pride and prejudice

• five


  Number of social classes in the time of Pride and Prejudice
• Jane


  oldest of the Bennet sisters
• entailment


  House and Property goes to the nearest male relative after a death
• aristocracy


  Highest social and economic level
• curate


  Priest on a wealthy person's estate
• gentry


  synonym for Aristocracy
• Jane Austen


  author of Pride and Prejudice
• dowry


  money given by the bride's family to contribute to the marriage
• Mr. Bennet


  "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" was said by whom?
• Longbourn


  village where the Bennets live
• Netherfield


  Charles Bingley is renting this place.
• Meryton


  town where the soldiers are stationed
• Rosings


  Estate where Lady Catherine de Bourgh lives
• Pemberley


  Mr. Darcy's estate
• Brighton


  party town where Lydia gets in trouble with Wickham
• Derbyshire


  County where Darcy's estate is located
• Elizabeth


  Mr. Bennet's favorite daughter
• Jane


  oldest Bennet daughter who never says anything bad about anyone
• Mary


  serious and bookish Bennet daughter who plays the piano
• Kitty


  Bennet daughter who copies whatever her sister does
• Lydia


  a huge flirt who runs off with a soldier
• Miss Younge


  Georgiana's governess when Wickham tried to seduce her
• Miss King


  Wickham wants to marry her for her money, but she moves away
• Mrs. Reynolds


  Darcy's housekeeper who loves and praises Darcy.
• Colonel Fitzwilliam


  informs Elizabeth about Darcy's separating Jane and Bingley; Darcy's cousin
• Colonel and Mrs. Forster


  trusted to take care of Lydia in Brighton, but failed.
• Anne de Bourgh


  contracted to marry Mr. Darcy from infancy
• Mrs. Gardiner


  Elizabeth's aunt, who warns her not to trust Wickham so quickly
• Mr. Gardiner


  invited to fish in the lakes at Pemberley
• Charlotte Lucas


  accepts Mr. Collins' marriage proposal out of necessity
• Mr. Collins


  The Bennet's home and property is entailed to this person.
• Caroline Bingley


  Charles' sister who disapproves of the Bennets
• Darcy


  paid Wickham's gambling debts
• Darcy


  paid Wickham to marry Lydia so her reputation would be salvaged
• Mrs. Bennet


  thrilled when Lydia marries Wickham at last
• Kitty


  will benefit from her sisters' good fortune in marriage
• Wickham


  said Darcy cheated him out of his rightful inheritance
• letter


  means of informing Elizabeth the truth about Wickham
• Mr. Collins


  Lady Catherine de Bourgh's curate
• Elizabeth


  Mr. Collins' first choice for a wife