‘I love the wonderful and spirited Lizzie Bennett, with her wit and humour’
From the opening lines of “any man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife” comes one of the most memorable of novels in the history of the world.
Set in the early 1800s, in the fictional town of Merton, live the Bennett family, who are comfortably well off with a family of five daughters. However, there is one misfortune - there is no son. This is because the house must have a male heir, so the daughters can’t inherit it. Therefore, they have to marry or live off a male relative, or the final option was to become a governess, which wasn’t glamourous. Although it must have been possible to change the will so the women could inherit, it would ruin the story. Therefore Mrs Bennett, their silly empty-headed mother, is obsessed with marrying them off.
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