Pride and Prejudice

Robert P. Irvine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Austen and Her Time: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Map
Pride and Prejudice
Appendix A: From the Juvenilia (1792–93)

1. From Volume the First: “The Three Sisters”
2. From Volume the Second: “From a young Lady in distress’d Circumstances to her freind”

Appendix B: From Austen’s Letters to Her Sister Cassandra

1. To Cassandra Austen, 8–9 January 1799
2. To Cassandra Austen, 11 June 1799
3. To Cassandra Austen, 29 January 1813
4. To Cassandra Austen, 4 February 1813

Appendix C: Contemporary Periodical Reviews of Pride and Prejudice

1. British Critic (February 1813)
2. From Critical Review (March 1813)

Appendix D: From the Conduct Books

1. From James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women (1766)
2. From Dr. John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters (1774)

Appendix E: Domestic Tourism

1. From William Watts, The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry (1779)
2. From William Bray, Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire (1777)

Appendix F: Burke on the French Revolution

1. From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Appendix G: Discussion of Women’s Role after the French Revolution

1. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
2. From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)

Appendix H: The Militia Regiments on the South Coast of England in 1793–95

1. Women at the Brighton Camp, from The Sussex Weekly Advertiser (1793, 1795)
2. The Mutiny of the Oxfordshire Militia, from The Sussex Weekly Advertiser (1795)


Works Cited and Select Bibliography