Mrs. Bennet

Also known as: Mrs Bennet / her mother / his sister / mamma / mother / my mother / our poor mother / the mother / their mother / your mother · Family: Bennet · Role: mother · First appears: Chapter 1

Chapter 1

married with Mr. Bennet 〈Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.〉
child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.〉
child: Jane 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.〉
child: 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.〉
with Mrs. Long (Mrs. Long visited and informed Mrs. Bennet about Netherfield Park.) 〈Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.〉

Chapter 2

child: Kitty Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply; but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. “Don’t keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven’s sake!〉
child: Mary Bennet (Mary is one of the daughters addressed as “girls”.) 〈“What an excellent father you have, girls,” said she, when the door was shut.〉
child: Lydia Bennet 〈Lydia, my love, though you are the youngest, I dare say Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the next ball.〉
friends with Mrs. Long (Mr. Bennet refers to Mrs. Long as Mrs. Bennet's friend.) 〈Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.〉

Chapter 3

child: 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.〉
child: Lydia 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.〉

Chapter 7

child: Catherine 〈I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.〉
child: Lydia 〈I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.〉
married with Mr. Bennet 〈When they get to our age, I dare say they will not think about officers any more than we do.〉

Chapter 9

child: Elizabeth Bennet (parent->child) 〈“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”〉
parent: Jane Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.〉

Chapter 12

child: Jane 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.〉

Chapter 13

married with Mr. Bennet 〈said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were at breakfast the next morning〉
child: Jane Bennet 〈she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters〉
child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters〉

Chapter 15

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married;〉

Chapter 17

child: Jane 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 18

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈Her mother only scolded her for being nonsensical.〉

Chapter 19

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?〉

Chapter 23

child: Jane 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.〉
rivals with Lady Lucas 〈Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was, though Mrs. Bennet’s sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.〉

Chapter 24

child: Jane 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.〉
child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈“True,” said Mr. Bennet; “but it is a comfort to think that, whatever of that kind may befall you, you have an affectionate mother who will always make the most of it.”〉

Chapter 25

siblings with Mr. Gardiner 〈On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came, as usual, to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.〉
siblings with Mrs. Gardiner 〈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

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈You know my mother’s ideas as to the necessity of constant company for her friends.〉

Chapter 29

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈“Your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters.”〉

Chapter 33

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈When she thought of her mother, indeed, her confidence gave way a little;〉

Chapter 37

child: Catherine Bennet 〈but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?〉
child: Lydia Bennet 〈but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?〉

Chapter 40

siblings with Mrs. Philips (Mrs. Bennet explicitly calls Mrs. Philips her sister.) 〈I told my sister Philips so the other day.〉

Chapter 42

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈at home she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle〉

Chapter 46

child: Lydia Bennet 〈Our poor mother is sadly grieved.〉

Chapter 47

child: Lydia Bennet 〈blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must be principally owing.〉

Chapter 49

child: Jane Bennet 〈Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports〉

Chapter 53

child: Catherine Bennet 〈Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went to the window--she looked--she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down again by her sister. “There is a gentleman with him, mamma,” said Kitty;〉

Chapter 54

child: Elizabeth Bennet 〈He was on one side of her mother. She knew how little such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make either appear to advantage.〉

Chapter 55

child: Jane Bennet 〈My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come--Mr. Bingley is come.〉
child: Catherine Bennet 〈Come here, my love, I want to speak to you,” took her out of the room.〉

Chapter 59

with Fitzwilliam Darcy (Darcy is Mrs. Bennet's intended son-in-law.) 〈But the morrow passed off much better than she expected; for Mrs. Bennet luckily stood in such awe of her intended son-in-law, that she ventured not to speak to him, unless it was in her power to offer him any attention, or mark her deference for his opinion.〉

Chapter 60

siblings with Mrs. Philips 〈Mrs. Philips’s vulgarity was another, and, perhaps, a greater tax on his forbearance; and though Mrs. Philips, as well as her sister, stood in too much awe of him〉

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