Pride and Prejudice

noun

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

Pride and Prejudice

(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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The writer of the BBC's Pride and Prejudice adaptation starring Colin Firth says the idea came from a former student who suggested he make it "really sexy".

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

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Davies said his former student Sue Birtwistle, who is now a TV producer, said to him "you and I should do a really sexy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice".

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There's also a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Emma Corrin coming to Netflix.

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But I am also Elizabeth Bennet from “Pride and Prejudice,” sometimes.