PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Definition & Meaning

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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Macfadyen won two Emmys and two Baftas for playing Tom Wambsgans in Succession, starred in 2005's Pride and Prejudice film as Mr Darcy, and was recently in Deadpool & Wolverine.

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When we were doing “Pride and Prejudice,” all of Elizabeth’s socks had to be striped.

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That same year gave us “Brokeback Mountain,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “The Constant Gardener,” “Cinderella Man,” “A History of Violence,” “The 40 Year-Old Virgin,” “Wedding Crashers,” “Pride and Prejudice” and plenty of other fine, sophisticated, adult movies.

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The Pride and Prejudice author died in the city in 1817, and was buried in the cathedral grounds.

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The always charismatic Keri Russell is delightful as a Jane Austen obsessive who heads to an Austen-themed English resort hotel, hoping to find a “Pride and Prejudice”-style romance, only to bump up against the limits of romantic fantasy.

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