![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bridget eventually finds love with aloof lawyer Mark Darcy, who of course was played by Firth in the film of the novel. She also describes how much she leaned on the plot of Pride and Prejudice, as in 1995 it seemed the whole country was watching the BBC adaptation with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy. Helen says in Bookclub that she honestly expected the column would be axed after six weeks for being too silly. Refusing to use her own byline, Helen’s column chronicled the life and antics of fictional Bridget Jones as a thirty-something single woman in London trying to make sense of life and love - and was published as a novel in 1996. Bridget has now become an iconic figure in modern fiction.īridget Jones started life as a weekly column in the pages of The Independent in 1995, when Fielding worked on the news desk. To mark Bookclub's 21st birthday Helen Fielding talks about her creation Bridget Jones, with the first novel in the series, Bridget Jones's Diary. ![]()
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