I openly admit that I have stolen this post from my dear friend, Abigail Reynolds. One may see the whole post at http://austenauthors.net.

Today marks the debut of the Pride & Prejudice 200th anniversary project at Austen Authors. No, it’s not the anniversary of the publication of Pride & Prejudice – we have to wait until 2113 for that. P&P200 is something else entirely. It’s a real-time celebration of the 200th anniversary of the events in Pride & Prejudice. What, you hadn’t realized that 200 years ago today, Mr. Bingley was viewing Netherfield Park with an eye toward letting it? Or that November 26 will be the 200th anniversary of the Netherfield Ball?

Over the next 16 months, various Austen Authors will be taking a new look at the events of Pride & Prejudice. Sometimes it may be a scene that isn’t shown in the original, like Lady Catherine advising Mr. Collins to find a wife; sometimes it’ll be an existing scene through the eyes of a different character, like the Meryton Assembly from Louisa Hurst’s point of view. Sometimes you’ll even get multiple points of view for the same event! We’ll be presenting everything from brief glimpses to full scenes and short stories; some authors will stick with one character throughout the story while others will jump around. Many different authors are involved, so the scenes may not always be consistent with one another, but they’ll always be consistent with Pride & Prejudice.

We’ll be posting the scenes here at Austen Authors as they occur. When an event in P&P doesn’t have a specific date, we’ll post on Sundays if possible, but any day of the week could be a P&P200 day at Austen Authors. On days other than Sunday, P&P200 posts will follow the main daily post. At the end of each month, we’ll gather all the P&P200 bits and post them together in The Writer’s Block.

Today at Austen Authors check out Bingley’s first views of Netherfield Park. Heather Rigaud and Abigail Reynolds offer two different points of view.