Pride and Prejudice

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a novel (1813) by Jane Austen (written 1796–97).

Pride and Prejudice

(1813) A comic novel by Jane Austen about the life of an upper-middle-class family, the Bennets, in eighteenth-century England. A complex succession of events ends with the marriages of the two eldest Bennet daughters.

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But I am also Elizabeth Bennet from “Pride and Prejudice,” sometimes.

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While Agathe initially identifies with the wilting old maid Anne from “Persuasion,” her shyly budding connection with Oliver is more Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”

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Synnøve Karlsen plays the younger Cassandra, and if I may say so, recalls Jennifer Ehle, who played Elizabeth Bennet opposite Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy in the peerless 1995 BBC “Pride and Prejudice.”

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This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the TV adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” that starred Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 20th anniversary of the film version, with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

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Actor Jack Lowden has said he likes the idea of "breaking down barriers" by being a ginger Mr Darcy in a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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