Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen began work on the novel when she was barely 21 years old. The publishers rejected the manuscript, and it lay under the cloth for more than fifteen years. It was only after the success of Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, that Jane Austen was finally able to publish her first brainchild. Before publication, she subjected it to careful revision and achieved an extraordinary combination: cheerfulness, spontaneity, epigrammaticity, maturity of thought and skill.

Jane Austen began work on the novel when she was barely 21 years old. The publishers rejected the manuscript, and it lay under the cloth for more than fifteen years. It was only after the success of Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, that Jane Austen was finally able to publish her first brainchild. Before publication, she subjected it to careful revision and achieved an extraordinary combination: cheerfulness, spontaneity, epigrammaticity, maturity of thought and skill.