28/01/2013
How a loan for a second-hand car can end up costing your home. Plus, 200 years to the day after it was first published, will a group of Winchester kids be too proud or too prejudiced to enjoy Jane Austen?
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Pride and Prejudice's 200th anniversary
First published by Thomas Egerton in 1813, Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen's second novel.
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She described it as her "own darling child".
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Now Pride and Prejudice has reached the venerable age of 200.
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about the novel on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News website.Μύ
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Jane Austen fact file
- (1775-1817) was one of eight children in a close-knit family
- Born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire
- In 1801 the family moved to Bath
- After the death of her father, the family moved several times, eventually settling in Chawton, Hampshire
- Her brother Henry negotiated with a publisher for her first novel, Sense and Sensibility
- She described her next, Pride and Prejudice, as her "own darling child"
- In 1816 Austen began to suffer from ill-health, thought to be . She died in Winchester a year later, aged 41
- Her legacy was six celebrated novels, which offered insight into the lives of middle- and upper-class women in the early 19th Century
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Source: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ History
Car loan debts
A Hampshire widow was chased for a Β£97,000 debt which had grown from a Β£3,600 car loan originally taken out by her late husband.
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Brenda Caines, from Warsash, faced losing her home over a loan agreement for a 1998 Vauxhall Vectra with Yes Car Credit.
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on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News website.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Director | Jane Goddard |
| Series Producer | Jane French |
Broadcast
- Mon 28 Jan 2013 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One South & Oxfordshire only