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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Basic Character Information

  • February 27, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Character Info, Pride and Prejudice
  • 4 Comments

Fitzwilliam Darcy is Pride and Prejudice's snobbish but good principled leading man. Basic Information: Age: 28 (probably), he mentions his age at the end of the novel (most likely in the month of October). However since he is referring to…

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Why is Jane Miss Bennet?

  • February 27, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Family, Regency Etiquette, Regency Society
  • 1 Comment

Because she is the most eldest, and therefore most important of the unmarried Bennet daughters. Speaking as an eldest child, I see the logic in this reasoning. As Miss Manners explains, the traditional rule was that if you addressed John…

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Elizabeth Bennet, Basic Character Information

  • February 26, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Character Info, Pride and Prejudice
  • 3 Comments

Elizabeth Bennet is Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's second daughter in age and beauty, her father's favorite child, and the story's main protagonist. Basic Information: Age: 20 (in March), Elizabeth's Hunsford visit begins in March and on its third day she…

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Jane Bennet, Basic Character Information

  • February 26, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Character Info, Pride and Prejudice
  • 0 Comments

Jane Bennet is the eldest Bennet daughter; she is kind, considerate, intelligent, beautiful, good with children, and, apparently, each parent's second favorite. Basic Information: Age: 22-23. In the second week of May, Lydia remarks that Jane is "almost three and…

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Mr. Bennet, Basic Character Information

  • February 26, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Character Info, Pride and Prejudice
  • 0 Comments

Mr. Bennet is the patriarch of the Bennet family and the owner of Longbourn, at least until his death. Basic Information: Given Name: Unknown Age: Unknown, at the beginning of the novel he is old enough to have been married…

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Mrs. Bennet, Basic Character Information

  • February 26, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Character Info, Pride and Prejudice
  • 1 Comment

Mrs. Bennet is the matriarch of the Bennet family, having no sons she is obsessed with marrying off her daughters as means of providing support for herself and them following her husband's death. Basic Information: Given Name: Unknown, however the…

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Welcome!

  • February 26, 2009
  • Melissa
  • Explanation, Introduction
  • 0 Comments

This blog is intended to help out writers of Regency Era Jane Austen fan fiction by providing an index of information on characters, places, history and anything else I think of that seems relevant. It is very much a work…

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