Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 comic novel by Helen Fielding, written as the diary of a thirty-something single woman in London navigating weight, alcohol units, cigarettes, and romantic prospects.
The book spawned sequels and film adaptations.
The title has become shorthand for a certain type of self-deprecating, list-making feminine introspection: Her New Year's resolutions read like something out of Bridget Jones's Diary.
- singletonOnly member present
- inner monologueUnspoken personal narration
- LondonEngland's capital city
- chardonnayWhite wine grape variety
- knickersLoose pants to knee
Renee Zellweger · Colin Firth · Hugh Grant · Mr Darcy · romantic comedy · chick lit · calorie counting · cigarettes · embarrassment · thirtysomething · self-improvement · Pride and Prejudice · awkward · miniskirt · publishing · love triangle · fight scene · New Year's resolution
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- rom-comsrom-com, romantic comedy, romcom, Pretty Woman, meet-cute
- epistolary novelsPamela, Clarissa, Dangerous Liaisons, Julie, Dracula
- Richard CurtisNotting Hill, Love Actually, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, Comic Relief
Bridget Jones's DiaryAbout a Boy
Bachelor-child friendship tale
Swingers · The 40-Year-Old Virgin · Hitch · Forgetting Sarah Marshall · Knocked Up
Bridget Jones's DiaryRevolutionary Road
Thoroughfare named for uprising
Anna Karenina · Madame Bovary · tragic romance · Wuthering Heights
Bridget Jones's Diarypower fantasy
Fiction celebrating protagonist's dominance
Sex and the City · Emily in Paris · Gossip Girl · Dynasty · Legally Blonde