Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names.

Just two days after the BBC announced a Pride And Prejudice spinoff called The Other Bennet Sister about, well, the other Bennet sister (the “awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts” Mary, in this ...