PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Setting The novel is set in the 19the century, principally in Longbourn, the Hertfordshire country town that is a mile from Meryton and twenty-four miles from London. It is a well-ordered, provincial town, filled with landed gentry and oblivious to the sweeping changes occurring outside the fringes of its narrow, circumscribed vision. CHARACTERS Major Characters Mrs. Bennet The match-making mother of five daughters. The wife of Mr. Bennet and "a woman of …showed first 75 words of 597 total…

…showed last 75 words of 597 total…daughter in the Lucas family who is plain, practical, intelligent and absolutely unromantic; she is a very close friend of Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Mrs. Bennet’s brother and his wife who are sensible and refined; Mrs. Gardiner is a confidante of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet. Mrs. Philips Mrs. Bennet’s sister, who is as vulgar and ridiculous as her sister; her husband is an attorney. Mary King An acquaintance of the Bennet family.