Oct 13, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 9 segments
You know the famous first line, but did you also know Pride & Prejudice has a killer entire first chapter, which is almost entirely dialogue? Bri and Mer use Jane’s brilliance to chat about all the…
Meredith HambrockHost
Brianna LabuskesHostYes, this is a chapter that I feel like people always talk about the first line of Pride and Prejudice.
Like that's the thing that they, I feel like just, I mean, outside of just people being absolutely obsessed with this novel and all of its like film adaptations and TV adaptations, people are all obsessed with the first line.
And then we'll just talk about dialogue a bit and some of our hot takes about writing dialogue.
chapter one it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in one of a wife however little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters my dear mr bennett
Do not you want to tell me, sorry, do not you want to know who has taken it? Cried his wife impatiently.
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England and that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately that he is to take possession before Michael Miss and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
Yes, this is a chapter that I feel like people always talk about the first line of Pride and Prejudice.
Like that's the thing that they, I feel like just, I mean, outside of just people being absolutely obsessed with this novel and all of its like film adaptations and TV adaptations, people are all obsessed with the first line.
And then we'll just talk about dialogue a bit and some of our hot takes about writing dialogue.
chapter one it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in one of a wife however little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters my dear mr bennett
Do not you want to tell me, sorry, do not you want to know who has taken it? Cried his wife impatiently.
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England and that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately that he is to take possession before Michael Miss and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
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