A lasting impression

By Susannah Fullerton
January 19 2013 - 3:00am
Loved by modern audiences through portrayals by the likes of Keira Knightley (pictured), Elizabeth Bennet did not win publishers' hearts at first.
Loved by modern audiences through portrayals by the likes of Keira Knightley (pictured), Elizabeth Bennet did not win publishers' hearts at first.

TWO days after receiving her copy of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra. ''I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London,'' she announced with delight. She had always noted with sympathy and interest the difficult pregnancies and long, painful childbirths her female relations had undergone, but the ''gestation'' of her ''own darling Child'' went on far longer than any pregnancy and was infinitely less hopeful of a positive outcome than anything her sisters-in-law endured.

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