Introduction

Join us in celebration of author Jane Austen (1775-1817) through her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice and modern interpretations and sequels and spin offs.

Also, a compilation of her letters and books about her life - including one startling new biography by an Australian writer.

Jane Austen, a clergyman’s daughter raised in the English countryside of Hampshire, was home schooled by her father.

Austen began writing the novel which later became Pride and Prejudice in 1796 ( more than two hundred years ago) and finished it the following year; she was then twenty-one years old.

The publisher Thomas Egerton paid her £110 for the copyright, and it was the only money she would ever earn from her most popular work. It is estimated that 20 million copies of it have been sold world-wide to date.

Its hero and heroine Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet may be the most famous romantic couple in fiction after Romeo and Juliet. 

Numerous retelling and re-imaginings of the original work written have also been published.  

Enjoy !

Roshan Deva