Mr. Philips

Family: Philips · Role: uncle · First appears: Chapter 7

Mr. Philips is married to Mrs. Philips, whose sister married him; he had been their father’s clerk and succeeded him in the business. He visited his nieces, Catherine Bennet and Lydia Bennet, opening to them “a source of felicity unknown before.”

By chapter 14, he employs Richard but talks of turning him away.

Relationship record

Life events

• Mr. Philips considers dismissing Richard, while Colonel Forster may hire him.(Ch.14)
  • With: Mr. Philips Richard Colonel Forster
  • “my uncle Philips talks of turning away Richard? and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him.”
• Mr. Philips is promised an invitation to Mr. Wickham to dine with the Philipses.(Ch.15 · 📍 Mr. Philips’s house)
  • With: George Wickham Mr. Philips Mrs. Philips
  • “Some of them were to dine with the Philipses the next day, and their aunt promised to make her husband call on Mr. Wickham, and give him an invitation also”

Chapter 7

• married with Mrs. Philips “She had a sister married to a Mr. Philips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business”
• younger kin: Catherine Bennet “Mr. Philips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity unknown before.”
• younger kin: Lydia Bennet “Mr. Philips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity unknown before.”

Chapter 14

• servant: Richard “Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Philips talks of turning away Richard?”

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