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 …
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