Questions tagged [pride-and-prejudice]
Questions related to Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, published anonymously as "By the Author of Sense and Sensibility". Use this tag with the [jane-austen] tag.
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Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
In the book Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins comments that Lady Catherine de Bourgh's daughter will one day inherit the de Bourgh fortune. From previous chapters, we know that the five daughters of ...
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What does Mr Darcy refer to when objecting to Mr Bennet's "want of propriety"?
In Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, he writes:
The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison of that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost ...
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