Second daughter of Longbourn
Elizabeth Bennet
- Fortune
- £1,000
- Temperament
- Wit, principle, a dangerous tongue
She will not be grateful for an insult dressed as an offer. The culture says a woman of small fortune should accept a good settlement. Elizabeth treats marriage as a question of esteem — and very nearly loses everything for it.
“I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”