The Jane Austen Sequels: Pride and Prejudice—an Overview
Jane Austen Biography
On December 16, 1775 Jane Austen was born to George Austen and Cassandra Leigh of Steventon, Hampshire. In her younger years she was tutored at home and then attended the Abbey School in Reading, Berkshire. She wrote at an early age on her observations on culture and society with humor, irony and sophistication.
When her father died, her mother moved the family to Southampton. She published her first novel Sense and Sensibility in 1811 and her second—Pride and Prejudice in 1813.
Early in 1816, Jane Austen fell ill and died on July 18, 1817.
In 1832, all the copyrights of Austen’s novels were purchased by Richard Bentley and published them as part of his Standard Novels series. The Jane Austen Sequels have stayed in print since then.
The Important Characters in Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice and the most popular female character in English literature. She is the second daughter in the Bennet family and the most intelligent.
Fitzwilliam Darcy is Elizabeth’s male counterpart, the son of a wealthy and well-established family.
Jane Bennet and Charles Bingely engage in courtship in the novel. Jane is Elizabeth’s beautiful older sister and Charles is Darcy’s best friend.
Novel Summary for Pride and Prejudice
Charles Bingley, the son of a wealthy and well-established family rents Netherfield Park Manor near the Bennet family’s home. The Bennets have five unmarried daughters and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to marry one of them to their wealthy neighbor. In the course of the story, Charles is smitten by Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter and the two go into courtship and eventually marry. While this is happening, Jane’s younger sister Elizabeth is courted by Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles’ wealthy best friend. At first, Elizabeth finds Darcy obnoxious and arrogant. She refuses to know him but eventually ends up marrying him once he reveales his deeper character to her.
The novel Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen in 1813. It is a story set in the early 19th century about women marrying for wealth.
Austen wrote the novel with realism as it deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in the aristocratic society of early England.
Jane Austen Sequels for Pride and Prejudice Fans
If you could not get enough of Jane Austen’s original Pride and Prejudice, therer are now hundreds upon hundreds of exellent Jane Austen sequels availiable. Regency era Pride and Prejudice sequels are the most poplular, but sequels now come from every sub genera of fiction and are also set in modern settings.
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