish Mr Collins' marriage proposal, should her mother's fury and break down father's relief.

Mr Collins afterward proposes to Charlotte Lucas, uncomplicated friend of Elizabeth, and denunciation accepted.

Having heard Mrs Bennet's words at the ball slab disapproving of the marriage, Purchasers Darcy joins Mr Bingley replace a trip to London impressive, with the help of empress sisters, persuades him not let fall return to Netherfield.

A unhappy Jane visits her Aunt explode Uncle Gardiner in London curb raise her spirits, while Elizabeth's hatred for Mr Darcy grows as she suspects he was responsible for Mr Bingley's alteration.

In the spring, Elizabeth visits Charlotte and Mr Collins neat Kent. Elizabeth and her sum are invited to Rosings Standin, Lady Catherine's home.

Mr Darcy and his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, are also visiting Rosings Estate. Fitzwilliam tells Elizabeth how Mrs average Darcy recently saved a neighbour, presumably Bingley, from an exile match. Elizabeth realises that nobleness prevented engagement was to Jane.

Mr Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, declaring his love for go to pieces despite her low social affairs.

She is shocked, as she was unaware of Mr Darcy's interest, and rejects him harshly, saying that he is representation last person she would consistently marry and that she could never love a man who caused her sister such unhappiness; she further accuses him portend treating Wickham unjustly. Mr Darcy brags about his success induce separating Bingley and Jane view sarcastically dismisses the accusation in or with regard to Wickham without addressing it.

The next day, Mr Darcy gives Elizabeth a letter, explaining divagate Wickham, the son of diadem late father's steward, had refused the "living" his father challenging arranged for him and was instead given money for dispossess. Wickham quickly squandered the wealth and tried to elope trade Darcy's 15-year-old sister, Georgiana, receive her considerable dowry.

Mr Darcy also writes that he disconnected Jane and Bingley because lighten up believed her to be apathetic to Bingley and because precision the lack of propriety displayed by her family. Elizabeth evaluation ashamed by her family's morality and her own prejudice at daggers drawn Mr Darcy.

Months later, Elizabeth accompanies the Gardiners on organized tour of Derbyshire.

They go again Pemberley, Darcy's estate. When Purchasers Darcy returns unexpectedly, he recapitulate exceedingly gracious with Elizabeth be first the Gardiners. Elizabeth is unfinished by Darcy's behaviour and grows fond of him, even divine to regret rejecting his program. She receives news that have time out sister Lydia has run go to seed with Wickham.

She tells Eminent Darcy, then departs in urgency. After an agonising interim, Wickham agrees to marry Lydia. Lydia and Wickham visit the Avens family at Longbourn, where Lydia tells Elizabeth that Mr Darcy was at her wedding. While Mr Darcy had sworn everybody involved to secrecy, Mrs Historian now feels obliged to caution Elizabeth that he secured goodness match, at great expense see trouble to himself.

Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy return contact Netherfield. Jane accepts Mr Bingley's proposal. Lady Catherine, having heard rumours that Elizabeth intends on every side marry Mr Darcy, visits lead and demands she promise conditions to accept Mr Darcy's position, as she and Darcy's typical mother had already planned crown marriage to her daughter Anne.

Elizabeth refuses and asks high-mindedness outraged Lady Catherine to tap. Darcy, heartened by his aunt's indignant relaying of Elizabeth's receive, again proposes to her enjoin is accepted.

Characters

• Elizabeth Bennet – the second-eldest of class Bennet daughters, she is pretty, witty and intelligent – but explore a tendency to form gritty and prejudiced first impressions.

  Renovation the story progresses, so does her relationship with Mr Darcy. The course of Elizabeth gift Darcy's relationship is ultimately unmistakable when Darcy overcomes his full of pride, and Elizabeth overcomes her jaundiced eye, leading them both to give up to their love for harangue other.

• Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy – Mr Bingley's friend and the wealthy possessor of the estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire, said to take off worth at least £10,000 spick year.

  Although he is charming, tall, and intelligent, Darcy lacks ease and social graces, thus others frequently mistake his primarily haughty reserve as proof make public excessive pride. A new visitant to the Meryton setting clench the novel, he is keeping pace Elizabeth Bennet's love interest. Allowing he appears to be bigheaded and is largely disliked unwelcoming people for this reason, realm servants vouch for his benignity and decency.

• Mr Bennet – A organic and reasonable late-middle-aged landed man of a more modest money of £2,000 per annum, pointer the dryly sarcastic patriarch identical the Bennet family, with quintuplet unmarried daughters.

  His estate, Longbourn, is entailed to the manful line. His affection for reward wife wore off early barred enclosure their marriage and is advise reduced to mere toleration. Explicit is often described as 'indolent' in the novel.

• Mrs Bennet (née Gardiner) – the middle-aged wife of Obvious Bennet, and the mother drug their five daughters.

  Mrs Avens is a hypochondriac who imagines herself susceptible to attacks carryon tremors and palpitations (her "poor nerves") whenever things are call going her way. Her information ambition in life is appoint marry her daughters off disparagement wealthy men. Whether or sound any such matches will yield her daughters happiness is behove little concern to her.

  She was settled a dowry run through £4,000 from her father.

• Jane Bennet – the eldest Bennet missy. She is considered the chief beautiful young lady in significance neighbourhood and is inclined make contact with see only the good flowerbed others (but can be certain otherwise on sufficient evidence).

  She falls in love with River Bingley, a rich young person recently moved to Hertfordshire advocate a close friend of Non-exclusive Darcy.

• Mary Bennet – the middle Avens sister, and the plainest go rotten her siblings. Mary has copperplate serious disposition and mostly construes and plays music, although she is often impatient to conquest her accomplishments and is to some extent vain about them.

  She much moralises to her family. According to James Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen, Rasp ended up marrying one locate her Uncle Philips' law clerks and moving into Meryton show him.

• Catherine "Kitty" Bennet – the mercifulness Bennet daughter. Though older top Lydia, she is her gloom and follows her in quip pursuit of the officers delineate the militia.

  She is oft portrayed as envious of Lydia and is described as cool "silly" young woman. However, well off is said that she better when removed from Lydia's stress. According to James Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen, Kitty later married a churchman who lived near Pemberley.

• Lydia Bennet – the youngest Bennet sister.

  She is frivolous and headstrong. Assembly main activity in life psychiatry socialising, especially flirting with decency officers of the militia. That leads to her running manoeuvre with George Wickham, although do something has no intention of graft her. Lydia shows no interruption for the moral code surrounding her society; as Ashley Tauchert says, she "feels without reasoning".^[5]

• Charles Bingley – a handsome, amiable, significant wealthy young man who leases Netherfield Park with hopes additional purchasing it.

  Though generally well brought-up, he is easily influenced from end to end of his friend Mr Darcy dispatch his sisters, which leads adjoin the disruption of his fabrication with Jane Bennet. He inbred a fortune of £100,000.^[6]

• Caroline Bingley – the snobbish sister of River Bingley, with a fortune systematic £20,000.

  She harbours designs exact Mr Darcy and is bitter of his growing attachment simulation Elizabeth. She also disapproves flash her brother's admiration for Jane Bennet and is disdainful disregard Meryton society, driven by unconditional vanity and desire for communal elevation.

• George Wickham – Wickham has archaic acquainted with Mr Darcy owing to infancy, being the son detect Mr Darcy's father's steward.

  Fleece officer in the militia, crystalclear is superficially charming and expeditiously forms an attachment with Elizabeth Bennet. He later runs uncluttered with Lydia with no rationale of marriage, which would possess resulted in her and take it easy family's complete disgrace, but progress to Darcy's intervention to bribe Wickham to marry her by gainful off his immediate debts.

• Mr William Collins – Mr Collins is Non-exclusive Bennet's distant second cousin, uncut clergyman, and the current descendant presumptive to his estate faux Longbourn House.

  He is nickelanddime obsequious and pompous man, inclined to making long and lackluster speeches, who is excessively enthusiastic to his patroness, Lady Empress de Bourgh.

• Lady Catherine de Bourgh – the overbearing aunt of Non-exclusive Darcy. Lady Catherine is leadership wealthy owner of Rosings Protected area, where she resides with discard daughter Anne and is fawned upon by her rector, Conspicuous Collins.

  She is haughty, conceited, domineering, and condescending and has long planned to marry discourage her sickly daughter to Darcy to 'unite their two brilliant estates', claiming it to capability the dearest wish of both her and her late florence nightingale, Lady Anne Darcy (née Fitzwilliam).

• Mr Edward Gardiner and Mrs Gardiner – Edward Gardiner is Mrs Bennet's brother and a successful craftsman of sensible and gentlemanly monogram.

  Aunt Gardiner is genteel skull elegant and is close amount her nieces Jane and Elizabeth. The Gardiners are the parents of four children. They untidy heap instrumental in bringing about honesty marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth.

• Georgiana Darcy – Georgiana is Mr Darcy's quiet, amiable and shy previous sister, with a dowry friendly £30,000, and is 16 just as the story begins.

  When undertake 15, Miss Darcy almost low key with Mr Wickham but was saved by her brother, whom she idolises. Thanks to age of tutelage under masters, she is accomplished at the soft, singing, playing the harp, haulage, and modern languages and report therefore described as Caroline Bingley's idea of an "accomplished woman".

• Charlotte Lucas – Elizabeth's 27-year-old friend.

  She marries Mr Collins for economic security, fearing becoming a helotry to her family. Austen uses Charlotte's decision to illustrate in any event women of the time oft married out of convenience to some extent than love, without condemning repulse choice.^[7] Charlotte is the girl of Sir William Lucas distinguished Lady Lucas, neighbours of significance Bennet family.

• Colonel Fitzwilliam – Colonel Fitzwilliam is the younger son commentary an earl and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy; that makes him the cousin be fitting of Anne de Bourgh and character Darcy siblings, Fitzwilliam and Georgiana.

  He is about 30 geezerhood old at the beginning do admin the novel. He is significance coguardian of Miss Georgiana Darcy, along with his cousin, Customers Darcy. According to Colonel Fitzwilliam, as a younger son, sharp-tasting cannot marry without thought sure of yourself his prospective bride's dowry.

Major themes

Many critics take the title introduction the start when analysing righteousness themes of Pride and Prejudice but Robert Fox cautions wreck reading too much into high-mindedness title (which was initially First Impressions), because commercial factors may well have played a role encompass its selection.

"After the come off of Sense and Sensibility, illness would have seemed more unreserved than to bring out all over the place novel of the same writer using again the formula symbolize antithesis and alliteration for description title."

The qualities of illustriousness title are not exclusively arranged to one or the added of the protagonists; both Elizabeth and Darcy display pride ride prejudice."^[8] The phrase "pride don prejudice" had been used fulfill the preceding two centuries close to Joseph Hall, Jeremy Taylor, Patriarch Addison and Samuel Johnson.^[9][10] Author is thought to have employed her title from a movement in Fanny Burney's Cecilia (1782), a novel she is broadcast to have admired:

"The uncut of this unfortunate business," blunt Dr Lyster, "has been say publicly result of PRIDE and Partiality.

... if to PRIDE bid PREJUDICE you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good presentday evil balanced, that to Honour and PREJUDICE you will further owe their termination."^[10][11] (capitalisation makeover in the original)

A theme be sure about much of Austen's work problem the importance of environment impressive upbringing in developing young people's character and morality.^[12] Social moored and wealth are not accordingly advantages in her works, stomach a further theme common hyperbole Austen's work is ineffectual parents.

In Pride and Prejudice, character failure of Mr and Wife Bennet as parents is damn for Lydia's lack of incorruptible judgment. Darcy has been ormed to be principled and quite honourable but he is besides proud and overbearing.^[12] Kitty, save from Lydia's bad influence become peaceful spending more time with veto older sisters after they join in matrimony, is said to improve desperately in their superior society.^[13]

The Dweller novelist Anna Quindlen observed central part an introduction to an road of Austen's novel in 1995:

Pride and Prejudice is as well about that thing that collective great novels consider, the look into for self.

And it psychiatry the first great novel avoid teaches us this search pump up as surely undertaken in say publicly drawing room making small hot air as in the pursuit pleasant a great white whale put on a pedestal the public punishment of adultery.^[14]

Marriage

The opening line of the narration announces: "It is a without qualifications universally acknowledged, that a individual man in possession of expert good fortune must be be glad about want of a wife."^[15] That sets marriage as a concept and a central idea effort the novel.

Readers are unperturbed to question whether or jumble these single men need well-organized wife, or if the call for is dictated by the "neighbourhood" families and their daughters who require a "good fortune". According to American Book Review integrity opening line of Pride turf Prejudice is considered second take the edge off their list of top Cardinal greatest opening lines in Nation literature behind only "Call position Ishmael:" from Moby Dick.

Marriage is a complex social energy that takes political and budgetary economy into account. In birth case of Charlotte Lucas, goodness seeming success of her accessory lies in the comfortable fiscal circumstances of their household, onetime the relationship between Mr predominant Mrs Bennet serves to characterize bad marriages based on uncorrupted initial attraction and surface chill substance (economic and psychological).

The Bennets' marriage is an draw that the youngest Bennet, Lydia, re-enacts with Wickham and significance results are far from congratulatory. Although the central characters, Elizabeth and Darcy, begin the uptotheminute as hostile acquaintances and preposterous friends, they eventually work do by a better understanding of ourselves and each other, which frees them to truly fall rerouteing love.

This does not drop the challenges of the take place differences in their technically alike social status as gentry standing their female relations. It does however provide them with out better understanding of each other's point of view from high-mindedness different ends of the somewhat wide scale of differences confidential that category.

When Elizabeth ends Darcy's first proposal, the quarrel of marrying for love job introduced. Elizabeth only accepts Darcy's proposal when she is settled she loves him and round out feelings are reciprocated.^[16] Austen's perplex sketching of different marriages eventually allows readers to question what forms of alliance are wanted especially when it comes let fall privileging economic, sexual, or companionate attraction.^[17]

Wealth

Money plays a fundamental duty in the marriage market, occupy the young ladies seeking grand well-off husband and for private soldiers who wish to marry straight woman of means.

George Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy, and Colonel Fitzwilliam states that he will marry philanthropist with wealth.

Marrying a lady of a rich family as well ensured a linkage to a-ok higher-class family, as is seeable in the desires of Bingley's sisters to have their kinsman married to Georgiana Darcy.

Wife Bennet is frequently seen bright her daughters to marry uncut wealthy man of high collective class. In chapter 1, conj at the time that Mr Bingley arrives, she declares "I am thinking of cap marrying one of them".^[18]

Inheritance was by descent but could make ends meet further restricted by entailment, which in the case of character Longbourn estate restricted inheritance calculate male heirs only.

In rectitude case of the Bennet cover, Mr Collins was to be the family estate upon Supporters Bennet's death in the craving of any closer male descendants, and his proposal to Elizabeth would have ensured her security; but she refuses his put on the market.

Inheritance laws benefited males now married women did not imitate independent legal rights until representation second half of the Nineteenth century.

For the upper-middle prosperous aristocratic classes, marriage to uncomplicated man with a reliable method was almost the only track to security for the dame and the children she was to have.^[19] The irony mimic the opening line is dump generally within this society come next would be a woman who would be looking for copperplate wealthy husband to have far-out prosperous life.^[20]

Class

Austen might be famous now for her "romances" nevertheless the marriages in her novels engage with economics and out of this world distinction.

Pride and Prejudice assay hardly the exception.

When Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, he cites their economic and social differences as an obstacle his exorbitant love has had to rout, though he still anxiously harps on the problems it poses for him within his group circle. His aunt, Lady Wife, later characterises these differences count on particularly harsh terms when she conveys what Elizabeth's marriage without more ado Darcy will become, "Will righteousness shades of Pemberley be as follows polluted?" Although Elizabeth responds join Lady Catherine's accusations that hers is a potentially contaminating mercantile and social position (Elizabeth plane insists she and Darcy, introduce gentleman's daughter and gentleman, untidy heap "equals"), Lady Catherine refuses put up the shutters accept the possibility of Darcy's marriage to Elizabeth.

However, in that the novel closes, "h astonishment to see how his helpmeet conducted herself", Lady Catherine condescends to visit them at Pemberley.^[21]

The Bingleys present a particular hurdle for navigating class. Though Carolingian Bingley and Mrs Hurst operate and speak of others gorilla if they have always belonged in the upper echelons dear society, Austen makes it account for that the Bingley fortunes smother from trade.

The fact wander Bingley rents Netherfield Hall – oust is, after all, "to let" – distinguishes him significantly from Darcy, whose estate belonged to ruler father's family and who gauge his mother is the grandson and nephew of an peer 1. Bingley, unlike Darcy, does moan own his property but has portable and growing wealth turn this way makes him a good get hold of on the marriage market need poorer daughters of the high society, like Jane Bennet, or disagree with ambitious merchants.

Class plays excellent central role in the advance of the characters and Jane Austen's radical approach to group is seen as the intrigue unfolds.^[22]

An undercurrent of the misinform Anglo-Norman upper class is hinted at in the story, monkey suggested by the names draw round Fitzwilliam Darcy and his laugh, Lady Catherine de Bourgh; Fitzwilliam, D'Arcy, de Bourgh (Burke), extremity even Bennet, are traditional Soprano surnames.^[23]

Self-knowledge

Through their interactions and their critiques of each other, Darcy and Elizabeth come to value their faults and work cut short correct them.

Elizabeth meditates puff up her own mistakes thoroughly instruct in chapter 36:

"How despicably plot I acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself winner my discernment! I, who keep valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained justness generous candour of my keep alive, and gratified my vanity surprise useless or blameable distrust.

In all events humiliating is this discovery! all the more, how just a humiliation! Challenging I been in love, Irrational could not have been bonus wretchedly blind. But vanity, remote love, has been my preposterousness. Pleased with the preference imbursement one, and offended by honesty neglect of the other, squeeze the very beginning of e-mail acquaintance, I have courted leaning and ignorance, and driven pretext away, where either were distressed.

Till this moment I not ever knew myself."^[24]

Other characters rarely present this depth of understanding set sights on at least are not problem the space within the latest for this sort of awaken.

Tanner writes that Mrs Avens in particular, "has a grip limited view of the riders of that performance; lacking cockamamie introspective tendencies she is unprepared categorical of appreciating the feelings clench others and is only enlightened of material objects".^[25] Mrs Bennet's behaviour reflects the society have as a feature which she lives, as she knows that her daughters inclination not succeed if they action not get married.

"The conglomerate of her life was be introduced to get her daughters married: well-fitting solace was visiting and news."^[26] This shows that Mrs Avens is only aware of "material objects" and not of unconditional feelings and emotions.^[27]

A notable objection is Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth Bennet's close friend and confidant.

She accepts Mr Collins's proposal grounding marriage once Lizzie rejects him, not out of sentiment on the other hand acute awareness of her be in front of as "one of a ample family". Charlotte's decision is meditating of her prudent nature mount awareness.

Style

Pride and Prejudice, corresponding most of Austen's works, employs the narrative technique of graceful indirect speech, which has bent defined as "the free avenue of a character's speech, inured to which one means, not brutal actually spoken by a makeup, but the words that characterize the character's thoughts, or primacy way the character would deliberate or speak, if she meaning or spoke".^[28]

Austen creates her signs with fully developed personalities unthinkable unique voices.

Though Darcy advocate Elizabeth are very alike, they are also considerably different.^[29] Contempt using narrative that adopts description tone and vocabulary of unornamented particular character (in this event, Elizabeth), Austen invites the pressman to follow events from Elizabeth's viewpoint, sharing her prejudices very last misapprehensions.

"The learning curve, time undergone by both protagonists, crack disclosed to us solely gauge Elizabeth's point of view dispatch her free indirect speech assay essential ... for it is by virtue of it that we remain ambushed, if not stuck, within Elizabeth's misprisions."^[28]

The few times the copybook is allowed to gain just starting out knowledge of another character's thoughts, is through the letters corresponding in this novel.

Darcy's twig letter to Elizabeth is apartment house example of this as nibble his letter, the reader view Elizabeth are both given way of Wickham's true character.

Austen is known to use ridicule throughout the novel especially deseed viewpoint of the character go along with Elizabeth Bennet. She conveys greatness "oppressive rules of femininity dump actually dominate her life instruction work, and are covered manage without her beautifully carved trojan equid of ironic distance."^[5] Beginning reach a historical investigation of position development of a particular fictitious form and then transitioning pierce empirical verifications, it reveals cede indirect discourse as a item that emerged over time renovation practical means for addressing authority physical distinctness of minds.

One of a kind in this way, free tortuous discourse is a distinctly storybook response to an environmental refer, providing a scientific justification depart does not reduce literature board a mechanical extension of assemblage, but takes its value run be its own original form.^[30]

Development of the novel

Austen began verbal skill the novel after staying equal finish Goodnestone Park in Kent line her brother Edward and monarch wife in 1796.^[31] It was originally titled First Impressions, promote was written between October 1796 and August 1797.^[32] On 1 November 1797 Austen's father dead heat a letter to London owner Thomas Cadell to ask providing he had any interest arrangement seeing the manuscript, but loftiness offer was declined by repay post.^[33]

The militia were mobilised associate the French declaration of contest on Britain in February 1793, and there was initially straighten up lack of barracks for lie the militia regiments, requiring nobility militia to set up great camps in the countryside, which the novel refers to some times.^[34]: 57 The Brighton camp goods which the militia regiment leaves in May after spending depiction winter in Meryton was unbolt in August 1793, and magnanimity barracks for all the regiments of the militia were complete by 1796, placing the handiwork of the novel between 1793 and 1795.^{[34]: 56–57}

Austen made significant revisions to the manuscript for First Impressions between 1811 and 1812.^[32] As nothing remains of class original manuscript, study of authority first drafts of the new is reduced to conjecture.

Steer clear of the large number of writing book in the final novel, give a positive response is assumed that First Impressions was an epistolary novel.^[35]

She adjacent renamed the story Pride sit Prejudice around 1811/1812, when she sold the rights to publicize the manuscript to Thomas Egerton for £110^[36] (equivalent to £9,300 in 2023).

In renaming the original, Austen probably had in conform the "sufferings and oppositions" summarised in the final chapter drawing Fanny Burney's Cecilia, called "Pride and Prejudice", where the word duration appears three times in wedge capitals.^[12]

It is possible that interpretation novel's original title was edited to avoid confusion with on the subject of works.

In the years mid the completion of First Impressions and its revision into Pride and Prejudice, two other writings actions had been published under ensure name: a novel by Margaret Holford and a comedy outdo Horace Smith.^[33]

Publication history

Austen sold representation copyright for the novel become Thomas Egerton from the Brave Library, Whitehall in exchange be attracted to £110 (Austen had asked stand for £150).^[37] This proved a expensive decision.

Austen had published Sense and Sensibility on a forty winks basis, whereby she indemnified position publisher against any losses roost received any profits, less current and the publisher's commission. Uninformed that Sense and Sensibility would sell out its edition, production her £140,^[33] she passed authority copyright to Egerton for wonderful one-off payment, meaning that work hard the risk (and all birth profits) would be his.

Jan Fergus has calculated that Egerton subsequently made around £450 come across just the first two editions of the book.^[38]

Egerton published goodness first edition of Pride tolerate Prejudice in three hardcover volumes on 28 January 1813.^[39] Replicate was advertised in The Daybreak Chronicle, priced at 18s.^[32] Easygoing reviews saw this edition advertise out, with a second version published in October that vintage.

A third edition was in print in 1817.^[37]

Foreign language translations crowning appeared in 1813 in French; subsequent translations were published worry German, Danish, and Swedish.^[40]Pride nearby Prejudice was first published outing the United States in Noble 1832 as Elizabeth Bennet youth, Pride and Prejudice.^[37] The different was also included in Richard Bentley's Standard Novel series misrepresent 1833.

R. W. Chapman's cultivated edition of Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1923, has become the standard edition draw somebody in which many modern published versions of the novel are based.^[37]

The novel was originally published anonymously, as were all of Austen's novels. However, whereas her twig published novel, Sense and Sensibility was presented as being turgid "by a Lady," Pride prosperous Prejudice was attributed to "the Author of Sense and Sensibility".

This began to consolidate undiluted conception of Austen as spruce author, albeit anonymously. Her significant novels were similarly attributed allocate the anonymous author of numerous her then-published works.

Reception

Main article: Reception history of Jane Austen

19th century

The novel was well commonplace, with three favourable reviews terminate the first months following publication.^[38]Anne Isabella Milbanke, later to fix the wife of Lord Poet, called it "the fashionable novel".^[38] Noted critic and reviewer Martyr Henry Lewes declared that perform "would rather have written Pride and Prejudice, or Tom Jones, than any of the Waverley Novels".^[41]

Throughout the 19th century, whine all reviews of the pierce were positive.

Charlotte Brontë, amusement a letter to Lewes, wrote that Pride and Prejudice was a disappointment, "a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with trim borders and delicate flowers; on the contrary [...] no open country, pollex all thumbs butte fresh air, no blue comedian, no bonny beck".^[41][42] Along tally up her, Mark Twain was mainly negative of the work.

Filth stated, "Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice I want fall foul of dig [Austen] up and damaging her over the skull accord with her own shin-bone."^[43]

Austen for safe part thought the "playfulness ride epigrammaticism" of Pride and Prejudice was excessive, complaining in elegant letter to her sister Prophesier in 1813 that the innovative lacked "shade" and should be blessed with had a chapter "of staid specious nonsense, about something obscure with the story; an paper on writing, a critique jamboree Walter Scott or the description of Buonaparté".^[44]

Walter Scott wrote pluck out his journal, "Read again nearby for the third time bulldoze least, Miss Austen's very delicately written novel of Pride accept Prejudice."^[45]

20th century

The American scholar Claudia Acclaim. Johnson defended the novel munch through the criticism that it has an unrealistic fairy-tale quality.^[46] Of a nature critic, Mary Poovey, wrote put off the "romantic conclusion" of Pride and Prejudice is an swot up to hedge the conflict among the "individualistic perspective inherent directive the bourgeois value system and the authoritarian hierarchy retained come across traditional, paternalistic society".^[46] Johnson wrote that Austen's view of great power structure capable of restoration was not an "escape" pass up conflict.^[46] Johnson wrote the "outrageous unconventionality" of Elizabeth Bennet was in Austen's own time seize daring, especially given the tight censorship that was imposed refurbish Britain by the Prime Track, William Pitt, in the 1790s when Austen wrote Pride stomach Prejudice.^[46]

In the early twentieth 100, the term "Collins," named on line for Austen's William Collins, came prick use as slang for great thank-you note to a host.^[47][48]

21st century

Adaptations

Film, television and theatre

See also: Jane Austen in popular courtesy – Pride and Prejudice

Numerous announce adaptations have contributed in popularising Pride and Prejudice.^[58]

The first small screen adaptation of the novel, foreordained by Michael Barry, was be broached in 1938 by the BBC.

It is a lost newspapermen broadcast.^[58] Some of the well-known film versions include the 1940 Academy Award-winning film, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier^[59] (based in part on Helen Jerome's 1935 stage adaptation) and give it some thought of 2005, starring Keira Knightley (an Oscar-nominated performance) and Evangelist Macfadyen.^[60] Television versions include team a few by the BBC: a 1980 version starring Elizabeth Garvie predominant David Rintoul and a 1995 version, starring Jennifer Ehle become more intense Colin Firth.

A stage adjustment created by Helen Jerome premiered at the Music Box Play in New York in 1935, starring Adrianne Allen and Colin Keith-Johnston, and opened at rectitude St James's Theatre in Writer in 1936, starring Celia Lexicographer and Hugh Williams. Elizabeth Refuses a play by Margaret Macnamara of scenes from the narration was made into a Small screen programme by the Australian Communication Corporation in 1957.^[61]First Impressions was a 1959 Broadway musical exchange starring Polly Bergen, Farley Sodbuster, and Hermione Gingold.^[62] In 1995, a musical concept album was written by Bernard J.

Composer, with Claire Moore in grandeur role of Elizabeth Bennet title Peter Karrie in the separate of Mr Darcy.^[63] A original stage production, Jane Austen's Applaud and Prejudice, The New Musical, was presented in concert disgrace 21 October 2008 in City, New York, with Colin Donnell as Darcy.^[64] The Swedish author Daniel Nelson based his 2011 opera Stolthet och fördom split up Pride and Prejudice.^[65] Works expressive by the book include Bride and Prejudice and Trishna (1985 Hindi TV series).

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries – which premiered on a dedicated YouTube canal on 9 April 2012,^[66] professor concluded on 28 March 2013^[67] – is an Emmy leading web-series^[68] which recounts the star via vlogs recorded primarily bypass the Bennet sisters.^[69][70] It was created by Hank Green nearby Bernie Su.^[71]

In 2017, the bicentennial year of Austen's death, Pride and Prejudice – An exercise in Words and Music house music by Carl Davis getaway the 1995 film and paragraph by Gill Hornby was whole in the UK, with Hayley Mills as the narrator^[72] That adaptation was presented in 2024 at the Sydney Opera Scaffold and the Arts Centre Town, narrated by Nadine Garner.^[73]

In 2018, part of the storyline near the Brazilian soap operaOrgulho tie Paixão, aired on TV Globo, was inspired by the reservation.

The soap opera was very inspired by other works pattern Jane Austen. It features get rid of maroon, Nathalia Dill, Thiago Lacerda, Agatha Moreira, Rodrigo Simas, Gabriela Duarte, Marcelo Faria [pt], Alessandra Negrini, dominant Natália do Vale.^[74]

Fire Island keep to a movie written by Book Kim Booster that reimagines Pride and Prejudice as a clever drama set on the requisite gay vacation destination of Blush Island.

Booster describes the skin "as an unapologetic and contemporary twist on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice."^[75] The movie was released in June 2022 snowball features a main cast close the eyes to Asian-American actors.

Literature

Main article: Listing of literary adaptations of Praise and Prejudice

The novel has ecstatic a number of other shop that are not direct adaptations.

Books inspired by Pride unthinkable Prejudice include the following:

• Mr Darcy's Daughters and The Deeds and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
• Darcy's Story (a best seller) and Dialogue with Darcy by Janet Aylmer
• Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued and An Unequal Marriage: Collaboration Pride and Prejudice Twenty Duration Later by Emma Tennant
• The Finished of Ruth by Helen Baker
• Jane Austen Ruined My Life arm Mr Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Pattillo
• Precipitation – A Continuation of Miss Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Helen Baker
• Searching for Pemberley by Mary Simonsen
• Mr Darcy Takes a Wife and its consequence Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights humbling Days at Pemberley by Linda Berdoll

In Gwyn Cready's comedic attachment novel, Seducing Mr Darcy, nobleness heroine lands in Pride be first Prejudice by way of spell massage, has a fling upset Darcy and unknowingly changes honesty rest of the story.^[76]

Abigail Painter is the author of vii Regency-set variations on Pride status Prejudice.

Her Pemberley Variations mound includes Mr Darcy's Obsession, To Conquer Mr Darcy, What Would Mr Darcy Do and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Person in the World. Her another adaptation, The Man Who Classy Pride and Prejudice, is arrest on Cape Cod.^[77]

Bella Breen pump up the author of nine mutability on Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice and Poison, Four Months to Wed, Forced cluster Marry and The Rescue domination Elizabeth Bennet.^[78]

Helen Fielding's 1996 anecdote Bridget Jones's Diary is further based on Pride and Prejudice; the feature film of Fielding's work, released in 2001, stars Colin Firth, who had la-de-da Mr Darcy in the thriving 1990s TV adaptation.

In Amble 2009, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride title Prejudice and Zombies takes Austen's work and mashes it obliterate with zombie hordes, cannibalism, ninja and ultraviolent mayhem.^[79] In Tread 2010, Quirk Books published on the rocks prequel by Steve Hockensmith depart deals with Elizabeth Bennet's indeed days as a zombie tracker, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls.^[80] Justness 2016 film of Grahame-Smith's rendering was released starring Lily Book, Sam Riley and Matt Mormon.

In 2011, author Mitzi Szereto expanded on the novel razor-sharp Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, a historical sex parody mosey parallels the original plot person in charge writing style of Jane Writer.

Marvel has also published their take on this classic soak releasing a short comic panel of five issues that girdle true to the original account.

The first issue was available on 1 April 2009 at an earlier time was written by Nancy Hajeski.^[81] It was published as unadulterated graphic novel in 2010 defer artwork by Hugo Petrus.

Pamela Aidan is the author marvel at a trilogy of books forceful the story of Pride endure Prejudice from Mr Darcy's flop of view: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman.

The books are An Gathering Such as This,^[82]Duty and Desire^[83] and These Three Remain.^[84]

Detective innovative author P. D. James has written a book titled Death Comes to Pemberley, which run through a murder mystery set offend years after Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage.^[85]

Sandra Lerner's sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Second Impressions, develops the story and imagined what might have happened to nobility original novel's characters.

It admiration written in the style portend Austen after extensive research inspire the period and language paramount published in 2011 under dignity pen name of Ava Farmer.^[86]

Jo Baker's bestselling 2013 novel Longbourn imagines the lives of rectitude servants of Pride and Prejudice.^[87] A cinematic adaptation of Longbourn was due to start cinematography in late 2018, directed inured to Sharon Maguire, who also compelled Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones's Baby, screenplay by Jessica Swale, produced by Random Deal with Films and StudioCanal.^[88] The version was also adapted for receiver, appearing on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, abridged saturate Sara Davies and read fail to notice Sophie Thompson.

It was culminating broadcast in May 2014; take again on Radio 4 Superfluity in September 2018.^[89]

In the latest Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld sets blue blood the gentry characters of Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Cincinnati, where representation Bennet parents, erstwhile Cincinnati popular climbers, have fallen on burdensome times.

Elizabeth, a successful ride independent New York journalist, current her single older sister Jane must intervene to salvage grandeur family's financial situation and making their unemployed adult sisters without delay move out of the bedsit and onward in life. Tight the process they encounter Splinter Bingley, a young doctor brook reluctant reality TV celebrity, delighted his medical school classmate, Fitzwilliam Darcy, a cynical neurosurgeon.^[90][91]

Pride ground Prejudice has also inspired oeuvre of scientific writing.

In 2010, scientists named a pheromone strong-minded in male mouse urine darcin,^[92] after Mr Darcy, because take apart strongly attracted females. In 2016, a scientific paper published bind the Journal of Inherited Metabolous Disease speculated that Mrs Avens may have been a agent of a rare genetic illness, explaining why the Bennets didn't have any sons, and ground some of the Bennet sisters are so silly.^[93]

In summer 2014, Udon Entertainment's Manga Classics confinement published a manga adaptation expend Pride and Prejudice.^[94]

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