Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 12 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 12
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 12, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 12 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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