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First published in 1813, Pride and impairment has consistently been Jane Austens most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel artless society of the day, and tells of the initial mis under(a)standings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth white avens (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted contributors) and the haughty Darcy. The designation Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first consume each other. The original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title First Impressions, and was probably in the form of an exchange of letters.Jane Austens sustain tongue-in-cheek opinion of her work, in a letter to her sister Cassandra promptly after its effect, was "Upon the whole... I am well satisfied enough. The work is preferably too light, and bright, and sparkling it wants i.e. needs shade it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something irrelevant with the story an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonapart, or some(prenominal)thing that would form a contrast and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style". In 1809 Jane Austen, her mother, sister Cassandra, and Martha Lloyd moved to Chawton, near Alton and Winchester, where her brother Edward provided a small accommodate on one of his estates. This was in Hampshire, not far from her childhood kinsfolk of Steventon. Before leaving Southampton, she corresponded with the dilatory publisher to whom she had sold Susan (i.e. Northanger Abbey), but without receiving any satisfaction.She resumed her literary activities soon after returning into Hampshire, and revised Sense and Sensibility, which was authorized in late 1810 or early 1811 by a publisher, for publication at her own risk. It appeared anonymously (&qu otBy a Lady") in October 1811, and at first only her immediate family knew of her authorship Fanny Knights daybook for September 28, 1811 records a "Letter from Aunt Cass. to beg we would not boot that Aunt Jane wrote Sense and Sensibility" and one day in 1812 when Jane Austen and Cassandra and their niece Anna were in a "circulating library" at Alton, Anna threw down a simulate of Sense and Sensibility on offer there, "exclaiming to the great enjoyment of her Aunts who stood by, "Oh that must be rubbish, I am sure from the title.