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Pride and Prejudice

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1813) by Jane Austen (written 1796–97).


Pride and Prejudice Cultural  
  1. (1813) A comic novel by Jane Austen about the life of an upper-middle-class family, the Bennets, in eighteenth-century England. A complex succession of events ends with the marriages of the two eldest Bennet daughters.


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With Pride and Prejudice published in 1813, why do the cast and crew of this new drama think her work continues to speak to people?

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

Molly Wright, who plays Kitty adds that Austen is "so ahead of her time" in her views on "marriage and feminism" in Pride and Prejudice.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

Davies adapted Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice into a six-episode BBC series which aired in 1995.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

Macfadyen won two Emmys and two Baftas for playing Tom Wambsgans in Succession, starred in 2005's Pride and Prejudice film as Mr Darcy, and was recently in Deadpool & Wolverine.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

In Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas tells her friend Elizabeth Bennet that it is better to go into a marriage blind to the other persons faults.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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