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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice turns 200 today

Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice celebrates its 200th year in print.

Would you believe that today marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice being published? We’re sure that those of you aspiring authors with a Writers News and Writing Magazine subscription would love your work to be as cherished after two centuries.

Pride and Prejudice tells the tale of the Bennet sisters and their mothers’ plans to find them all a husbands. After initially getting off on the wrong foot protagonist Elizabeth Bennet falls madly in love with everyone’s favourite romantic hero Mr Darcy and, of course, they live happily ever after.

Austen’s novels have inspired hundreds of adaptations on stage, television and in the films and thousands of books inspired by her work have been published – including PD James’ Death at Pemberley and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

We shall be celebrating this evening in front of the BBC adaptation, enjoying Colin Firth’s dip in the lake...

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Posted by Amy Power.

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