Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the ‘illiberal’ minded, nerve suffering but hilarious Mrs Bennet. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Brenda Blethyn (2005), Alison Steadman (1995), Priscilla Morgan (1980), Mary Boland (1940) and Alex Kingston (lost in Austen).
Posts Tagged ‘Mrs. Bennet’
Sep 21
Lost in Austen’s Mrs Bennet
One of the many things I enjoyed about the Lost in Austen TV series was Alex Kingston’s Mrs Bennet. The show approached Pride and Prejudice with all the studied reverence of a rabid baboon at a prayer meeting but, while it obviously ran roughshod over the storyline, its approach to the characters was more complicated. [...]
Aug 11
Marriage in Pride and Prejudice; Explaining Mrs Bennet’s Obsession
Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet’s pursuit of advantageous marriages for her daughters is obsessive, unrelenting and often counter-productive. Mr. Bennet considers his wife’s schemes ridiculous, while Elizabeth has, of course, decided that she will marry only for love. Elizabeth, like the first-time reader of Pride and Prejudice, is shocked [...]