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Classic SerialJane Austen - Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice at 200

Jane Austen's classic novel turned 200 last year

  • The first lines of Pride and Prejudice published in a first edition of the novel in 1813
  • The title page of the first edition of Pride and Prejudice, published January 28th 1813
  • An extract from a letter by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, in which she calls her new novel 'my own darling Child'.
  • Jane wrote the letter the day after Pride and Prejudice's publication, in 1813.
  • 1st edition copies of Pride and Prejudice
  • Hugh Thomson's iconic illustrations appeared in the 1894 edition of the novel
  • Hugh Thomson's 1984 illustrated cover of Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Austen's writing table in her Chawton home where she spent the last eight years of her life

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  • Classic Serial—Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen's famous novel of manners is dramatised by Charlotte Jones.

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