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Thomas Egerton was a bookseller and publisher in Whitehall, London c. 1750 –1830. With his brother and business partner John Egerton he took over the enterprise established by John Millan. For some years Egerton's office stood on Charing Cross. Books published included works by Jane Austen.
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Thomas Egerton may refer to: Thomas Egerton (mercer) (by...
- Thomas Egerton
Thomas Egerton nacque nel Cheshire nel 1540, figlio illegittimo di Richard Egerton e di una donna nubile di nome Alice Sparks. Fu riconosciuto dal padre, che finanziò la sua istruzione facendolo studiare presso il Brasenose College di Oxford, dove conseguì il baccellierato nel 1559. Successivamente studiò legge presso il Lincoln's Inn e ...
Thomas Egerton may refer to: Thomas Egerton (mercer) (by 1521–c. 1597), Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint. Thomas Egerton (killed 1599) (1574–1599), MP for Cheshire. Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540–1617), Lord Keeper 1596–1616. Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton (1749–1814)
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In the early 19th century, the Bennet family live at their Longbourn estate, situated near the village of Meryton in Hertfordshire, England. Mrs Bennet's greatest desire is to marry off her five daughters to secure their futures. The arrival of Mr Bingley, a rich bachelor who rents the neighbouring Netherfield estate, gives her hope that one of her...
Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy – Mr Bingley's (infra) friend and the wealthy owner of the estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire, said to be worth at least £10,000 a year. Although he is handsome, tall, and intel...Mr Bennet – A logical and reasonable late-middle-aged landed gentleman of a more modest income of £2,000 per annum, and the dryly sarcastic patriarch of the Bennet family, with five unmarried daugh...Mrs Bennet (née Gardiner) – the middle-aged wife of Mr Bennet, and the mother of their five daughters. Mrs Bennet is a hypochondriac who imagines herself susceptible to attacks of tremors and palpi...Many critics take the title as the start when analysing the themes of Pride and Prejudice but Robert Fox cautions against reading too much into the title (which was initially First Impressions), because commercial factors may have played a role in its selection. "After the success of Sense and Sensibility, nothing would have seemed more natural tha...
Pride and Prejudice, like most of Austen's works, employs the narrative technique of free indirect speech, which has been defined as "the free representation of a character's speech, by which one means, not words actually spoken by a character, but the words that typify the character's thoughts, or the way the character would think or speak, if she...
Austen began writing the novel after staying at Goodnestone Park in Kent with her brother Edward and his wife in 1796. It was originally titled First Impressions, and was written between October 1796 and August 1797.On 1 November 1797 Austen's father sent a letter to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he had any interest in seeing the manusc...
Austen sold the copyright for the novel to Thomas Egerton from the Military Library, Whitehall in exchange for £110 (Austen had asked for £150). This proved a costly decision. Austen had published Sense and Sensibility on a commission basis, whereby she indemnified the publisher against any losses and received any profits, less costs and the publis...
19th century
The novel was well received, with three favourable reviews in the first months following publication. Anne Isabella Milbanke, later to be the wife of Lord Byron, called it "the fashionable novel". Noted critic and reviewer George Henry Lewes declared that he "would rather have written Pride and Prejudice, or Tom Jones, than any of the Waverley Novels". Throughout the 19th century, not all reviews of the work were positive. Charlotte Brontë, in a letter to Lewes, wrote that Pride and Prejudice...
20th century
The American scholar Claudia L. Johnson defended the novel from the criticism that it has an unrealistic fairy-tale quality. One critic, Mary Poovey, wrote that the "romantic conclusion" of Pride and Prejudice is an attempt to hedge the conflict between the "individualistic perspective inherent in the bourgeois value system and the authoritarian hierarchy retained from traditional, paternalistic society". Johnson wrote that Austen's view of a power structure capable of reformation was not an...
21st century
1. In 2003 the BBC conducted a poll for the "UK's Best-Loved Book" in which Pride and Prejudice came second, behind The Lord of the Rings. 2. In a 2008 survey of more than 15,000 Australian readers, Pride and Prejudicecame first in a list of the 101 best books ever written. 3. The 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice on 28 January 2013 was celebrated around the globe by media networks such as the Huffington Post, The New York Times, and The Daily Telegraph, among others.
Film, television and theatre
Numerous screen adaptations have contributed in popularising Pride and Prejudice. The first television adaptation of the novel, written by Michael Barry, was produced in 1938 by the BBC. It is a lost television broadcast. Some of the notable film versions include the 1940 Academy Award-winning film, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based in part on Helen Jerome's 1935 stage adaptation) and that of 2005, starring Keira Knightley (an Oscar-nominated performance) and Matthew Macfadyen...
Literature
The novel has inspired a number of other works that are not direct adaptations. Books inspired by Pride and Prejudiceinclude the following: 1. Mr Darcy's Daughters and The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston 2. Darcy's Story (a best seller) and Dialogue with Darcyby Janet Aylmer 3. Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued and An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later by Emma Tennant 4. The Book of Ruth by Helen Baker 5. Jane Austen Ruined M...
Media related to Pride and Prejudiceat Wikimedia CommonsPride and Prejudice at Standard EbooksPride and Prejudice (Chapman edition) at Project GutenbergPride and Prejudice public domain audiobook at LibriVoxPublication history. The three volumes of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility, 1811. In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London accepted the manuscript for publication in three volumes. Austen paid to have the book published and paid the publisher a commission on sales.
Mansfield Park at Wikisource. Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.
19 dic 2020 · Thomas Egerton had issued Sense and Sensibility two years earlier, although his name does not appear until the second edition of 1813. He had entered the trade in the early 1780s, acting for the first decade in partnership with his brother John (d.1794/5), and then succeeding to the shop, business and predominantly military list of the bookseller John Millan, who had published the Army lists.
