elizabeth bennet married fitzwilliam darcy in pride and prejudice.
elizabeth bennet married fitzwilliam darcy in pride and prejudice.
who did elizabeth bennet marry in pride and prejudice?
fitzwilliam darcy
abigail reynolds is the author of seven regency-set variations on "pride and prejudice". her pemberley variations series includes "mr. darcy's obsession", "to conquer mr. darcy", "what would mr. darcy do" and "mr. fitzwilliam darcy: the last man in the world". her modern adaptation, "the man who loved pride and prejudice", is set on cape cod.









































bella breen is the author of four variations on "pride and prejudice". "pride and prejudice and poison", "pride and prejudice and secrets", "forced to marry" and "the rescue of elizabeth bennet".
pride and prejudice
another major theme of austen scholarship has concerned the question of the "bildungsroman" (novel of education). d. d. devlin in "jane austen and education" (1975) argued that austen's novels were all in varying ways "bildungsroman", where austen put into practice enlightenment theories about how the character of young people can develop and change. the italian literary critic franco moretti in his 1987 book "the way of the world" called "pride and prejudice" a "classic" "bildungsroman", where elizabeth bennet's "prejudice" against mr. darcy is really "distrust" and that "she does not err due to a lack of criticism, but due to an excess, as bennet rejects anything that she is told to trust "a priori". moretti argued that a typical "bildungsroman" of the early 19th century was concerned with "everyday life", which represented "an unchallenged stability of social relationships" in a world that was wracked by war and revolution. in this sense, moretti argued that the education that bennet needs is to learn to accept the stability represented by the world around her in england, which is preferable to war and revolution to be found elsewhere in europe, without losing her individualism. in the same way, clifford siskin in his 1988 book "the historicity of romantic discourse" argued that all of austen's books were "bildungsroman", where the struggle of the characters to develop was mainly "internal" as the challenge to the characters was not really to change their onward lives, but rather their "self". siskin noted in henry fielding's popular 1742 novel "joseph andrews", that a young man working as humble servant, goes though much suffering, and is ultimately rewarded when it is discovered that he is really an aristocrat kidnapped by the romany (gypsies) when he was a baby. by contrast, siskin wrote that elizabeth bennet's paternity is not in question and there are not improbable strokes of luck which will make her rich; instead her struggle is to develop her character and conquer her "prejudice" against darcy, marking the shift in british literature from an "external" to "internal" conflict. alongside studies of austen as the writer of "bildungsroman" are studies of austen as a writer of marriage stories. for susan fraiman, "pride and prejudice" is both a "bildungsroman" concerning elizabeth bennet's growth and a marriage story that ends in her "humiliation" where she ends up submitting to mr. darcy. critics are badly divided over the question of whether the marriages of austen's heroines are meant to be a reward for their virtuous behavior as seen by wayne booth, or merely "good girl being taught a lesson" stories as seen by claudia johnson. stuart tave wrote that austen's stories always seem to end unhappily, but then end with the heroine getting married happily, which led him to the conclusion that these happy endings were artificial endings imposed by the expectations of an early 19th century audience.
reception history of jane austen