Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 47 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 47
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 47, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: “I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,” said her uncle, as they drove from the town; “and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter. It appears to me so very unlikely that any young man should form such a design against a girl who is by no means unprotected or friendless, and who was actually staying in his Colonel’s family, that
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 47 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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