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A balance between marriage based on sexual attraction alone (imprudent) and self-interested marriage (mercenary), a happy marriage is based on affection and esteem, or gratitude. [133] If the characters experience strong feelings (Elinor Dashwood, Fanny Price, Anne Elliot) or even romantic love (Brandon for Marianne, Darcy for Elizabeth), it's ...
Fitzwilliam Darcy Esquire, generally referred to as Mr. Darcy, is one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.He is an archetype of the aloof romantic hero, and a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet, the novel's protagonist.
Elizabeth and Mr Darcy by Hugh Thomson, 1894. Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family. Elizabeth is the second child in a family of five daughters.
The Gardiners are the parents of four children. They are instrumental in bringing about the marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth. Georgiana Darcy – 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 ...
Lady Catherine was the sister of Lady Anne Darcy, mother of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Georgiana Darcy. The sisters were the daughters of an earl and their brother is the sitting earl during the events of the novel. Thus she and her sister are always styled as Lady Catherine and Lady Anne, as their marriages to a knight or baronet (Austen never ...
Elizabeth Darcy (née Bennet) is the second of the Bennet daughters, being 20 years old at the beginning of the novel and 21 by the end. Like each of her sisters, Elizabeth has an allowance/pin money of £40 per annum.
Receiving a surprise proposal of marriage from Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth refuses him, finding the manner of his proposal insulting and unworthy of a gentleman. Stung by her refusal, Darcy writes a letter to Elizabeth addressing her accusations against him of influencing Bingley against Jane and ruining Wickham's prospects.
Pride & Prejudice-fiction. The following is a list of literary depictions of and related to the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.As 100 protagonist-focused sequels were noted in 2013 [1] and many more titles have been published since then, it is limited to entries at least mentioned by a notable source.