Tag: vanity

You Might Relate to Mary Bennett, but You’re Not Supposed to Imitate Her

Mar 31, 2017

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by

harmamae

in Jane Austen

Mary Bennett gets a lot of good press. In Pride and Prejudice, she’s one of heroine Elizabeth Bennett’s three younger sisters, and she’s described as the bookish one. Maybe because readers of Pride and Prejudice tend to be bookish as well, we tend to feel the story overlooks her, and write multiple blog posts and…