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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
This Web page features an overview of Pride and Prejudice, a biography, several brief essays about Jane Austen's world, questions for discussion, summaries of Austen's other works, and related links.

A Pride and Prejudice Photo Album
These photographs from the BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice offer a glimpse of what the characters from the novel might have looked like and how they may have dressed.

Pride and Prejudice
This comprehensive site is devoted to Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's classic tale of marriage and social stratification in nineteenth-century England. The entire electronic text of the novel is here, plus Jane Austen's opinion of her work, a list of the characters, links to important settings from the novel and Austen's life, and many more related features.

Women Romantic Poets 1785-1832: An Anthology edited by Jennifer Breen

British Women Romantic Poets: 1789-1832
Visit this University of California-Davis collection of electronic texts by British women poets who wrote during the Romantic era. Click on Browse Texts to peruse a list of the unsung women poets of the time and their works. Some selections include interesting correspondence written by the poets as well.

Jane and the Man of Cloth by Stephanie Barron

Jane Austen's Bath
At the beginning of Jane and the Man of Cloth, Jane and her sister are traveling from Bath to the seaside. This Bath Tourism Bureau site features photographs, information, and maps highlighting the real-life time that Jane Austen spent in Bath in the early 1800s.

The Way to Xanadu: Journeys to a Legendary Realm by Caroline Alexander

A travel writer searches for the sources of Kubla Khan
Caroline Alexander was so moved by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" that she journeyed to the various locales that inspired the poem and then wrote a book about her travels. Read this Time magazine book review of The Way to Xanadu: Journeys to a Legendary Realm to find out more about the magical landscapes Coleridge imagined but Alexander actually got to see.


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