‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published #onthisday in 1813. The novel was first published anonymously – at the time an acquaintance of Jane’s brother told him it was ‘much too clever to be the work of a woman’. In the last 200 years, it has sold over 20 million copies and has never been out of print.
This illustration shows Elizabeth Bennett with Mr Darcy, and was made by Helen Binyon in 1938.
Pride and Prejudice was first published #onthisday in 1813 and we're marking the occasion with the opening words to the novel. Which line from the story do you quote most?
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