Though the novel was generally well-received, garnering favorable reviews with noted critic George Henry Lewes and even the future wife of Lord Byron, who called it 鈥渢he fashionable novel,鈥� not everyone loved 鈥淧ride and Prejudice.鈥� In a letter to Lewes, Charlotte Bronte called the novel 鈥渁 carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but... no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck.鈥� The biggest surprise? Even Austen herself dismissed the novel as 鈥渞ather too light, and bright, and sparkling.鈥�
