iage at an early age, particularly with a wealthy and eligible bachelor is clearly an important theme of both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones' Diary, but it is evident that over time, the respectable age for a woman to be married at has increased drastically. In the society of Pride and Prejudice if a woman was not married by the age of twenty- five, she was considered to be past the age of possible marriage.
             One of the most obvious similarities between Bridget Jones' Diary and Pride and Prejudi
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