![]() ![]() The publisher refused without ever having seen the manuscript.įortunately for all of her admirers, whether Austen was discouraged or not by her first rejection, she continued to write though, it was not until the winter of 1811, fully fourteen years after finishing First Impressions, that she again picked up that manuscript and began revising it into the version we know today as Pride and Prejudice. Three months after Miss Austen completed work on the book, her father offered it to a publisher in the hope that it would make it into print. ![]() No copy of that original is known to exist. Little is known of this early version of the story beyond its original title: First Impressions. Jane Austen began writing the novel which later became Pride and Prejudice in October of 1796 and finished it by August of the following year she was then twenty-one years old. ![]()
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