Abstract
Andrew Davies’s six-part adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, was transmitted on BBC-1 during the autumn of 1995.1 The germ of this production was planted in 1986 at a preview of Northanger Abbey. Andrew Davies and Sue Birtwistle were sitting together. She turned to him and said:
I know what I’d like to do: Pride and Prejudice and make it look like a fresh, lively story about real people. And make it clear that, though it’s about many things, it’s principally about sex and it’s about money: those are the driving motives of the plot. Would you like to adapt it?
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Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin: The Making of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, Penguin Books, BBC Books 1995, p. v.
A.D. Harvey: Sex in Georgian England, Duckworth 1994, pp. 22–3.
Rosemary Hawthorne: Knickers: An Intimate Appraisal, Souvenir Press 1991, pp. 11–13.
George Hanger: The Life, Adventures and Opinions of Colonel George Hanger, William Combe 1801, pp. 17–18
William Hickey: Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, edited by Roger Hudson, Folio Society 1995, p. 12.
See Maggie Lane: fane Austen’s World, Carlton 1996, pp. 54–5.
See Steven Marcus: ‘Language into Structure: “Pickwick Papers” Revisited’, in Daedalus, number 101, 1972.
David Nokes: ‘It Isn’t in the Book’, Times Literary Supplement 26 April 1996.
Kate Lock: ‘Its Austenmania’, Radio Times, 13 July 1996.
See Robin Nelson: TV Drama in Transition: Forms, Values and Cultural Change, Manchester: Manchester University Press 1997, p. 125.
Jon E. Lewis and Penny Stempel: The Ultimate TV Guide, Orion 1999, p. 80.
Desmond Christy: ‘Jane’s Fighting Clips’ in Guardian 23 November 1994
See Allison Pearson: ‘Pride and Prejudice Down the Ages’, Observer 12 October 1995
Lucy Ellman: ‘I Can No Longer Contain Myself’, New Statesman Society 20 October 1995
Fay Weldon: ’star of Stage and Screen’ Guardian 12 April 1995
Andrew Culf: ‘TV and Film Vie Genteelly for Jane Austen Blockbuster’, Guardian 13 October 1995
Catherine Bennett: ‘Hype and Heritage’ Guardian 22 October 1995
Keith Thomas: ‘Retrochic’ London Review of Books 20 April 1995
Andrew Culf: ‘Pride Wins Over Prejudice’ Guardian 13 March 1996
Dan Glaister: ‘Film Locations Make Most of Period Charm’, Guardian 21 May 1996
and Maev Kennedy: ‘Darcy’s Pride Fuels Record’ in History Tours 6.
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Giddings, R., Selby, K. (2001). The ‘Pride and Prejudice Factor’. In: The Classic Serial on Television and Radio. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596290_5
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