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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

With Jane away in London and no offer come of it, she laments her ill usage to anyone who will listen.

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.

Chapter LIX

News that Elizabeth is to marry Mr. Darcy overwhelms her past all sense with rapture.

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