The 200th anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Jane Austen, John F Kennedy and Osama bin Laden are all thought to have been affected.
First published by Thomas Egerton in 1813, Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen's second novel.
Nobody else quite does this, and no other book of Jane Austen's does it either.
After all, Jane Austen wrote her gothic parody, Northanger Abbey, almost 200 years ago.
Ah well, critics can be wrong, as Jane Austen's innumerable, adoring fans would happily testify.
Jane Austen's sister, Cassandra, destroyed all the letters she and Jane had exchanged.
It also influenced some of the biggest names in literature, such as Jane Austen and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
"We have fewer details about Jane Austen's life than we do about Shakespeare or Chaucer, " he says.
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The Jane Austen Centre has about 60, 000 visitors per year, and an estimated 80% of them are women.
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire in 1775 and died, at the age of 41, in 1817 in Winchester.
The area also includes the site of Jane Austen's school and Reading Gaol.
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"Jane Austen said that every woman wants to find their Darcy, " says Chadha.
In July Jane Austen devotees will visit such sites as the Vyne, a 16th-century English estate where Austen attended balls.
So many people have written about Jane Austen that there might seem to be no room for yet another life.
Crime writer PD James is to publish a novel that puts murder at the heart of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Maybe Austen was simply very shrewd in her choice of subject, says Gill Hornby, author of Jane Austen: The Girl with the Magic Pen.
It was due to be named "Pies and Prejudice" in honour of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's novel.
Forget the usual discussions about quantum theory or the novels of Jane Austen and stick to just two questions: are you local?
This comedic play is like a dramatic fruit salad of Jane Austen.
Yet, like a Jane Austen heroine sworn to resist a seducer's overtures, none of these gentlemen seem to be in LSE's books.
But it's a pivot away from "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, " which Mr. Grahame-Smith created by grafting zombie scenes into Jane Austen's text.
It is a truth less than universally acknowledged that in addition to six beloved society novels, Jane Austen wrote part of a seventh.
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Movies with literary ties inevitably inspire high-end book-giving amongst film people, and Heritage has done a thriving business in Ian Fleming, Jane Austen, J.
Dressing in period costume is a key part of the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath, where the writer lived from 1801 to 1806.
It is not the first time that supernatural romances have seduced female audiences--Jane Austen parodied the genre's peddling of terror as titillation in Northanger Abbey.
Many also admit to wrongly claiming to have read the classics, including authors Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.
There was a very real possibility of Jane Austen's rare manuscript being sold to a foreign buyer who might well have then taken it abroad.
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