The plot of the first novel is loosely based on pride and prejudice.īridget Jones is a Bangor University graduate. Plot summary Original column and novelizations "Bridget Jones" is hailed as a British cultural icon and was named on the 2016 Woman's Hour Power List as one of seven women judged to have had the biggest impact on women's lives over the past 70 years. Helen Fielding released a third novel in 2013 ( Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which is set 14 years after the events of the second novel) and a fourth in 2016 ( Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries, where Bridget finds herself unexpectedly pregnant without being certain who the father is). After Fielding had ceased to work for The Daily Telegraph in late 1998, the feature began again in The Independent on 4 August 2005 and finished in June 2006. Fielding published the novelisation of the column in 1996, followed by a sequel in 1999 called The Edge of Reason.īoth novels were adapted for film in 20, starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, and Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the men in her life: Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, respectively.
The column was, in fact, a lampoon of women's obsession with love, marriage and romance as well as women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider social trends in Britain at the time. Thus, it seemed to be an actual personal diary chronicling the life of Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life, love, and relationships with the help of a surrogate "urban family" of friends in the 1990s. Jones first appeared in Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary column in The Independent in 1995, which did not carry any byline. Bridget Jonesīridget Jones is a fictional character created by British writer Helen Fielding. For other people with this name, see Bridget Jones (disambiguation). This article is about the fictional character.