It’s official: Pride and Prejudice is an English Icon
The votes are in, and Pride and Prejudice has been chosen as one of the latest batch of Icons of England.
Dubbed as the first psychological novel by some for its depth of characterisation, Pride And Prejudice has it all – love triangles, class divide, vanity, snobbery. And the dashing Mr Darcy!
Hard to say it better than that! Don’t forget to check out the associated biography, features and “What Next” pages for this English icon.
April 28th, 2006 at 7:32 am
I am very happy to learn this. I enjoyed this quote under the “Stage and Screen Adaptations” section.
It has been said that ’seeing a movie or television adaptation of any of Jane Austen’s works is like hearing a symphony played on a harmonica.’ (Nattcafé, Swedish television)
I admired the homage given to Pride and Prejudice. Though, it is sad that the Bennet name is misspelled… again. That is no way to treat an Icon!
~Meghan
April 28th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Pride And Prejudice has it all – love triangles, class divide, vanity, snobbery. And the dashing Mr Darcy!
Nor is it any way to treat the novel by passing in silence over “…as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print”. No wonder there’s the mistaken notion that it’s Chick Lit.
April 28th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Nice link. However, I am somewhat surprised to read this - “The setting was 1797, around the time the novel was written rather than published, so the girls skip about in diaphanous Empire-line dresses, with rather more plunging necklines than would have been acceptable.” - about the 1995 P&P. News to me. The costumes are much more of the 1810-1815 period than late eighteenth century (just checked in my precious volume ‘Costume in Detail, 1730-1930′ by Nancy Bradfield for confirmation).
Sounds like they are getting this rather muddledup with the time period of the latest film version…