How old is Mr Darcy meant to be?

Fitzwilliam Darcy is a wealthy twenty-eight-year-old man. He is very fond and protective of his younger sister, Georgiana Darcy.
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What was Mr. Darcy age gap?

James' Death Comes To Pemberley novel, Elizabeth Darcy is 26 and Mr. Darcy is 34 (6 years after Austen's P&P novel)...
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Is Mr. Darcy an only child?

He is the eldest child and only son of the late George Darcy and the late Lady Anne Darcy.
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How old is Lizzy Pride and Prejudice?

Elizabeth is the second eldest of the five Bennet sisters of the Longbourn estate, situated near the fictional market village of Meryton in Hertfordshire, England. She is 20 years old by the middle of the novel.
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When was Mr. Darcy born?

Eh? Well, Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, so you could say Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen's romantic hero, was born 207 years ago. Or that he's “eight and twenty”, as the character is, in the novel.
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What does 5000 a year mean in Pride and Prejudice?

These percents refer to the fact that the income the landed gentry earned came from investing their money in secure government bonds. Therefore, Bingley is described as having "four or five thousand a year" because Mrs. Bennet is not sure of what his 100,000 pound inheritance is earning. Similarly, Mr.
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Why did Mr. Darcy stretch his hand?

It's credit to Joe, because he doesn't miss a trick and he's so alive to things, and he saw me do it in a rehearsal take and I remember him just going, “Get that!” So they just did an extra shot on the hand. Yes—this is the power of a bold acting choice and a thoughtful actor!
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How old is Caroline Bingley?

Bingley's 22 years, as she was unmarried and had a dowry of £20,000, and if she was 23 or older, she'd be quite the old maid. Even with her terrible personality, many men would gladly marry her for her pretty face and big dowry well before her 21st birthday. I too think that it was not mentioned in the book directly.
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How old is Lydia in Pride and Prejudice?

She is sister-in-law to Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy. She is a distant cousin of William Collins, a clergyman. Lydia was born in June and is 15 at the start of the novel.
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Are the Bennets middle class?

Bennet and her siblings, they were members of the middle class.
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How tall is Mr. Darcy?

At around 5 ft 11in (180cm) the fictional character was slightly smaller than some of the stars who have played him. Firth famously played Mr Darcy opposite Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth Bennet in a 1995 BBC adaptation of the novel.
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When did Mr. Darcy start liking Elizabeth?

But in the 2009 movie his first interest perked up the first time he saw her at Lucas Lodge. Then there were little things like when he helped her into the carriage, etc. that gave you clues as to how he was slowing falling in love. I'd say that for the two of them, affection started at the town ball.
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What is Mr. Darcy first name?

Fans of the novel probably know that Mr. Darcy's first name is Fitzwilliam, that Elizabeth Bennet can power-walk and trade witticisms with the best of them, and that the novel of manners was Jane Austen's second, after Sense and Sensibility.
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How much would Mr. Darcy be worth today?

Darcy an annual income of $986,276 in terms of what he could buy in modern times. This calculation would place him today in the 99.42 percentile.
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Who has the most pride in Pride and Prejudice?

Darcy is the character who is most obviously proud and prejudiced. On the one hand, his pride is understandable due to his wealth and high social position.
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What age is Pride and Prejudice set in?

The Georgian Era

Between 1797, when a young Jane Austen began work on what would become Pride and Prejudice, and 1813, when the novel was published, the French Revolution was fought, Marie Antoinette was guillotined and Napoleon rose to power and conquered most of Western Europe.
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How old is Mary Bennet in the book?

She is eighteen or nineteen years old during the events of the novel, younger than twenty-year-old Elizabeth and older than seventeen-year-old Kitty.
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How old is Mr Collins?

Background. Mr William Collins, 25 years old as the novel begins, is Mr Bennet's distant cousin, a clergyman, and the heir presumptive to Mr Bennet's estate of Longbourn. The property is entailed to heirs male, meaning that Mr Bennet's daughters and their issue cannot inherit after Mr.
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What age is Jane Bennet?

She is twenty-two years old.
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How old is Elizabeth Bennet in the movie?

Elizabeth Bennet, later Elizabeth Darcy, is one of the main protagonists in the story. At twenty years of age, she is the second daughter in the Bennet family.
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How old are all the characters in Pride and Prejudice?

Kitty says she's two years older than Lydia, which puts her at 17-18. Now that Kitty is established, the ages left between Kitty and Elizabeth at the beginning are 18 and 19. So Mary is either 18 or 19 at the start and 19 or 20 at the end.
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Is Miss Bingley in love with Mr. Darcy?

Miss Bingley feels jealous and very dislike Elizabeth because she knows that Mr. Darcy likes Elizabeth and Miss Bingley herself likes Mr. Darcy; however, Miss Bingley knows that her brother likes Jane so she has to show her respect to both of them.
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Does Mr. Darcy think Elizabeth is pretty?

When his friend points out Elizabeth “sitting down behind you,” Darcy replies, “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humor at person to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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Are there two endings to Pride and Prejudice?

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. moviegoers will see a decidedly different ending to "Pride & Prejudice" than the British version of the same film. The U.S. version ends with Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennet kissing her Mr.
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Why is Mr. Darcy attractive?

He's attractive because he's handsome and rich. The men at the assembly judge him to be “a fine figure of a man,” while “the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley.”
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