That first line of Pride and Prejudice - funny and, at the same time, the painful truth behind the whole novel. Mr Collins - ”an odious, charmless little toad of a man“; Elizabeth Bennet - “she will never be told that she's not as good as anyone else; Fitzwilliam Darcy - “one of Austen's strange, silent types”... “he needs fixing”... but he's “the only person who sees Lizzy”. We know them from Jane Austen's classic novel, and the screen and stage adaptations that brought it to new fans. But what