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# Pride and prejudice
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/pride-and-prejudice/
- Published: 2004-12-09T21:01:03.000Z
- Updated: 2004-12-09T21:01:03.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books

*Pride and prejudice* tops fiction list:

> Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s salty-tongued commentary on the plight of women in the 19th century, perhaps best known today for providing Colin Firth with the opportunity to pose in a wet shirt in front of many grateful viewers, has won the Women’s Watershed Fiction poll, it was announced yesterday on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. \[[Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Change your life with Jane Austen](https://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1369764,00.html?gusrc=rss&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

*Pride and Prejudice* comes in at number 33 in our [Top 1000](https://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/default.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net) works in libraries, just behind *Wuthering Heights*(29) and *Jane Eyre*(30). *Persuasion*, my own favorite Austen novel is all the way back at 450.