Pride but no prejudice: U.K. celebrates Jane Austen's 250th anniversary

CHAWTON, England — By the time she died at just 41, Jane Austen had penned six books that would revolutionize the English novel and created a cultural phenomenon that lasts to this day. Her most famous book, “Pride and Prejudice,” has sold millions of copies, and the story of the tenacious Elizabeth Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy has become a fixture on school reading lists around the world, the inspiration for an almost endless stream of movie and television adaptations, not to mentio