![]() ![]() The business of her life was to get her daughters married its solace was visiting and news." Indeed, had this been Austen's previous novel, Sense and Sensibility, there probably wouldn't be anything more to be said, since that story, at least in its early sections, is reassuringly direct and decided in its narratorial judgments. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. ![]() After all, Austen's narrator signs off her beautifully pitched dramatic exposition of Elizabeth's parents with something that sounds like a categorical declaration: "Her mind was less difficult to develope. Read the opening chapter of Pride and Prejudice, and you might feel that there's nothing more to be said about Mrs Bennet. ![]()
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