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Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the beautiful, kind and good-natured Jane Bennet.In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Rosamund Pike (2005), Susannah Harker (1995), Sabina Franklyn (1980), Maureen O’Sullivan(1940) and Morven Christie (lost in Austen).

Mary Bennet has neither taste nor talent, and also has the unhappy distinction of being the only plain one of the Bennet family. She is well-read and works harder than her siblings for her accomplishments. Nevertheless, she lacks Lizzy’s charm at the piano and cannot match Elizabeth’s wit in conversation. Her performance at the piano [...]

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the vexing but also adorable Mr Bennet. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Donald Sutherland (2005), Benjamin Whitrow (1995), Moray Watson (1980), Edmund Gwenn (1940) and Hugh Bonneville (lost in Austen).

Keira Knightley has an unrivaled ability (for an actor, anyway) to polarize opinion. She is the marmite of the movie industry. While her fans are of course everywhere, I always seem to be bumping into people who can’t stand her, or stumbling onto critical forum posts about Ms Knightley that reflect a toxic mixture of [...]

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the ‘oddity’ that is Mr Collins. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Tom Hollander (2005), David Bamber (1995), Malcolm Rennie(1980), Melville Cooper (1940) and Guy Henry (Lost in Austen).

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Pride and Prejudice 1940 is primarily a wartime comedy, seeped in 1940s glamour and star quality, and only secondarily an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Having written the dystopian novel Brave New World, screenwriter and novelist Aldous Huxley showed that he’s nothing if [...]