Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 11 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 11
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 11, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: When the ladies removed after dinner Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared. Their powers of conversation were considerable.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 11 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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