Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It was written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions. Revised in 1811, it was published two years later in 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton, of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory.

Trivia

• The 1995 Pride and Prejudice (BBC) version used Lyme Hall, Cheshire as the location for "Pemberley".
• In 2003 the BBC conducted the largest ever poll for the "UK's Best-Loved Book" in which Pride and Prejudice came second.
• Author Philip Jose Farmer has placed Elizabeth and Darcy (and their descendants) in his Wold Newton family.