What If Pride and Prejudice Was a Autobiographical Webseries? Introducing: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

At the opening of her first video, this 24 year old grad student named Lizzie Bennet explains that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Or at least it is according to the pink t-shirts her mother gave her and her two sisters last year for Christmas. Yes, in true meta inversion, this is a world where Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice finds Bridget Jones’ Diary to be a dirty pleasure. Part one, of four and counting, is above. More below.

And it’s not just Ashley Clements, Rachel Kiley, Margaret Dunlap, Laura Spencer, Julia Cho, and Mary Kate Wiles and a whole host of people producing, writing and acting… the crux of the series is to present Lizzie as a reality, with a host of social media in her voice as well. The meta… I find it irresistible.

Oh, and if you’re wondering where Elizabeth Bennet’s other two canonical sisters are, head writer Bernie Su explains.

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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