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Pride & Prejudice By: Jane Austen Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 and passed away July 18, 1817. She was an English novelist who was educated mostly by her father and her older brothers; she also would read quit a bit which furthered her education. Jane was also sent to Oxford with her sister to be educated. Jane had a mother, a father, one sister, and six brothers. Early on she began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own amusement. Later as a successful writer she wrote many novels some are __Sense and Sensibility__, __Pride and Prejudice__, __Mansfield Park__, __Emma__, __Northanger Abbey__, and __Persuasion__. Jane published her first novel, __Sense and Sensibility__, on October 1811. __ Sense and Sensibility __ sold out by mid-1813. Her earnings from __ Sense and Sensibility __ provided her with some financial independence. Then, she had __Pride and Prejudice__ published in January 1813. Her publisher advertised the book widely and it was an instant success, getting a few favourable reviews and selling very well. Jane ended up publishing and selling all of her books succesfully. Then early in 1816, Jane began to feel sick. She was said to have something called Addisons disease, but she continued to work even with her illness. She ended up dieing in Winchester by the end of the year, at the age of 41. Jane Austen made many great and timeless novels, which are still loved and widely read today.



Summary- __Pride and Prejudice__ takes place in the village of Longbourn. It starts of with a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley visiting Netherfirld Park. This causes much excitment. The Bennet household is especially excited considering they have five daughters. Mr. Bennet decides to visit Mr. Bingley. Later the girls all attend a ball, and Mr. Bingley is also there. Mr. Bingley expreses quit an interest in Jane, the oldest Bennet girl, and spends most of the night with her. His close friend, Mr. Darcy, is also at the ball but he is not happy with the evening and is looked upon by the other guests to be snobish, rude and arrogant. During the night he refuses to dance with Elizabeth, the second oldest Bennet girl. This does not bother her because she is a strong willed, independent women, and she also finds Mr. Darcy to be arrogant. The Bennet girls see the Bingley party often, and through out the next few weeks as Mr. Darcy gets to know Elizabeth better he starts to take a liking to her and finds her to be charming and intelligent, and Mr. Bingleys' and Janes relationship grows also. Eventually Jane descides to go visit Mr. Bingley and becomes ill on her way there forcing her to stay there longer and making it so Elizabeth has to aid to her. When at the mansion Elizabeth finds that Mr. Bingley's sisters do not like her family, and do not want Jane to marry their brother this bothers Elizabeth, she also runs into Mr. Darcy who pays a noticable amount of attention to her while she is there.



When the girls eventually return home Mr. Bennet's property entailer, Mr. Collins, is visiting. Mr. Collins becomes interested in Elizabeth and proposes to her, but she politly turns him down. During this time the Bennet girls find interest in the militia officers who are stationed nearby. While visiting the towns the soldiers are stationed in Elizabeth befriends a man named Wickham. He is handsome, young, and a soldier. They become very close and he ends up knowing Darcy, he speaks very badly of him and tells Elizabeth how he had cheated him out of an inheritance, and Elizabeth instinantly believes him. Soon the Bingley Party returns to London, which sadens Jane. Right as they are leaving more news comes in, Mr. Collins and Elizabeths best friend Charlotte Lucas have just been engaged. Elizabeth questions her on this and Charlotte says it is for finacial reasons, they do not go into the subject further other then Elizabeth promising to visit her. Jane ends up wanting to see Mr. Bingley so she goes to the city to visit some friends in hopes of running into him, she ends up meeting with his sisters but not seeing him, and as it is that his sister do not like the Bennets' they do not tell Mr. Bingley of Janes visit, Mr. Darcy also tells Mr. Bingley to distance himself from her. This causes Jane and Mr. Bingley to become distant and eventually to not keep in touch at all, Jane is heart broken. As time passes Elizabeth decides it is time to visit her friend Charlotte who lives close to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's aunt. During Elizabeths visit to Charlotte, Mr. Darcy also is visiting Lady Catherine de Bourgh and runs into Elizabeth. They spend a lot of time together and Mr. Darcy ends up proposing to her, she declines stating that she suspects him to be the cause of her sister Janes unhappiness and she also brings up Wickhams story of Mr. Darcy stealing his inheritance. He just leaves her, but very soon later gives her a letter admitting he was the cause of Janes unhappiness, and explains that Wickham is a liar and that the actual reason why they are in a disagreement is because Wickman tried to elope with his sister, Georgiana, for her fortune. The letter makes her think more deeply about how she feels about everything, and she decides she is inlove with Mr. Darcy.

When she gets home the militia is just leaving, which is very upsetting to the youngest Bennet girl Lydia. So she convinces her father to let her stay with one of the familys, he says yes thinking this will keep her away from trouble rather then get her into it. Elizabeth decides to go on another trip with her relatives, the Gardiners. Eventually they end up visiting Mr. Darcy's estate and while there his servents say how kind hearted and generous he his, making her re-evaluate her feelings even further. She ends up running into Mr. Darcy and he has her meet his sister, but during her visit she gets a letter from home saying that Lydia and Wickham have eloped. She tells Darcy what has happened and quickly goes home knowing this will disgrace her family if they are not found and married without word of the happenings. They are eventually found but Wickham has to be paid off to marry Lydia, and no one knows who the money provider is. After all these happenings Mr. Darcy comes to visit the Bennets with Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bingley once again starts talking to Jane and ends up proposing to her. While visiting Mr. Darcy speaks with Elizabeth and explains he was the finacial provider, this shocks her but in a good way, and she decides now that she is without a doubt in love with Mr. Darcy. Plot- __Pride and Prejudice__ is about a girl named Elizabeth falling in love with a wealthly man named Darcy. The story takes place in Longbourn. This is a very unlikely couple because at first they had no interest in eachother, but they slowly develope a liking for eachother when they see eachothers true personalities. They are also fighting againt many odds, some including family matters and money. This book is for the tender hearted or just anyone who like a good love story.

Criticism- What worked? I personally really enjoyed this book, the things that it includes that really worked in its favor were the story line and the characters personalities. The story line worked in its favor because it has a short of unusual twist to it and you dont know what to expect at first, thourghout the whole book your kind of wondering if Elizabeth does love him and shes just not saying it which makes you want to keep reading and go forward with it. The characters personalities worked in its favor because if Elizabeth would not have been so strong minded, and Darcy so contriversal, the book would have been just normal and uninteresting.

What didn't? The time of the story, and the dialect of the book. The time of the story made it a little les interesting to me because i couldn't relate to book and the character as well. The dialect of the book was confusing and made it hard for me to read the book in general, i had to read things a couple times to understand them which made reading tedious and a lot less uninteresting for me.

Literary Information- genre- love story style- a new and cutting edge style of writing in england at the time time period- early 1800s copyright-1813 author- Jane Austen

Why this book is outstanding- __Pride and Prejudice__ is over all an outstaning book because it is still very popular some two hundred years later, it is a classic love story with a twist. The book has an outstandingly eventful plot that always keeps the reader interested. The characters also draw you into the plot with their very different ways of thinking and acting. I would definitely recomend this book to others, but only if you are interested in love stories otherwise it might be boring to you.

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