Beyond the Wedding Bells…!

Pride & Prejudice is shelved in most people’s minds as a romance book. It is the novel of a witty heroine with her gentleman, with the proposal in the rain and the happily ever after that adaptations return to again and again. Calling it a love story is not entirely wrong, but it is a way of shrinking it just to make sure it fits in the social narrative of a perfect woman. When a woman writes a novel full of brutal social critique and the world chooses to only remember the wedding bells at the e

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