prejudice
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In Pride and Prejudice and its various screen adaptations, Mrs Bennet is portrayed as stressed, emotional, and fixated on marrying off her five daughters.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
And for horror-loving Austen fans, there’s always “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” a 2009 mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith featuring a fictional zombie plague set in the Regency era.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
Prejudice is not merely a matter of sentiment; it is shaped by the norms that a society chooses to reinforce or neglect.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025
Appeared in the September 29, 2025, print edition as 'Pictures Without Prejudice'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025
I read Gray’s “Elegy” again, and when I finished that he asked me not to stop, so I read the beginning of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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