Description: The arrival of two rich bachelors stirs Mrs. Bennet to hope that wedding bells will soon be in the air. Jane, the eldest of Mrs. Bennett's daughters, forms an early attachment to Mr. Bingley, but her clever, spirited sister, Elizabeth immediately takes against the arrogant Mr. Darcy. Events conspire to keep Jane and Mr. Bingley apart, while Darcy's pride and Lizzy's prejudice hamper the course of true love.
Brief description: Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Steventon Rectory, a village in north-east Hampshire, England, on December 16, 1775. The Austen family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children in a rector's family, Jane started writing a young age. She is now one of the most widely read and respected of all English language novelists, but was never publicly acknowledged as a writer during her lifetime. Her six major novels, now considered literary classics, are Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.