Pride and Prejudice in 2013

Here's a thought that comes with the 200th anniversary of the printing of “Pride and Prejudice” in mind. Jane Austen only wrote six novels, which basically revolve around the love and marriage prospects of young women (eight principal heroines in the six books, plus a whole host of others). There are all sorts of other relationships described in these stories – flirting, adultery (only hinted at), seductions and skullduggery, bad marriages, unwise liaisons, secret engagements, infatuation, je...