Pride and Prejudice Resources

A Jane Austen informational page by a website called "The Republic of Pemberley." This site is packed with cool info. We're linking you to the Pride and Prejudice page. Be sure to check out the "Notes on random topics, including the society of Jane Austen's day." Awesome.

This is the homepage for the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

We know, we know – Austen was pre-Victorian, but the good folks at the Victorian Web also provide great resources on some of the most famous pre-Victorian writers, including Austen.  Check out this website for solid historical context, scholarly articles, and more.

The BBC Historic Figures profile for Jane Austen

Learn more about Austen and the TV adaptations of her novels.

Here's an extensive collection of Austen-related links, in case you need more leads.

This includes a virtual tour of the house. 

In Bath, a famous resort town and the setting of some portions of Austen's novels. Includes info and videos.

An old black-and-white version of Pride and Prejudice written by Aldous Huxley and starring Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy.

A BBC miniseries featuring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth.  This much-loved version of Pride and Prejudice faithfully follows the novel.

This movie stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth and Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy.  Although this film isn't completely true to the novel, it was nominated for four Oscars.

Bridget Jones's Diary is a sort of highly modernized spin-off on Pride and Prejudice, with Renée Zellweger as the Elizabeth Bennet equivalent and Colin Firth (yet again) as Darcy.

A modernized version of Pride and Prejudice set on a college campus.

Check out Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood version of the classic novel with the beautiful Aishwarya Rai playing the equivalent character of Elizabeth Bennet.

Be on the lookout for the movie in 2013.

Here's the Australian group The Chaser trying to see if they can pick up women while dressed as Mr. Darcy, and using only Mr. Darcy's lines from the novel.

Check out where Austen lived and wrote her novels.

Includes some info on Pride and Prejudice.

The trailer for the 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley.

From the classic 1995 miniseries.

A faux movie trailer. If only it were real.

Listen to the full book, from LearnOutLoud.com. Watch out, though. The chapters don't display in order.

An interview with David Shapard, the editor of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, from NPR's Talk of the Nation.

This website has lots of manuscripts for Austen's novels. It doesn't include Pride and Prejudice but it's still really cool to see Austen's handwriting and even her scratch marks.

A blog that claims to bring "Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic."

This blog all things Austen – the "novels, movies, sequels and the pop culture she has inspired."

Jane Austen lives! Frequently updated news and snark from a devoted Janeite.

A selection of Austen's letters.  Check out a preview from Google Books.

Read the complete text of Pride and Prejudice online. It comes in many formats (html, pdf, Kindle) and is searchable.

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 miniseries

Matthew MacFayden as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 movie

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 movie

An article from The Atlantic about the income inequality between Elizabeth and Darcy.

This is a conservative website with a variety of feature articles hosts this "investigation" into gentleman-like behavior, as [ironically] exhibited by Austen's Fitzwilliam Darcy. Warning: some of the sentiments in this article will likely incense some readers. It's a great debate starter.

Mark Twain agrees with you, as do several other famous authors.