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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
janeaustenwasbornon16December1775atSteventonnear
Basingstoke,theseventhchildoftherectoroftheparish.Shelived
withherfamilyatSteventonuntiltheymovedtoBathwhenher
fatherretiredin1801.Afterhisdeathin1805,shemovedaround
with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton,
Hampshire.Heresheremained,exceptforafewvisitstoLondon,
untilinMay1817shemovedtoWinchestertobenearherdoctor.
Thereshediedon18July1817.
Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius,
describingherworktohernephew,Edward,as‘thelittlebit(two
inches wide) of ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush, as
produceslittleeffectaftermuchlabour’.Asagirlshewrotestories,
includingburlesquesofpopularromances.Herworkswerepub-
lished only after much revision, four novels being published in
her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and
Prejudice(1813),MansfieldPark(1814)andEmma(1815).Two
othernovels,NorthangerAbbeyandPersuasion,werepublished
posthumouslyin1818withabiographicalnoticebyherbrother,
Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her author-
ship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in
1815–16.Shealsolefttwoearliercompositions,ashortepistolary
novel,LadySusan,andanunfinishednovel,TheWatsons.Atthe
timeofherdeath,shewasworkingonanewnovel,Sanditon,a
fragmentarydraftofwhichsurvives.
vivienjonesisaSeniorLecturerinEnglishattheUniversityof
Leeds.ShehaspublishedbooksonHenryJamesandJaneAusten,
and her publications on gender and writing in the eighteenth
centuryincludeWomenintheEighteenthCentury:Constructions
ofFemininity(1990)andWomenandLiteratureinBritain1700–
1800(2000),aswellasnumerousarticles.ShehaseditedFrances
Burney’sEvelinaforOxfordWorld’sClassics.
clairelamontisTextualAdviserfortheworksofJaneAusten
inPenguinClassics.
tony tanner wasaFellowofKing’sCollege,Cambridge,and
ProfessorofEnglishandAmericanLiteratureattheUniversityof
Cambridge. He taught and travelled extensively in America and
Europe.AmonghismanybooksareTheReignofWonder(1965);
CityofWords(1970);ContractandTransgression:Adulteryand
theNovel(1980);JaneAusten(1986);ScenesofNature,Signsof
Men(1987);VeniceDesired(1992);HenryJamesandtheArtof
Non-Fiction (1995); and The American Mystery (2000). Tony
TannerdiedinDecember1998.
jane austen
Pride and Prejudice
EditedwithanIntroductionandNotesby
vivien jones
WiththeoriginalPenguinClassicsIntroductionby
tony tanner
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Firstpublished1813
PublishedinPenguinClassics1996
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
ThePenguinEditionofthe
NovelsofJaneAusten vii
Chronology ix
Introduction xi
FurtherReading xxxvii
NoteontheText xl
PrideandPrejudice
VolumeOne 3
VolumeTwo 129
VolumeThree 233
Appendix:OriginalPenguin
ClassicsIntroductionby
TonyTanner 368
EmendationstotheText 409
Notes 412
Acknowledgements
I want to thank John Barnard, Paul Hammond, Rick Jones,
AngelaKeane,DavidLindley,OliverPickering,SusanSpearey,
AndrewWawnandJohnWhalefortheirhelpinpreparingthis
edition. It was completed during study leave funded by the
Humanities Research Board of the British Academy, and I am
grateful for research time, both to them and to the School of
English,UniversityofLeeds.
VivienJones
June1995
The Penguin Edition of the
Novels of Jane Austen
The texts of Austen’s novels in the Penguin Edition are based
on the first editions and have been edited afresh. The texts of
four of the novels are necessarily based on the first edition: in
thecaseofPrideandPrejudiceAustensoldthecopyrighttothe
publisher of the first edition and was not involved with the
preparation of the two further editions in her lifetime; Emma
did not reach a second edition in Britain in Austen’s lifetime;
and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published post-
humously.SenseandSensibilityandMansfieldPark,however,
both appeared in second editions in which Austen took some
part.Hithertoallreprintsofthesenovelshavebeenbasedonthe
secondeditions.ThePenguinEditionreturnstothefirst-edition
textsofbothnovels,andincludesalistofthesubstantivevari-
antsbetweenthetwoeditionssothatreaderscanseeclearlyfor
thefirsttimethealterationsmadebetweenthefirstandsecond
editions.
The editors have worked from copies of the first editions
kindlysuppliedbytheBodleianLibrary,Oxford.Theeditorial
policy is one of minimum intervention: no attempt has been
madetomodernizespellingorpunctuation,ortorenderspell-
ingsconsistentsolongasthevariantspellingswereacceptable
in the period. Where any of these might cause difficulty to the
modernreadertheeditorhasofferedhelpandexplanationina
note.
The editors have emended the text in the following circum-
stances:errorsinspellingandpunctuationhavebeencorrected.
Where, after all allowance has been made for historical usage,
the text seems faulty the editors have cautiously emended it.
viii novels of jane austen
They have been assisted by the fact that there is a tradition
of Austen scholarship. The first edition of Austen’s novels to
examine the texts thoroughly was The Novels of Jane Austen,
edited by R. W. Chapman, 5 vols (Clarendon, 1923). This
pioneering edition was itself revised in later reprints, and all
recent editions have been either based on Chapman’s text or
acknowledgedebtstoit.TheeditorsofthePenguinEditionhave
editedAusten’stextsanewfromthefirsteditions,butinmaking
decisionsaboutobscuritiesandcruxestheyhaveborneinmind
the work of previous commentators on the Austen texts. The
greatestoftheseisR.W.Chapman,buttherehavebeenothers,
includingcriticsandgeneralreaderswhohavefromtimetotime
queriedpassagesinAusten’stextsandsuggestedemendations.
Where the Penguin editors are indebted to a previous scholar
for a particular emendation they acknowledge it, and where a
crux has provoked controversy they indicate it in a brief note.
All corrections to the text other than any which are purely
typographicalarerecordedinthe‘EmendationstotheText’.
Austen’s novels originally appeared in three volumes (with
the exception of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which
appeared together in four volumes). To make the original vol-
ume arrangements visible in a one-volume format the Penguin
Edition has headlines at the top of each page so that in any
openingtheheadlineontheleftwillgivethevolumeandchapter
number in the first edition and the headline on the right will
givethechapternumberinacontinuouslynumberedsequence.
The bibliographical basis of the Penguin Edition is David
Gilson’s Bibliography of Jane Austen (Clarendon, 1982), to
whichtheeditionishappytoacknowledgeitsdebt.
ClaireLamont
TextualAdviser
UniversityofNewcastleuponTyne
Chronology
1775 Jane Austen born on 16 December, the second daughter
and seventh child of the Revd George Austen and his wife,
Cassandra Leigh. Her father was rector of the village of
Steventon in Hampshire. The family was well-connected
althoughnotrich.Twoofherbrothersenteredthenavyand
rosetotherankofRear-Admiral.
1776AmericanDeclarationofIndependence.
1778FrancesBurneypublishedEvelina.
1785–6Austen,withhersisterCassandra,attendedtheAbbey
School,Reading.
1787Austenstartedtowritetheshort,parodicpiecesoffiction
knownasherJuvenilia.
1789FrenchRevolutionbrokeout.
1792 Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the
RightsofWoman.
1793BritainatwarwithrevolutionaryFrance.
1794AnnRadcliffepublishedTheMysteriesofUdolpho.
1795 Austen wrote ‘Elinor and Marianne’, a first version of
SenseandSensibility.
1796RiseofNapoleonBonaparteinFrance.
1796–7Austenwrote‘FirstImpressions’,afirstversionofPride
andPrejudice.
1797‘FirstImpressions’offeredtoapublisher,whorefusedit.
1798–9‘Susan’,anearlyversionofNorthangerAbbey,written.
1801Austen’sfatherretiredandthefamilymovedtoBath.
1802InFranceNapoleonappointedConsulforlife.
1802AustenacceptedaproposalofmarriagefromHarrisBigg-
Wither,butchangedhermindthefollowingday.
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1803‘Susan’soldfor£10tothepublisherCrosby,whodidnot
publishit.
1804Austenwroteunfinishednovel,‘TheWatsons’.
1805Austen’sfatherdied.BattleofTrafalgar.
1807AustenmovedwithhermotherandsistertoSouthampton.
1809 Austen moved with her mother and sister to a house in
thevillageofChawtoninHampshire,ownedbyherbrother
Edward,whichwasherhomefortherestofherlife.
1811SenseandSensibilitypublished.
1811IllnessofKingGeorgeIIIcausedthePrinceofWalestobe
appointedPrinceRegent.
1813PrideandPrejudicepublished.
1814MansfieldParkpublished.
1815 Wellington and Blu¨cher defeat French at the Battle of
Waterloo,bringingtoanendtheNapoleonicWars.
1815(December)Emmapublishedanddedicatedathisrequest
tothePrinceRegent.
1816 Austen’s health started to deteriorate; she finished Per-
suasion. ‘Susan’ bought back from Crosby. Walter Scott
reviewedEmmaflatteringlyintheQuarterlyReview.
1817JaneAustendiedon18JulyinWinchester,whereshehad
gone for medical attention, and was buried in Winchester
Cathedral.
1818HerbrotherHenryoversawthepublicationofNorthanger
Abbey and Persuasion, with a biographical notice of the
writer.