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Distraught, Elizabeth is then met by Darcy, who surprisingly proposes marriage, declaring his ardent love despite her inferior rank.

Readers are poised to question whether or not these single men need a wife, or if the need is dictated by the "neighbourhood" families and their daughters who require a "good fortune".

Foreign language translations first appeared in 1813 in French; subsequent translations were published in German, Danish, and Swedish.

"Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen: 'Rape' and 'Love' as Feminist Social Realism and Romance".

"The learning curve, while undergone by both protagonists, is disclosed to us solely through Elizabeth's point of view and her free indirect speech is essential.

In comparison to the popular , which featured and , producer desired to make an adaptation that "doesn't conform to the television drama stereotypes of a perfect clean Regency world".

" In another review, magazine lamented the absence of Austen's "brilliant sense of irony", remarking that the film's "romantic melodrama's played up at the expense of her razor-sharp wit.

" In her "feisty, impassioned" interactions with Darcy and "rebellious refusal to 'perform'" for Lady Catherine, Stewart-Beer sees Knightley's depiction as "far removed from Austen's original Elizabeth, who has a greater sense of grounded maturity, even though both Elizabeths have an occasional inclination to fluster, fun and giggles.

Her wealth which she overspends and her expensive education seem to be the two greatest sources of Miss Bingley's and ; likewise, she is very insecure about the fact that her and her family's money all comes from trade, and is eager both for her brother to purchase an estate, ascending the Bingleys to the ranks of the gentry, and for herself to marry a landed gentleman i.

Clarice Swisher, San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999.

Camden, Jen; Ford, Susan Allen Summer 2007.