Jane Austen

I assume you are referring to the scene from the 2005 film, in which Darcy makes his unsuccessful proposal to Elizabeth.

The bridge and the temple are at Stourhead, which is part of the National Trust, and so can be visited. They are a bit less than 40 km, or a bit less than 20 miles, southeast of Bristol in Warminster, Wiltshire.

Mr. Bennet thinks that Kitty and Lydia are silly because they never think of anything serious or important. All they worry about is boys, parties, and balls. They spend a lot of time giggling and flirting.

Lady Catherine has cherished the hope that Darcy would marry her own daughter, Anne, for Anne's entire life. When she heard that Darcy might have proposed to Elizabeth, she wanted to find out the truth of the matter, and prevent a marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy. So she confronted Elizabeth on the subject.

If Lydia marries Wickham, then Elizabeth will be closely related to a man Darcy detests. If Lydia fails to marry Wickham, then Elizabeth will be a member of a disgraced family. Either way a connection between Darcy and Elizabeth is also a connection between Darcy and a scandal.

Lizzy is already aware of the enormous differences between her situation and Darcy's. She is poor and he is rich. In England of the time, that was regarded as a reason for them not to be married, because marriage was a way to form alliances and increase wealth. Darcy has commented on this. Her family is not well bred by Darcy's standards, and Darcy has commented on this also. She has already turned down a marriage proposal by Darcy, and rather angrily. She regards the attraction Darcy has for her as probaby very weak to begin with. Lydia's elopement, in her view, is just a final straw.

At first, Lizzy is incredulous - she simply cannot believe it is possible that Charlotte would marry Mr. Collins. When the truth sinks in, she becomes disgusted with Charlotte for doing such a thing. Finally, with a little help from Jane, she accepts the idea, though with some continuing regrets.

He criticized her mother's and younger sisters' behavior, and, while professing his love and asking her to marry him, said his affections would be against his family's and friends' wishes, AND his own better judgement!

Her name is Mary King. We do not see a lot of her.

She first appears as a young woman who dances with Bingley, in Chapter 3.

Later, in Chapter 26, we find that she has acquired a fortune of ten thousand pounds, and that Wickham has given up courting Elizabeth for her. Elizabeth realizes when this happens, that she is not seriously attached to Wickham, as she can view the whole without much regret.

Mary King is mentioned once again in Chapter 36, when Lydia tells Elizabeth that she has been taken away to Liverpool by her uncle, and so Wickham's intentions toward her have come to an end.

I think it is because Elinor is Sense and she ends up making the passionate unconventional husband (the exiled Edward) and Marianne is sensibility and she ends up with the very practical choice in Colonel Brandon.

I took it to mean the opposite, as 'sensibility' in Jane Austen's time meant romantic ideas, of which Marianne has plenty, and 'sense' refers to Elinor's practicality - she is the levelheaded one in the family, whereas Marianne sometimes lets her feelings run away with her. Colonel Brandon, like Marianne, has strong emotions and is not afraid of showing them, and he shares her love of the arts. Also, he truly loves her, which has to make him a good choice. In the novel, Mrs Jennings describes the Colonel as a good match for Marianne because "she's handsome and he's rich".

Jstor.org and Blooms Literature have some great secondary sources!

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The book ends with a chapter telling what happens to all the main people. Lizzy and Darcy marry, Jane and Bingley move to an estate about thirty miles away. Lady Catherine refuses to have anything to do with them until Lizzy talks Darcy into writing he. Lydia asks for favors. Mr. Bennet likes to visit Pemberley when he is not expected. And so it goes on.

The movies generally end with the marriage between Lizzy and Darcy, or possibly a brief scene showing their happy marriage state.

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During the Regency, friends would exchange small gifts at Christmas or Twelfth Night. These tended to be useful items or homemade tokens of remembrance. They might be accompanied by a riddle or short poem, like the needle bag Jane gave to her niece Caroline in 1792, so she would remember her.

Lizzie marries Darcy, and Jane marries Bingley.

We learn a little about what happens with other characters, as well. Bingley and Jane buy an estate near Pemberley. Lizzy and Georgiana become very close. Lydia and Wickham get bored with each other. Kitty moves to Pemberley and improves greatly, but Mary stays home. The Gardiners become Darcy's favorite relatives. And, believe it or not, though Lady Catherine has a fit and refuses to talk with the Darcys, Lizzy gets Darcy to reestablish the relationship with patience and perseverance.

Lydia shows no remorse for anything she does in the entire novel.

Pride and Prejudice has about 123,880 words. The page length will vary from book to book, but the Barnes and Noble classics version has 375 pages, not including the endnotes and comments at the end.

It is clear that Wickham is a fortune hunter, a man who is out to marry a wealthy woman for her money. In fact Wickham needs money badly just to cover his debts. Lydia has no money, but Wickham is marrying her. Clearly someone is providing Wickham with money, and Mr. Gardiner is the logical person to do so.

At that time, the Napoleonic Wars were under way. A quarter to a third of all the young men in England were going off to war, and a large number of them would never return. Women from good families could not get jobs except as governesses. If they did not have money, they had to marry well or become dependant or impoverished. There was a lot of competition for husbands. Wickham had nearly got away with marrying Georgiana Darcy and getting her 30,000 pounds. He had also nearly married Mary King with her 10,000 pounds. If he kept his act up, running away from his debts, he was very likely to find a wife with a similar amount of money, so a marriage to Lydia required such an amount.

Mr. Bennet knew that Mr. Gardiner had a family interest in seeing Lydia married and further scandal prevented. He also knew that Mr. Gardiner had a lot of money. He had no idea that Darcy would have any reason to provide for Lydia.

Darcy refused to pay wickham some money from an inheritance.

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Wickham accused Darcy of refusing to comply with his father's dying wish to give Wickham a living as a parish pastor on Darcy's estate. Wickham never claimed he had been any money as an inheritance.

What actually happened was that Wickham refused to be ordained as a clergyman, which meant he was not qualified to be a pastor. He asked Darcy for the money equivalent of the living, and he was given this. In lying to Elizabeth, he claimed he had wanted to be a clergyman, but was prevented from doing so. He also neglected to say he had been given an equivalent value of money instead.

Elizabeth Bennet

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Two things.
At that time, titles and family residences was automatically inherited by the oldest male heir. Special bequests were made for the women, especially dowers for the girls who had to be married off. In many case, if the deceased was rather poor he entrusted his wife and daughters or smaller sons to the care of the wealthier members of the family.
In some cases, even if there were no sons (like in the Bennet family), the property was entailed. This means that the ancestor from whom Mr Bennet had inherited the house had specifically asked that it be passed to the male next-of-kin, thus barring any of the Bennet girls from the property. Furthemore, in the case of an entailed property even the widow was to be thrown out of the house (like in "Sense and Sensibility").

According to the book, Mr. Collins was "yesterday informed by a letter from Hertfordshire". That is all the information we receive. Hertfordshire is where the majority of the book takes place, and where Longbourn is located. It could've been from any of the neighbors, but especially might've been from Mrs. Collin's parents at Lucas Lodge.

I'd say high school and up. Unless you have a very good, intelligent thinking reader who can understand complex vocabulary, if this were the case I'd say 7-8th grade. But the book is appropriate for all ages, no profanity or vulgarity whatsoever.

Darcy's housekeeper was Mrs. Reynolds.

In the book, Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins writes Mr. Bennet, advising him to "throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offence."