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When did Jane Austen complete the first version of 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 completed the first version of her novel Pride and Prejudice, which was originally titled First Impressions, between October 1796 and August 1797.12