Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 7 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 7
Pride and Prejudice. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter advances the novel’s social and emotional action around Chapter 7, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 7 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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