Other Figures — Minor Figures

23 figures from Pride and Prejudice who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Mr. Jones

apothecary · first appears ch.7

ch.8 · with Jane Bennet “it was settled that Mr. Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet were not decidedly better.”

children · first appears ch.42

ch.42 · cousins with Jane Bennet “The children, two girls of six and eight years old, and two younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cousin Jane, who was the general favourite”
ch.42 · guardian: Jane Bennet “The children, two girls of six and eight years old, and two younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cousin Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for attending to them in every way--teaching them, playing with them, and loving them.”

Jane's admirer · first appears ch.9

ch.9 · admired: Jane Bennet “there was a gentleman at my brother Gardiner’s in town so much in love with her, that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.”

housekeeper · first appears ch.43

ch.43 · employer: Fitzwilliam Darcy “‘He is the best landlord, and the best master,’ said she, ‘that ever lived.’”

servant · first appears ch.8

ch.8 · employer: Charles Bingley “while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.”
ch.44 · employer: Fitzwilliam Darcy “There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant, who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.”

captain · first appears ch.7

ch.7 · with Lydia Bennet “Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day”

young woman · first appears ch.39

officer · first appears ch.39

ch.47 · with Lydia Bennet “Pray make my excuses to Pratt for not keeping my engagement, and dancing with him to-night.”

father of Charles Bingley · first appears ch.4

ch.4 · child: Charles Bingley “Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.”