Episode 1 of 3
Austen begins First Impressions
- When
- October 1796
- Where
- unspecified location of Austen's writing
In October 1796 Jane Austen began a second novel, First Impressions, later published as Pride and Prejudice.
Austen started the novel after a stay at Goodnestone Park in Kent with her brother Edward and his wife in 1796. The work was written between October 1796 and August 1797 under its original title First Impressions. The supplied passages do not state a specific day or the village of Steventon for the start of composition, so the location is left unresolved.
Sources
- Pride and Prejudice Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
- Jane Austen Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.