What title did Jane Austen originally give Pride and Prejudice?

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Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in period costumes stand outdoors in a scene from the 1995 television series Pride and Prejudice. — Pride and Prejudice Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC TV miniseries *Pride and Prejudice* (1995).

Jane Austen originally titled her famous novel First Impressions.12

She completed the first version of the work between 1796 and 1797, but an initial attempt to have it published was declined by a publisher. After settling in Chawton in 1809, Austen revised the manuscript and eventually published it under the title Pride and Prejudice in 1813.2