Bridget Jones’s Diary (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Fielding
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: London, England
- Principal Characters: Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver, Pam Jones
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, England or English people, Popular culture, 1990’s
- Locales: London, England
Bridget Jones begins the year—and her diary—with a set of resolutions dedicated to reducing her alcohol and tobacco intake, reducing her weight, and developing inner poise and a “functional relationship with responsible adult.” This last resolution—as well as all the others, in fact—translates into finding a man. Bridget, now in her thirties, is alternately envious and contemptuous of those she refers to as the “Smug Marrieds,” but she is obsessed by a question frequently put to her by her mother and her mother’s friends: Why, at her age, is Bridget still single? Her...
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