I remember a few years ago when Pride and Prejudice, the one with Keira Knightely, was showing in theaters. I was not too familiar with the work until my senior year. My English teacher assigned a research paper. I was given a list of different works of literature and decided on Pride and Prejudice. It was the right choice because I fell in love with the novel and anything to do with Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen began writing Pride and Prejudice on October, 1796. It wasn’t until the following year at age twenty-one that she completed the book. When the book first started out the title was called First Impressions. Austen was not able to get the manuscript published. It was not until 1811 that she revised it and named it Pride and Prejudice. It was finally published on January 28, 1813. While alive, Jane’s novels were never under her name, like on Pride and Prejudice it said, “The author who wrote Sense and Sensibility.” Pride and Prejudice is one of Austen’s popular novels.
I decided to write about this work because I really enjoyed the book. It’s one of my favorites. I will write what society surrounded at the time of the novel and the time in which it was written. I will explore its different examples of pride and prejudice, and how many movies and books are based on the novel or given a new twist.

Resource: Austen, Jane. “Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen”. 2000. Ann Harker. 31 March 2010. < http://www.austen.com/pride/ >.