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In a 2008 survey of more than 15,000 Australian readers, Pride and Prejudice came first in a list of the 101 best books ever written. [48] a b Dexter, Gary (10 August 2008). "How Pride And Prejudice got its name". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 27 April 2015. Aisha based on Jane Austen's novel Emma". Indiatimes. Archived from the original on 6 September 2010 . Retrieved 11 November 2015. Emma Rewards". The Providence Phoenix. The Phoenix Media/Communications Group. 7 December 2000. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012 . Retrieved 27 December 2011. Harriet Smith, a young friend of Emma, just seventeen when the story opens, is a beautiful but unsophisticated girl. She has been a parlour boarder at a nearby school, where she met the sisters of Mr Martin. Emma takes Harriet under her wing early on, and she becomes the subject of Emma's misguided matchmaking attempts. She is revealed in the last chapter to be the natural daughter of a decent tradesman, although he is not a gentleman. Harriet and Mr Martin are wed. The now wiser Emma approves of the match.Sandra Lerner's sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Second Impressions, develops the story and imagined what might have happened to the original novel's characters. It is written in the style of Austen after extensive research into the period and language and published in 2011 under the pen name of Ava Farmer. [80] In the novel Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld sets the characters of Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Cincinnati, where the Bennet parents, erstwhile Cincinnati social climbers, have fallen on hard times. Elizabeth, a successful and independent New York journalist, and her single older sister Jane must intervene to salvage the family's financial situation and get their unemployed adult sisters to move out of the house and onward in life. In the process they encounter Chip Bingley, a young doctor and reluctant reality TV celebrity, and his medical school classmate, Fitzwilliam Darcy, a cynical neurosurgeon. [84] Alexander McCall Smith wrote a detective version, titled Emma: A Modern Retelling (2014), [93] as part of HarperCollins' six volume Austen Project. [94] World Premiere Emma Steps into TheatreWorks 8/22". BroadwayWorld.com. 17 August 2007 . Retrieved 27 December 2011.

The school is based on Reading Abbey Girls' School, which Austen and her sister attended briefly: [65]Stern, Lesley (1997). "Emma in Los Angeles: Clueless as a remake of the book and the city". Australian Humanities Review. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013 . Retrieved 12 November 2013. Elizabeth Bennet– the second-eldest of the Bennet daughters, she is attractive, witty and intelligent– but with a tendency to form tenacious and prejudiced first impressions. As the story progresses, so does her relationship with Mr Darcy. The course of Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is ultimately decided when Darcy overcomes his pride, and Elizabeth overcomes her prejudice, leading them both to surrender to their love for each other.