Mrs. Bennet: character portrait from Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Character profile

Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

Who is Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice? The excitable mother of the Bennet family, obsessed with marrying off her daughters and prone to melodramatic outbursts.

Also known as: the mother

Who Mrs. Bennet is

The excitable mother of the Bennet family, obsessed with marrying off her daughters and prone to melodramatic outbursts.

Relationships

Mr. BennetSpouses
Elizabeth BennetMother and daughter
Fitzwilliam DarcyDisliked neighbor
Mr. CollinsDisliked suitor
Charles BingleyMotherly interest
Kitty BennetMother-daughter
Lydia BennetMother-daughter

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