Person
Mrs. Bennet
The mistress of Longbourn, a woman of mean understanding and uncertain temper, whose whole business in life is to get her five daughters married. Every nerve is engaged in the cause, and her want of discretion is a trial to her elder girls.
Chapter III
She is in raptures after the assembly, where Mr. Bingley danced twice with Jane.
Chapter VII
She contrives to send Jane to Netherfield on horseback in threatening weather, delighted when the resulting cold keeps her there.
Chapter XX
She is thrown into a fury when Elizabeth refuses Mr. Collins, and appeals to her husband in vain.
Chapter XXIII
Charlotte Lucas's engagement to the future master of Longbourn leaves her ill with resentment over the entail.
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XLVIII
Lydia's flight sends her to her room in nervous fits, blaming everyone but the daughter she indulged.
Chapter LI
Once Lydia is married she is all joy again, the disgrace forgotten in the triumph of a daughter wed.
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