Pride and Prejudice, first published on January 28, 1813, is one of Jane Austen’s novels, and is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where she lived in the rectory. Called First Impressions, it was never published under that title, and in following revisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice.
Austen’s father wrote to London bookseller Thomas Cadell offering it for publication, but it was rejected unseen by return of post. Buoyed by the release of her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, Austen revised the manuscript for First Impressions, probably between 1811 and 1812. She renamed the story Pride and Prejudice, an “apparent cliché” of the times.
In the years between the completion of First Impressions and its revision into Pride and Prejudice, two other works had been published under that name. Austen sold the copyright for the novel to Thomas Edgerton in exchange for 110 pounds. Austen had published Sense and Sensibility on a commission basis, whereby she indemnified the publisher against any losses and received any profits. Unaware that the book would sell out its edition, she passed the copying to Edgerton for a one-off payment for Pride and Prejudice. He made a substantial profit.
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