“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

In keeping with the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’, I thought I might post the occasional favorite quote from that work over at least the next month or so, and here in accompaniment is a favorite painting from Edmund Blair Leighton, a Pre-Raphaelite artist.