Saturday, February 28, 2015

Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

01) Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
02) Austen apparently had unfettered access both to her father's library and that of a family friend, Warren Hastings.
03) Landed gentry is a largely historical privileged British social class, consisting of land owners who could live entirely off rental income. Often they worked only in an administrative capacity, in the management of their own lands, or in such professions as politics and the armed forces. The decline of the class largely stemmed from the 1870s agricultural depression.
04) Pride and Prejudice -- It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, selling over 20 million copies, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars.
05) The novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a country gentleman. Elizabeth's father, Mr Bennet, is a bookish man, and somewhat neglectful of his responsibilities. In contrast Elizabeth's mother, Mrs Bennet, a woman who lacks social graces, is primarily concerned with finding suitable husbands for her five daughters. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is distinguished by her kindness and beauty; Elizabeth Bennet shares her father's keen wit and occasionally sarcastic outlook; Mary is not pretty, but is studious, devout and musical albeit lacking in taste; Catherine, sometimes called Kitty, the fourth sister, follows where her younger sister leads, while Lydia is flirtatious and unrestrained.
06) Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without. ---- Wikiquote 

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