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Bridget Jones is a fictional character created by English writer Helen Fielding.

In the mid-nineties, Charles Leadbeater, at the time the features editor of the English newspaper The Independent, offered Helen Fielding, then a journalist on The Independent on Sunday, a weekly column about urban life in London designed to appeal to young professional women. Fielding accepted and Bridget Jones was born on 28 February 1995[1]. The instantaneous popularity of the columns led to publication of the first book, Bridget Jones's Diary, in 1996.

They chronicled the life of Bridget Jones, a thirtysomething single woman living in London, surrounded by a surrogate "urban family" of friends as she tries to make sense of life and love in the 1990s. The column lampooned the obsession of women with women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider societal trends in Britain at the time.