A date with Darcy

By Helen Garner
Updated January 19 2013 - 12:18am, first published January 18 2013 - 11:59pm

IT'S two centuries this year since Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published. You'd need to have spent your life in a cave not to know about Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, the ill-natured, land-owning uber-spunk; Miss Elizabeth Bennet, sharp as a tack with a will of her own; her skewed array of sisters; her disengaged, ironic father; and her insufferable mother, the archetypal 19th-century airhead. They're part of the tissue of every literate person's mind.

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