The ten best Jane Austen characters

Paula Byrne's most recent book, published in January 2013 to mark the bicentenary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice, is an innovative biography called The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things.

She named a list of the ten best Jane Austen characters for the Observer, including:Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth is Austen’s most beloved heroine and most modern