Jane Bennet

Also known as: Jane / Miss Bennet / her sister / the eldest Miss Bennet / your elder sister / your eldest sister / your sister · Family: Bennet · Role: daughter · First appears: Chapter 1

Chapter 1

parent: Mr. Bennet 〈They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he: “they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈Lizzy is not a bit better than the others: and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.〉
siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Lizzy is not a bit better than the others: and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.〉
siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈Lizzy is not a bit better than the others: and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.〉

Chapter 3

siblings with Mary Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.〉
siblings with Catherine Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.〉
courtship with Mr. Bingley 〈Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice.〉

Chapter 4

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him.〉
admirer: Charles Bingley 〈Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.〉

Chapter 5

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet (Jane is identified as the eldest Miss Bennet, while Elizabeth is addressed as Eliza in the surrounding passage.) 〈“Oh, you mean Jane, I suppose, because he danced with her twice. To be sure that did seem as if he admired her--indeed, I rather believe he did--I heard something about it--but I hardly know what--something about Mr. Robinson.” “Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson: did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson’s asking him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question, ‘Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt: there cannot be two opinions on that point.’”〉
admirer: Mr. Bingley (The passage explicitly says that Bingley admired Jane.) 〈“Oh, you mean Jane, I suppose, because he danced with her twice. To be sure that did seem as if he admired her--indeed, I rather believe he did--I heard something about it--but I hardly know what--something about Mr. Robinson.”〉

Chapter 6

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.〉
admirer: Mr. Bingley 〈It was generally evident, whenever they met, that he did admire her〉
admired: Mr. Bingley 〈Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him〉

Chapter 8

admirer: Mr. Bingley 〈His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing;〉
with Mr. Jones (Mr. Jones is to attend Jane as a physician.) 〈it was settled that Mr. Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet were not decidedly better.〉

Chapter 9

child: Mrs. Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.〉
siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engagement; and, when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball.〉
admirer: the gentleman at Mr. Gardiner's (admirer->admired) 〈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.〉
with Miss Bingley (Miss Bingley offers Jane hospitality and attention) 〈You may depend upon it, madam,” said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, “that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us.〉
with Mr. Bingley (kindness during Jane's illness) 〈Mrs. Bennet began repeating her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane〉

Chapter 10

friends with Miss Bingley 〈her great anxiety for the recovery of her dear friend Jane received some assistance from her desire of getting rid of Elizabeth.〉

Chapter 11

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈When the ladies removed after dinner Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room〉
courtship with Charles Bingley 〈He was full of joy and attention. The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed, at his desire, to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be farther from the door. He then sat down by her, and talked scarcely to anyone else.〉

Chapter 12

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.〉
parent: Mr. Bennet 〈But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle.〉
friends with Caroline Bingley 〈Miss Bingley’s civility to Elizabeth increased at last very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former.〉
with Charles Bingley (The master of the house is Charles Bingley; he urges Jane to remain as a host.) 〈The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her--that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.〉

Chapter 13

parent: Mr. Bennet 〈This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and five daughters at once.〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters〉
siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters〉
siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters〉
cousins with Mr. Collins 〈I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins〉
admirer: Mr. Collins 〈But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.〉

Chapter 15

siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈Lydia’s intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten: every sister except Mary agreed to go with her;〉

Chapter 17

friends with Caroline Bingley 〈The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and repeatedly asked what she had been doing with herself since their separation.〉
friends with Louisa Hurst 〈The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and repeatedly asked what she had been doing with herself since their separation.〉
courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of their brother;〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet chose to consider it as given in compliment to her eldest daughter, and was particularly flattered by receiving the invitation from Mr. Bingley himself, instead of a ceremonious card.〉

Chapter 21

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere?〉
courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Miss Bingley sees that her brother is in love with you and wants him to marry Miss Darcy.〉

Chapter 23

parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her impatience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she should think herself very ill-used.〉

Chapter 24

parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈“O that my dear mother had more command over herself! she can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him.〉

Chapter 25

elder kin: Mrs. Gardiner 〈Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with her Longbourn nieces. Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a very particular regard.〉
siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth’s correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation.〉

Chapter 26

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of triumphing in her better judgment, at my expense, when I confess myself to have been entirely deceived in Miss Bingley’s regard for me.〉
elder kin: Mr. Gardiner 〈I will endeavour to banish every painful thought, and think only of what will make me happy, your affection, and the invariable kindness of my dear uncle and aunt.〉
courtship with Charles Bingley 〈She would not even wish for any renewal of his attentions.〉

Chapter 27

with Caroline Bingley (Jane has given up the acquaintance with Miss Bingley.) 〈Mrs. Gardiner gave her the particulars also of Miss Bingley’s visit in Gracechurch Street, and repeated conversations occurring at different times between Jane and herself, which proved that the former had, from her heart, given up the acquaintance.〉

Chapter 28

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Every object in the next day’s journey was new and interesting to Elizabeth; and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment; for she had seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health, and the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight.〉

Chapter 30

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈My eldest sister has been in town these three months. Have you never happened to see her there?〉

Chapter 35

courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Bingley’s attentions to your sister had given rise to a general expectation of their marriage.〉

Chapter 36

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈He declared himself to have been totally unsuspicious of her sister’s attachment; and she could not help remembering what Charlotte’s opinion had always been. Neither could she deny the justice of his description of Jane.〉

Chapter 37

courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Mr. Darcy’s explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost. His affection was proved to have been sincere,〉

Chapter 38

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈It was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for Longbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy’s proposals.〉

Chapter 41

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈The elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments.〉

Chapter 42

cousins with the children 〈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〉
ward: the children 〈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.〉

Chapter 44

admirer: Charles Bingley 〈two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.〉

Chapter 46

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Since writing the above, dearest Lizzy, something has occurred of a most unexpected and serious nature; but I am afraid of alarming you--be assured that we are all well.〉

Chapter 48

elder kin: Mrs. Philips 〈Their other aunt also visited them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up〉

Chapter 49

siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈If we are ever able to learn what Wickham’s debts have been,” said Elizabeth, “and how much is settled on his side on our sister〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports〉

Chapter 51

siblings with Lydia Bennet 〈Their sister’s wedding-day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her probably more than she felt for herself.〉

Chapter 52

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈But, Lizzy, this must go no further than yourself, or Jane at most.〉

Chapter 53

siblings with Elizabeth Bennet 〈Both sisters were uncomfortable enough.〉
courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beauty of her sister rekindled the admiration of her former lover.〉

Chapter 54

courtship with Charles Bingley 〈His behaviour to her sister was such during dinnertime as showed an admiration of her, which, though more guarded than formerly, persuaded Elizabeth, that, if left wholly to himself, Jane’s happiness, and his own, would be speedily secured.〉

Chapter 55

courtship with Charles Bingley 〈Oh, my dear, dear Jane, I am so happy! I am sure I shan’t get a wink of sleep all night. I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing! I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was that you should come together.〉
parent: Mrs. Bennet 〈My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come--Mr. Bingley is come.〉
parent: Mr. Bennet 〈Jane, I congratulate you. You will be a very happy woman.〉

Chapter 56

engaged with Charles Bingley 〈One morning, about a week after Bingley’s engagement with Jane had been formed, as he and the females of the family were sitting together in the dining-room, their attention was suddenly drawn to the window by the sound of a carriage;〉

Chapter 61

siblings with Catherine Bennet 〈Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters.〉
with Charles Bingley (They remained together at Netherfield.) 〈Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth.〉

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