style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">This year marks the bicentenary of one of our most beloved novels, Pride and Prejudice. Most of us know the story: Mr and Mrs Bennet have no son and heir, but five daughters to dispose of in the uncompromising Georgian marriage market. The problem is that the sisters are without “family, connections, or fortune”. The heroine is the second sister, Elizabeth, who, despite her lack of dowry and status, finds a worthy (and wealthy) husband in a union that promises to be one of intellectual companionship and equality. Elizabeth is a new and very modern heroine who succeeds by dint of her charm and wit, and not by how much money she has inherited.