pride and prejudice

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Setting The novel is set in the 19the century, principally in Longbourn, the Hertfordshire country town that is a mile from Meryton and twenty-four miles from London. It is a well-ordered, provincial town, filled with landed gentry and oblivious to the sweeping changes occurring outside the fringes of its narrow, circumscribed vision. CHARACTERS Major Characters Mrs. Bennet The match-making mother of five daughters. The wife of Mr. Bennet and "a woman of …

…daughter in the Lucas family who is plain, practical, intelligent and absolutely unromantic; she is a very close friend of Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Mrs. Bennet’s brother and his wife who are sensible and refined; Mrs. Gardiner is a confidante of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet. Mrs. Philips Mrs. Bennet’s sister, who is as vulgar and ridiculous as her sister; her husband is an attorney. Mary King An acquaintance of the Bennet family.