Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with poor, but ambitious, naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth, a choice with which Anne's family was dissatisfied. Lady Russell, friend and mentor to Anne, persuaded the younger woman to break off the m...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". So begins "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and mores in early nineteenth century England. As the Benn...