Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice was originally going to be called “First Impressions.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Jane Austen’s “First Impressions””
Grant, here’s another book title question for you.
This novel of Manners was published in 1813.
The author originally titled her book First Impressions.
She later changed it to something following the same alliterative pattern
Of the title of a book she published two years earlier.
Sense and Sensibility?
That was the earlier one.
No, it was the earlier one.
So the next one is, I’m blanking on it.
Help me out here.
Here’s another hint.
She supposedly borrowed the title from a novel by an author that she admired, Francis Burney,
And the passage that inspired her goes, remember, if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries
So wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.
Pride and prejudice.
Indeed.
Jane Austen.
Yes, indeed.
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