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  "slug": "pride-and-prejudice",
  "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
  "author": "Jane Austen",
  "language": "English",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bennet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The witty, reserved father of five Bennet daughters and husband of Mrs. Bennet. He owns Longbourn, which is entailed to his cousin, Mr. Collins; after Lydia elopes with Wickham, he searches for them in London. He agrees to the financial arrangements for Lydia’s marriage but remains angry with her until Jane and Elizabeth persuade him to welcome the couple. He consents to Elizabeth’s marriage to Darcy after learning of her love for him and Darcy’s help to Lydia."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bennet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The mother of the five Bennet daughters and wife of Mr. Bennet. Preoccupied with advantageous marriages, she is delighted when Jane becomes engaged to Bingley and Elizabeth to Darcy; she later takes pride in visiting her married daughters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bingley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A wealthy, good-natured young man who rents Netherfield Park and loves Jane Bennet. He renews his attentions to Jane, becomes her accepted suitor, and marries her; they later buy an estate near Derbyshire."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Morris",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The person who owns Netherfield Park and arranges its letting to Mr. Bingley."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elizabeth Bennet",
      "aliases": [
        "Lizzy",
        "Eliza",
        "Miss Eliza Bennet"
      ],
      "description": "The witty, perceptive second Bennet daughter and Jane’s close sister. Learning that Darcy secretly arranged Lydia’s marriage and paid Wickham’s debts deepens her affection for him; she accepts his renewed proposal, and they marry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jane Bennet",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Bennet"
      ],
      "description": "The eldest and notably beautiful Bennet daughter, who loves Bingley. They become engaged and marry; she remains close to Elizabeth, and the sisters live within thirty miles of each other."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lydia Bennet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The youngest Bennet daughter, lively and heedless, with a strong interest in officers. After eloping with Wickham, she marries him with Darcy’s help; their marriage becomes unhappy, and she and Wickham live extravagantly and often seek financial help from her sisters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kitty Bennet",
      "aliases": [
        "Catherine Bennet"
      ],
      "description": "A younger Bennet daughter who follows Lydia and shares her interest in officers. She improves while spending time with Jane and Elizabeth, away from Lydia’s influence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Bennet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Bennet daughter who pursues books, music, and solemn moral reflections. After her sisters marry, she is the only daughter still living at home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Long",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A local acquaintance who tells Mrs. Bennet that Netherfield has been let to Mr. Bingley. She has two nieces and later attends a dinner at Longbourn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir William Lucas",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A neighbour of the Bennets and father of Charlotte and Maria Lucas. Formerly a Meryton tradesman, he was knighted and is notably courteous; he accompanies Elizabeth and Maria to Kent and accidentally tells Darcy that Bingley’s attentions to Jane have raised expectations of marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Lucas",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Sir William Lucas’s wife and a neighbour of the Bennets. She is delighted by Charlotte’s engagement to Mr. Collins and offers help to the Bennet family after Lydia’s elopement."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charlotte Lucas",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Collins"
      ],
      "description": "The sensible eldest Lucas daughter and Elizabeth’s intimate friend. She accepts Mr. Collins for the security of a comfortable home and lives with him at Hunsford; she is glad of Elizabeth and Darcy’s match and leaves Hunsford temporarily when Lady Catherine’s anger makes the household uncomfortable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Darcy",
      "aliases": [
        "Darcy"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy gentleman, proud and reserved, and Mr. Bingley’s close friend. He secretly searches for Lydia, settles Wickham’s debts, buys his army commission, and arranges their marriage; he later renews his proposal to Elizabeth, whom he marries."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Hurst",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The husband of Mr. Bingley’s elder sister, Louisa Hurst. He is indolent and chiefly interested in eating, drinking, and cards."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louisa Hurst",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Hurst"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Bingley’s elder sister, married to Mr. Hurst. She joined Darcy in London to persuade Bingley away from Jane and knew that Jane was in London while Bingley did not."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caroline Bingley",
      "aliases": [
        "Miss Bingley"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Bingley’s unmarried sister, who helps keep his house and hopes Darcy will marry Georgiana. Jealous of Elizabeth, she tries to separate Bingley from Jane and later sends insincere congratulations on Jane’s engagement; after Darcy marries Elizabeth, Caroline resumes civility to retain access to Pemberley."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Bingley’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The late father of Mr. Bingley, who left him a large inheritance and had intended to buy an estate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Robinson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man at the Meryton assembly who asks Mr. Bingley which woman he considers the prettiest; Bingley names Jane Bennet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss King",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A young woman who dances with Mr. Bingley at the Meryton assembly. After inheriting ten thousand pounds, she attracts Mr. Wickham’s attentions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maria Lucas",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "One of the Lucas daughters, who dances with Mr. Bingley at the assembly. She accompanies Elizabeth and her father to Hunsford and is a guest at Rosings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Philips",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Bennet’s brother-in-law, married to her sister. He succeeded her father in his Meryton business and introduces his nieces to the militia officers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Philips",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Bennet’s sister and the Bennet daughters’ aunt. Her visits provide Kitty and Lydia with news of the officers, and she hosts the family and officers in Meryton; she later stays at Longbourn to comfort Jane during Lydia’s crisis."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bennet’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The late father of Mrs. Bennet, formerly an attorney in Meryton, who left her four thousand pounds."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bennet’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Gardiner"
      ],
      "description": "Mrs. Bennet’s brother, settled in London in a respectable trade. He and his wife welcome Jane and Elizabeth to their home in Gracechurch Street, take Elizabeth on a Derbyshire tour, and help search for Lydia. He finds Lydia and Wickham in London, negotiates their marriage, pays their debts, and secures Wickham’s commission."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Carter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A militia officer admired by Lydia Bennet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Colonel Forster",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A militia officer and Mrs. Forster’s husband. Trusted with Lydia in Brighton, he alerts the Bennets to her elopement with Wickham, searches for the pair, and assists Mr. Bennet and the Gardiners in trying to find them. Mr. Gardiner later asks him to assure Wickham’s Brighton creditors of payment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Jones",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The local doctor whom the Bingleys have sent for when Jane is ill at Netherfield."
    },
    {
      "name": "The footman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Bennet household servant who brings Jane a letter from Caroline Bingley."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Darcy",
      "aliases": [
        "Georgiana Darcy"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Darcy’s younger sister, a wealthy heiress with a fortune of thirty thousand pounds. Shy and gentle, she welcomes Elizabeth and the Gardiners to Pemberley; her nearly attempted elopement with Wickham remains a secret from the Bingley connections. After Elizabeth marries Darcy, Georgiana grows close to her as a sister."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Collins",
      "aliases": [
        "William Collins"
      ],
      "description": "Mr. Bennet’s cousin and heir to Longbourn, a clergyman appointed to the Hunsford living through Lady Catherine de Bourgh. He marries Charlotte Lucas and writes Mr. Bennet pompous letters condemning Lydia and cautioning the family against Elizabeth’s supposed match with Darcy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Catherine de Bourgh",
      "aliases": [
        "Lady Catherine"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy, high-ranking widow and Mr. Collins’s patroness, who appointed him rector of Hunsford. She lives at Rosings, is Darcy’s aunt and the sister of Lady Anne Darcy, and has one daughter, Miss de Bourgh. She tries to prevent Elizabeth’s marriage to Darcy, but eventually reconciles with them and visits Pemberley."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Lewis de Bourgh",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The late husband of Lady Catherine de Bourgh and father of their daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss de Bourgh",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s only daughter and heiress to Rosings and extensive property. She is pale, sickly, and slight, and is attended by Mrs. Jenkinson; her mother claims she was intended from infancy to marry Darcy, but he does not marry her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Collins’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The late father of Mr. Collins, described as illiterate and miserly; his strained relationship with Mr. Bennet had kept the cousins apart."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lady who supervised Miss de Bourgh’s education",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who oversaw Miss de Bourgh’s education and still lives with Lady Catherine and her daughter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman at Mr. Gardiner’s house",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who fell in love with Jane when she was fifteen while staying at Mr. Gardiner’s house in London. He wrote verses about her but did not propose."
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An employee of Mr. Philips whom Mrs. Philips says her husband may dismiss; Lydia expects Colonel Forster to hire him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Denny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A militia officer who returns from London with Mr. Wickham and introduces him to the Bennet sisters. He later tells the Forsters that he believes Wickham does not intend to marry Lydia, though he denies knowing their plan when questioned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wickham",
      "aliases": [
        "George Wickham"
      ],
      "description": "A handsome, engaging militia officer and son of the late Mr. Darcy’s steward. His account of being cheated by Darcy was false; after eloping with Lydia, he marries her when Darcy pays his debts and secures his commission. He remains extravagant and unfaithful in affection, and Darcy continues to assist his career for Elizabeth’s sake."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Jones’s shopboy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed boy working at Mr. Jones’s shop who tells Mrs. Philips that the Bennet sisters have left Netherfield."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nicholls",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Bingley’s cook, who is making white soup for the planned Netherfield ball."
    },
    {
      "name": "The late Mr. Darcy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mr. Darcy’s late father, a close friend of Wickham’s father and Wickham’s godfather. He supported Wickham’s education, intended him for the church, left him a legacy of one thousand pounds, and recommended that Darcy help advance his career. Darcy remembers him as benevolent and amiable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wickham’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The late Mr. Darcy’s steward and close, confidential friend, who managed the Pemberley estates. Darcy’s father supported his son’s education and intended to provide for him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man given the living",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who received the valuable church living that Wickham says had been promised to him by the late Mr. Darcy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Jenkinson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman who lives with Lady Catherine and Miss de Bourgh and attends Miss de Bourgh at Rosings. She tends to Miss de Bourgh’s comfort, and Lady Catherine says she helped place four of her nieces in governess posts."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Archbishop",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed church dignitary whom Mr. Collins imagines might disapprove of his attending a ball."
    },
    {
      "name": "The other officer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed militia officer who accompanies Mr. Wickham while he walks with Elizabeth and her sisters to Longbourn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Gardiner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Mrs. Bennet’s younger sister-in-law, an intelligent and elegant woman married to Mr. Gardiner. She is especially close to Jane and Elizabeth, cautions Elizabeth against imprudent attachment to Wickham, and helps care for her nieces during Lydia’s elopement crisis. She hosts Lydia and Wickham in London and later tells Elizabeth that Darcy arranged their marriage and paid Wickham’s debts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Colonel Fitzwilliam",
      "aliases": [
        "Fitzwilliam"
      ],
      "description": "Darcy’s cousin and a younger son of an earl, about thirty years old. He shares guardianship of Georgiana with Darcy, serves as an executor of Darcy’s father’s will, and confirms Darcy’s account of Wickham."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lady Metcalfe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman who called on Lady Catherine to thank her for recommending Miss Pope as a governess."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miss Pope",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A governess recommended by Lady Catherine to Lady Metcalfe, who calls her a treasure."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord ——",
      "aliases": [
        "Colonel Fitzwilliam’s father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed earl, the father of Colonel Fitzwilliam and uncle of Mr. Darcy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Younge",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The woman who supervised Georgiana Darcy’s London establishment and accompanied her to Ramsgate. Darcy says she had a prior acquaintance with Wickham and helped him persuade Georgiana to agree to elope; she was removed from her position afterward. She later gives Darcy information that helps him locate Lydia and Wickham in London."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Wickham’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman, the wife of Wickham’s father and mother of George Wickham. Darcy says her extravagance kept the family poor and left Wickham’s father unable to fund his education."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two Harrington sisters",
      "aliases": [
        "Harriet Harrington",
        "Pen Harrington"
      ],
      "description": "Two young women invited by Mrs. Forster to a dance. Harriet was ill, so her sister Pen attended alone."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chamberlayne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man in the militia officers’ circle who was dressed in women’s clothes by Lydia, Kitty, and their companions as a joke at Mrs. Forster’s dance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Pratt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A militia officer who attended the dance where Chamberlayne was disguised in women’s clothes. Lydia asks Mrs. Forster to excuse her for missing a dance with him when she elopes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Forster",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The very young wife of Colonel Forster and Lydia Bennet’s close friend. She invites Lydia to accompany her to Brighton and receives Lydia’s note announcing her departure."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Pemberley housekeeper",
      "aliases": [
        "Mrs. Reynolds"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly, respectful housekeeper at Pemberley who has known Darcy since he was four. She praises him as generous, kind to his tenants and servants, and devoted to Georgiana; she also recognizes Wickham as the late steward’s son and recalls him as having turned wild."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Pemberley gardener",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed gardener at Pemberley who meets the Gardiners and Elizabeth at the house and is surprised to see Darcy arrive."
    },
    {
      "name": "The chambermaid",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed chambermaid at the Gardiners’ inn who tells Elizabeth that the Darcy family is not at Pemberley."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Pemberley steward",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed estate steward whose business brings Darcy to Pemberley ahead of his travelling party."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Gardiner and Mrs. Gardiner’s children",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Four unnamed children, two girls aged six and eight and two younger boys. They are left in Jane’s care during the Gardiners’ travels and later welcome Elizabeth enthusiastically back to Longbourn."
    },
    {
      "name": "The inn waiter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed waiter at the inn where the Bennet sisters meet on their journey home; Lydia dismisses him before sharing her news."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Annesley",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A genteel, agreeable woman who lives with Georgiana Darcy in London. At Pemberley she helps carry the conversation during Elizabeth and Mrs. Gardiner’s visit and later remains with Georgiana while Darcy visits Hertfordshire."
    },
    {
      "name": "The postilions",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed postilions who drove Lydia and Wickham toward London and may have witnessed the pair changing carriages near Epsom."
    },
    {
      "name": "The hackney coachman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed driver whose coach carried Lydia and Wickham after they left their chaise at Clapham; Mr. Bennet hopes to trace him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Hill",
      "aliases": [
        "Hill",
        "The housekeeper"
      ],
      "description": "The Longbourn housekeeper, a servant trusted to attend Mrs. Bennet during the family’s distress over Lydia. She brings Jane and Elizabeth news that an express letter has arrived from Mr. Gardiner and later shares in the family’s relief at Lydia’s impending marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sally",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed servant whom Lydia asks in her note to mend a tear in her muslin gown."
    },
    {
      "name": "The butler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Longbourn servant who directs Jane and Elizabeth to Mr. Bennet when they seek him after Mr. Gardiner’s letter arrives."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Stone",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man with whom Mr. Gardiner is called away on business on Lydia’s wedding morning."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Goulding",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A local man whom Lydia encounters in his carriage on her wedding day; she displays her ring so he will know she is married."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sarah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Longbourn servant summoned by Mrs. Bennet to help Jane dress when Mr. Bingley arrives unexpectedly."
    },
    {
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      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman who works at Netherfield and tells Mrs. Philips that Mr. Bingley is returning; she orders meat for his arrival. The text identifies her as Netherfield’s housekeeper."
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