Lizzy is more than capable of shutting her down in person, but she can't do anything about the horrible things Miss Bingley says behind her back, like her "blowsy" hair 8. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome.
Her nose wants character—there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.
Criticizing other women to make yourself look good apparently had the same effect in the early nineteenth century as it does today: it just makes you look bad. Sorry, Caro. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Jane Austen.
Bingley had to listen to his sister more because of personalities, not necessarily being older. Kristen wrote: "Interesting question. Apr 06, AM. Bingly seemed younger than either of his sisters. That might also explain his willingness to be influenced by others. It might have been, at least in part, habitual. As to Charlotte being more of Lizzie's friend than Jane's I'm not surprised. Both Lizzie and Charlotte were smarter, more quick thinking, women than the optimistic "always see the good in things" Jane.
Personally I've wondered if Ms. Austen had a reason for using her name for that daughter Apr 06, PM. It might have been, at least i Bingley was younger than Miss Bingley.
About Jane, I guess Jane Austen was very pretty herself. Wickham, a very handsome young man, the charactor comes from Jane Austen's brother.
So I think Jane Austen and her brother were all very good looking. Apr 07, PM. Sandy wrote: "Looks like the book doesn't say who was elder or I missed it. If so, then Miss Bingley was not young at that As Mr. Bingley was the oldest and only? Maybe as a young child he would listen to his sister because she was older, but at the age they are in the book his sister would be expected to listen to him.
It's for the same reason Edward VI became king after his father died. Even though his sisters later Mary I and Elisabeth I were older, they only ascended to the throne after Edward's death. John-alan wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Looks like the book doesn't say who was elder or I missed it.
Jun 05, AM. Still, two years apart isn't that far. My sister is two years younger than me, and she still keeps up with me pretty well. So I'm sticking to for Darcy. But I can see the reasoning behind this, and it really is sound, so I applaud you!
It's probably safe for Darcy to be about 27 or 28, so both our answers are at least VERY close if not the actual answer. Isn't it only about one year apart? As the living became vacant two years ago Wickham is 26 and Darcy 27 at the beginning of the book and both are one year older at the end of it. Jun 07, AM. Again, no one really knows the age gap. Our estimates are probably pretty accurate and one of them is correct - but only Jane Austen can tell for sure.
She hasn't dropped many hints, and then there isn't enough evidence to back up only one claim. You could be right, but then, so could I.
So let it rest and be satisfied with our estimates. Sep 03, AM. In reference to Bingley's age: I'm currently listening to Pride and Prejudice and I've just heard the part where it reads: "Bingley had not been of age 2 years when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House Yeah, I'm sure that Charles and Jane are 22 or 23 in the book.
But I also think that since the year Darcy writes the letter is the second year of their acquaintance, Ramsgate was the summer of , the same autumn of which year he met Elizabeth. Not only does that explain his grump, it gives us more information about his age and Georgiana's. Georgiana is 16 by the time he writes the letter, which makes him at least His line in the second proposal indicates that he's at least 28, probably right then, as he speaks.
So is my guess for Darcy, making Georgiana Elizabeth is , making her seven years Darcy's junior, and Georgiana twelve years.
I agree with Mae above about Lydia's, Kitty's, and Mary's ages. Jul 19, AM. A cursory search online modern definition, obviously , leads me to believe Wickham is the same age or older - give or take a few months - than Darcy. It would make sense if he were older, too, he could never have got the upper hand on Darcy Darcy being so smart and all as kids.
This makes him worse in my eyes, since he would be about thirteen years older than Lydia Bennet at the time of their elopement. Sep 22, PM. I wanted to know the ages of the characters in the story and I found this thread. If the ages listed above are all correct then I think the casting crew of the movie aced their homework.
Rosamund Pike 26 Elizabeth Bennet Keira Knightly 20 Mary Bennet Talulah Riley 19 Kitty Bennet Carey Mulligan 20 Lydia Bennet Jena Malone 20 Charles Bingley Caroline and her sister are often described jointly. They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
Caroline has many opinions about who qualifies as an accomplished woman, presumably because she considers herself accomplished.
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