This is because the most common response from the kind, Austen-loving members of the public who filled out our survey was that they didn’t remember half of these people, even though they had thought they were very familiar with P&P, and now they’re starting to question everything they hold dear.įear not, good readers! You haven’t been accidentally reading the abridged version all these years – it’s just that some of the characters on our list are very obscure indeed. We are, however, going to look at the exact opposite end of the scale: the least recognisable figures in the novel. So we’re not even going to talk about them. And readers of the novel may be shocked and appalled to discover that… While we’re not going to release the full list of rankings just yet, I can assure you all that we can now say with confidence, for the first time in literary history*, who the main characters in Pride and Prejudice are. Two weeks ago we sent out a call to fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, to come answer a survey on how they rate the importance of the characters in the novel.
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