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Pride and Prejudice
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 1813
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Set in 1813 in Hertfordshire, this Regency novel of manners follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, and her four sisters. Their father Mr. Bennet owns the Longbourn estate, but the property is entailed and can only pass to a male heir, and Mrs. Bennet has no inheritance, leaving the family facing poverty upon his death. This financial pressure makes it imperative that at least one of the five daughters marry well to support the others, a motivation that drives the plot. Elizabeth's arc centers on learning about the repercussions of hasty judgments and coming to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
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- Regency: “Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners” source
- Strong Heroine: “the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness” source
- Coming of Age: “learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness” source
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