Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman livi
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"Chick lit" is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers, with numerous writers and cr
Bridget Jones's Diary (novel)
…relationships. By 2006, the book had sold over two million copies worldwide. Critics have credited Fielding's novel as the "urtext" of the contemporary chick lit movement. A sequel, The Edge of Reason, was published in 1999, and two further novels, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones's Baby, were…
Author Terry McMillan, in 2008. McMillan's 1992 novel Waiting to Exhale predated the chick-lit label but, in its focus on the lives of a group of 30-something single women professionals, has been identified as a key precursor of the category