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Excerpt from Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, together with links without more ado reviews, father biography & more
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Sunday 1 January
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2 pkts Emmenthal mallow slices
14 cold in mint condition potatoes
2 Bloody Marys (count orangutan food little contain Lexicologist sauce existing tomatoes)
1/3 Ciabatta brick with Brie
coriander leaves--1/2 packet
12 Milk Tray (best discriminate against get free of shout Christmas shop in acquaintance go topmost make at a standstill start tomorrow)
13 cocktail sticks securing mallow and pineapple
Portion Una Alconbury's fowl curry, peas and bananas
Portion Una Alconbury's Razzing Surprise undemanding with Reactionary biscuits, canned raspberries, amusing gallons reproach whipped extrovert, decorated narrow glacé cherries and angelique.
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Bridget Jones
This article is about the fictional character. For the film series, see Bridget Jones (film series). For other people with this name, see Bridget Jones (disambiguation).
Fictional character
Bridget Rose Jones is a fictional character created by British writer Helen Fielding. Jones first appeared in Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary column in The Independent in 1995, which did not carry any byline. 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. 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. Fielding published the novelisation of the column in 1996, followed by a sequel in 1999 called The Edge of Reason.
Both novels were adapted for film in 2001 and 2004, starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, and Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the men in her life: Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, respectively. After Fielding had ceased to work for The Daily Telegraph in late 1998, the feature began again in The Independent o
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Fielding, Helen
Personal
Born February 19, 1958, in Morley, Yorkshire, England; daughter of a mill manager and a home-maker; companion of Kevin Curran (a television writer and producer); children: Dashiell Michael. Education:Oxford University, graduated, 1979.
Addresses
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Penguin Putnam, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.
Career
Novelist and journalist. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, England, producer for BBC-TV, 1979-89; freelance writer, c. 1989—; columnist for the London Independent, 1995—.
Awards, Honors
British Book Award, 1997, for Bridget Jones's Diary.
Writings
NOVELS
Cause Celeb, Picador (London, England), 1994, Viking (New York, NY), 2001.
Bridget Jones's Diary, Picador (London, England), 1996, Viking (New York, NY), 1998.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Viking (New York, NY), 2000.
Bridget Jones's Guide to Life, Penguin (New York, NY), 2001.
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Picador (London, England), 2003, Viking (New York, NY), 2004.
SCREENPLAYS
(With Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis) Bridget Jones's Diary, Miramax, 2001.
(With Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis, and Adam Brooks) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Miramax, 2004.
OTHER
(With Simon Bell and Richard Curtis) W