Which Jane Austen novel was originally titled First Impressions?

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Portrait of Jane Austen seated, wearing a light blue dress and bonnet, holding a closed book on her lap with a thoughtful expression. — Jane Austen Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.

The Jane Austen novel that was originally titled First Impressions is Pride and Prejudice.12

Austen completed the first version of the work between October 1796 and August 1797, though it was not published until January 1813. While her father initially attempted to secure a publisher for the manuscript in 1797, the offer was declined, and Austen later revised the novel while living in Chawton before its eventual publication.2