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English: An 1833 engraving of a scene from Chapter 59 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Bennet is on the left, Elizabeth on the right. This, along with File:Pickering - Greatbatch - Jane Austen - Pride_and_Prejudice - This is not to be borne, Miss Bennet.jpg, are the first published illustrations of Pride and Prejudice.
Elizabeth Bennet is shown wearing 1830's fashions (big sleeves, big skirts below a corseted narrow waist, exposed sloping shoulders) which are very different from the Empire Silhouette / Regency fashions (relatively narrow skirts, high waistline, small "puff" sleeves at the shoulders etc.) which were worn during Jane Austen's adult life.

Français : Une gravure de 1833 illustrant une scène du chapitre 59 du roman Orgueil et Préjugés de Jane Austen. À gauche M. Bennet, à droite Elizabeth. Avec File:Pickering - Greatbatch - Jane Austen - Pride_and_Prejudice - This is not to be borne, Miss Bennet.jpg, il s’agit des toutes premières illustrations de l’œuvre.

Date

1833

Source

Pride and Prejudice
A Novel
by
Jane Austen

London:
Richard Bentley.
(Successor to H. Colburn)
Cumming, Dublin, Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh
Galignani, Paris

1833.

Author

Pickering & Greatbatch

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References

↑ Janet M. Todd (2005), Jane Austen in Context, Cambridge University Press p. 127

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