Happy 200th Birthday, Pride and Prejudice

Hello, my name is Cindy and I’m an Austenite.

I love every book she ever wrote. I love her letters to her sister. I love the movies.

Monday is the 200th Anniversary of publishing of Pride and Prejudice.

Elizabeth Bennet, lead character in Pride and Prejudice which was Austen’s second book, is my favorite of all of Jane Austen’s characters. She is snarky, snide at times, intelligent, well-read, amusing, amused and grows so much during the telling of the story that she is almost an entirely different woman at the end than she was at the beginning. She has her own Wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bennet

After digging through all of my copies of Austen novels, I’ve discovered I only have one copy of P & P which blows my mind. Here it is and is a “textbook” version of it when schools in Mississippi still had the money to buy books for the classroom instead of sending the kids to the library or the internet (don’t get me on my soapbox about the underfunding of education in Mississippi):

My favorite movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is the BBC version released during the height of Austen movie mania in the 1990’s and was a mini-series. The video quality is not too great and since they actually shoot on video, not film, I don’t know that it would be able to be remastered…seems like this would have been a good time to release a remastered version of it but I’ve heard nothing about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_series)

A friend posted a link to an article featuring many of the covers of the books over the past two hundred years (TWO HUNDRED YEARS) which I found fascinating! Thanks, Samantha! http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/pride-and-prejudice-200th-anniversary-covers/60978/

The Jane Austen Facebook site has been celebrating the 200th anniversary for a week now with quotes and photos from Austen and the movie. If you’re a fan and are not following the site, now is the time to like it. https://www.facebook.com/JaneAustenAuthor?fref=ts

If you’ve never read any Jane Austen and you’ve always meant to do so, “let this be one of the occasions”.