Editing Pride and Prejudice (section)

== Characters ==
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{{tree chart | | | | | |,| MRSH |MRSH=Mrs. Louisa Hurst}}
{{tree chart | | | MRP |!| | MRP=Mr. Philips}}
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[[File:Scenes from Pride and Prejudice.png|thumb|upright=1.6|Scenes from ''Pride and Prejudice'', by [[C. E. Brock]] (c. 1885)]]
[[File:Thomson-PP14.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth and Mr Darcy by [[Hugh Thomson]], 1894]]
* '''[[Elizabeth Bennet]]'''&nbsp;– the second-eldest of the Bennet daughters, she is attractive, witty and intelligent&nbsp;– but with a tendency to form tenacious and prejudiced first impressions. As the story progresses, so does her tumultuous relationship with Mr. Darcy. The course of Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is ultimately decided when Darcy overcomes his pride, and Elizabeth overcomes her prejudice, leading them both to surrender to their love for each other.
* '''[[Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy]]'''&nbsp;– Mr. Bingley's friend and the wealthy owner of the estate of [[Pemberley]] in Derbyshire, said to be worth at least £10,000 a year. Although he is handsome, tall, and intelligent, Darcy lacks ease and [[social graces]], so others frequently mistake his initially haughty reserve as proof of excessive pride. A new visitor to the Meryton setting of the novel, he is ultimately Elizabeth Bennet's love interest. Though he appears to be proud and is largely disliked by people for this reason, his servants vouch for his kindness and decency.
* '''[[Bennet family|Mr. Bennet]]'''&nbsp;– A logical and reasonable late-middle-aged [[landed gentleman]] of a more modest income of £2,000 per annum, and the dryly sarcastic patriarch of the [[Bennet family]], with five unmarried daughters. His estate, Longbourn, is [[entailed]] to the male line. His affection for his wife wore off early in their marriage and is now reduced to mere toleration. He is often described as 'indolent' in the novel.
* '''[[Bennet family|Mrs. Bennet]] ({{nee|Gardiner}})'''&nbsp;– the middle-aged wife of Mr. Bennet, and the mother of their five daughters. Mrs. Bennet is a [[hypochondriac]] who imagines herself susceptible to attacks of tremors and palpitations (her "poor nerves") whenever things are not going her way. She is silly, frivolous, and tactless, and is given to embarrassing her husband and older daughters. Her main ambition in life is to marry her daughters off to wealthy men. Whether or not any such matches will give her daughters happiness is of little concern to her. She was settled a [[dowry]] of £4,000 from her father.

[[File:William Blake Mrs Q 1820 engraving after Francois Huet Villiers The British Museum.jpg|right|thumb|In a letter to Cassandra dated May 1813, Jane Austen describes a picture she saw at a gallery which was a good likeness of "Mrs. Bingley" – Jane Bennet. Deirdre Le Faye in ''The World of Her Novels'' suggests that "Portrait of Mrs Q" is the picture Austen was referring to. (pp. 201–203)]]
* '''[[Bennet family|Jane Bennet]]''' – the eldest Bennet sister. She is considered the most beautiful young lady in the neighbourhood and is inclined to see only the good in others (but can be persuaded otherwise on sufficient evidence). She falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich young man recently moved to Hertfordshire and a close friend of Mr. Darcy.
* '''[[Bennet family|Mary Bennet]]'''&nbsp;– the middle Bennet sister, and the plainest of her siblings. Mary has a serious disposition and mostly reads and plays music, although she is often impatient to display her accomplishments and is rather vain about them. She frequently moralises to her family. According to James Edward Austen-Leigh's ''[[A Memoir of Jane Austen]]'', Mary ended up marrying one of her Uncle Philips' law clerks and moving into Meryton with him.
* '''[[Bennet family#Catherine "Kitty" Bennet|Catherine "Kitty" Bennet]]'''&nbsp;– the fourth Bennet daughter. Though older than Lydia, she is her shadow and follows her in her pursuit of the officers of the militia. She is often portrayed as envious of Lydia and is described as a "silly" young woman. However, it is said that she improved when removed from Lydia's influence. According to James Edward Austen-Leigh's ''A Memoir of Jane Austen'', Kitty later married a clergyman who lived near Pemberley.
* '''[[Bennet family|Lydia Bennet]]'''&nbsp;– the youngest Bennet sister. She is frivolous, headstrong, irresponsible, and spoiled, and is her mother's favorite. Her main activity in life is socialising, especially flirting with the officers of the militia. This leads to her running off with George Wickham, although he has no intention of marrying her. Lydia shows no regard for the moral code of her society; as Ashley Tauchert says, she "feels without reasoning".<ref name="Ashley Tauchert">{{cite journal |last=Tauchert |first=Ashley |title=Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen: 'Rape' and 'Love' as (Feminist) Social Realism and Romance|journal=Women |date=2003 |volume=14 |issue=2 |page=144 |doi=10.1080/09574040310107|s2cid=170233564 }}</ref>
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* '''Charles Bingley'''&nbsp;– a handsome, amiable, and wealthy young man who leases Netherfield Park with hopes of purchasing it. Though genial and well-mannered, he is easily influenced by his friend Mr. Darcy and his sisters' opinion, which leads to the disruption of his romance with Jane Bennet. He inherited a fortune of £100,000.<ref>{{cite book |last=Austen |first=Jane |title=Pride and Prejudice |date=5 August 2010 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=2 |isbn=978-0-19-278986-0}}</ref>
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* '''Caroline Bingley'''&nbsp;– the snobbish sister of Charles Bingley, with a fortune of £20,000. She harbours designs on Mr. Darcy and is jealous of his growing attachment to Elizabeth. She also disapproves of her brother's admiration for Jane Bennet and is disdainful of Meryton society, driven by her vanity and desire for social elevation.
* '''[[George Wickham]]'''&nbsp;– Wickham is a charming but reprehensible cad. He has been acquainted with Mr. Darcy since infancy, being the son of Mr. Darcy's father's steward. An officer in the militia, he is superficially charming and rapidly forms an attachment with Elizabeth Bennet. He later runs off with Lydia with no intention of marriage, which would have resulted in her and her family's complete disgrace, but for Darcy's intervention to bribe Wickham to marry her by paying off his immediate debts.
* '''[[Mr. William Collins]]'''&nbsp;– Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet's distant second cousin, a clergyman, and the current heir presumptive to his estate of Longbourn House. He is an obsequious and pompous man, prone to making long and tedious speeches, who is excessively devoted to his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
* '''[[Lady Catherine de Bourgh]]'''&nbsp;– the overbearing aunt of Mr. Darcy. Lady Catherine is the wealthy owner of Rosings Park, where she resides with her daughter Anne and is fawned upon by her rector, Mr. Collins. She is haughty, pompous, domineering, and condescending and has long planned to marry off her sickly daughter to Darcy to 'unite their two great estates', claiming it to be the dearest wish of both her and her late sister, Lady Anne Darcy (née Fitzwilliam).
* '''Mr. Edward Gardiner and Mrs. Gardiner'''&nbsp;– Edward Gardiner is Mrs. Bennet's brother and a successful tradesman of sensible and gentlemanly character. Aunt Gardiner is genteel and elegant and is close to her nieces Jane and Elizabeth. The Gardiners are the parents of four children. They are instrumental in bringing about the marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth.
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* '''Georgiana Darcy'''&nbsp;– Georgiana is Mr. Darcy's quiet, amiable and shy younger sister, with a dowry of £30,000, and is 16 when the story begins. When still 15, Miss Darcy almost eloped with Mr. Wickham but was saved by her brother, whom she idolises. Thanks to years of tutelage under masters, she is accomplished at the piano, singing, playing the harp, drawing, and modern languages and is therefore described as Caroline Bingley's idea of an "accomplished woman".
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* '''Charlotte Lucas'''&nbsp;– Elizabeth's 27-year-old friend. She marries Mr. Collins for financial security, fearing becoming a burden to her family. Austen uses Charlotte's decision to illustrate how women of the time often married out of convenience rather than love, without condemning her choice.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Rothman |first1=Joshua |title=On Charlotte Lucas's Choice |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/on-charlotte-lucass-choice |magazine=The New Yorker |date=7 February 2013 |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref> Charlotte is the daughter of Sir William Lucas and Lady Lucas, neighbours of the Bennet family.
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* '''Colonel Fitzwilliam'''&nbsp;– Colonel Fitzwilliam is the younger son of an earl and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy; this makes him the cousin of Anne de Bourgh and the Darcy siblings, Fitzwilliam and Georgiana. He is about 30 years old at the beginning of the novel. He is the coguardian of Miss Georgiana Darcy, along with his cousin, Mr. Darcy. According to Colonel Fitzwilliam, as a younger son, he cannot marry without thought to his prospective bride's dowry.
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