Pride and Prejudice was the original porn for women. In Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen created a woman, in a time where women were valued for their trousseaus and face powder, whose spunk and wit would turn heads even today.
What amazes me most about Elizabeth is how she overcame her upbringing to become a woman so ahead of her time. While her mom and most of her sisters had a one track mind-marriage and money-she somehow embodied the values that weren't common place until more than 100 years later. Truly, a testament to Austen herself.
It's a love story about loving someone for who they are and what they stand for, in a time where love was about beauty, submission and riches.
The stories of the free thinking woman with a big mouth finding love with someone she originally despises are a dime a dozen today. But this was the first, the source of the hatred- turned- sexual- tension and woman-falling-in-love-without-losing-herself stories that we can't seem to get enough of.
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