Indeed, as Austen scholar Mary Evans noted, “If Mrs. Bennet’s nephew, who is the next male in line. Because of an entail, the modest family estate is to be inherited by William Collins, Mr. As several scholars have noted, however, Mrs. An intelligent but eccentric and sarcastic man, he does not care for society’s conventions and mocks his wife’s obsession with finding suitable husbands for their daughters.
He is fond of his two eldest daughters-especially his favourite, Elizabeth-but takes a passive interest in the younger ones, ultimately failing to curb their childish instincts. The third daughter, Mary, is plain, bookish, and pompous, while Lydia and Kitty, the two youngest, are flighty and immature. She shares her father’s distaste for the conventional views of society as to the importance of wealth and rank. Elizabeth, the heroine of the novel, is intelligent and high-spirited.
She is her sister Elizabeth’s confidant and friend. The eldest, Jane, is sweet-tempered and modest. Pride and Prejudice is set in rural England at the turn of the 19th century, and it follows the Bennet family, which includes five very different sisters. The first edition sold out within the first year, and it never went out of print. Upon publication, Pride and Prejudice was well received by critics and readers. A classic of English literature, written with incisive wit and superb character delineation, it centres on the burgeoning relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. Pride and Prejudice, romantic novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813.
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