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Why Bridget Jones’s Diary is more Pride and Prejudice than it Looks: A Gen-Z Review.

Bridget Jones’s Diary could easily win the “ultimate early 2000s rom-com” award, if there was one. Alcohol, cigarettes, a flat in London, mini skirts, and a job in publishing… Can it get further from the early Regency era of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? And yet, beneath the hangovers, the messy apartment and the questionable…

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