I must say that I am very impressed with Jennifer Becton as a writer! I ordered “Caroline Bingley” because I really liked “Charlotte Collins”. (Both books extend the P&P characters into their own stories.) I gave Caroline 4 stars but in my review I will give it a little more, so make it 4 ½ stars.

In P&P Caroline Bingley was definitely not a character we have no love lost for. She was a conniving snob from the beginning and remained so throughout the whole story. (Standard procedure for a More...

Caroline Bingley comes into her own--

Caroline Bingley retains all the often misguided feistiness she deployed in Pride and Prejudice, and yet author Jennifer Becton has for the most part convincingly pulled off an enchanting miracle by turning her into a sympathetic and worthy heroine. In P&P, Caroline did everything she could to keep her brother Charles from marrying Jane Bennet, who she considered unworthy of him, and she hoped to finesse a marriage proposal out of the proud and wealthy Da More...

I was drawn to this book because secretly, I've always sympathized with Caroline Bingley. Afterall, she saw Darcy first, she was friends with him first, and her brother was his best friend...didn't she have a right to feel she could be considered the obvious choice for his wife?
I thought Darcy's leaving her in the cold was a bit heartless. And, Jane Austen's treatment of poor Caroline as a villianous, hateful creature seemed harsh. She was the jilted maiden, wasn't she?

Thus, Jennifer Becton's bo More...

Caroline Bingley. For Austen fans, even hearing the name can bring up feelings varying from annoyance to revulsion. For me, the feeling I get is kind of the same as the one that shimmies up your spine when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard. That “Oh my gosh, why? Make it stooooop” feeling. Caroline is one of the best examples of what I call “Austen’s smack-able characters,” and she could write some pretty darn smack worthy characters (pretty much everyone in Sense and Sensibility for More...

Caroline Bingley. The name stirs up intense emotions in anyone who loves Pride and Prejudice. Caroline is the closest thing that story has to an antagonist. She partnered with Darcy in separating Bingley and Jane Bennet, “involving them both in misery of the acutest kind,” and she constantly belittled Elizabeth to Darcy.

I admit I was surprised then to learn that Caroline was to be the subject of Jennifer Becton’s second Personages of Pride and Prejudice novel. Why would she choose to write about More...

Caroline Bingley is a woman most people care little about...okay, dislike a lot. So why write a story about her? Why indeed! Jennifer Becton did a marvelous job writing this story. We see Caroline for who she really is. We see her struggle to get back what she lost or what she had hoped to gain, without having to admit doing anything wrong.

The story starts when Caroline is banished, by her brother Mr. Bingley, to the home of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Newton, in Northern England. More...

Caroline Bingley... Pour les spécialistes de l’oeuvre de Jane Austen, ce personnage détestable est l’équivalent d’une Nelly Olson dans La Petite Maison dans la Prairie... Autant dire une véritable teigne. D’elle, on devine qu’elle est jolie, qu’elle a des manières et une éducation raffinée, mais elle a aussi un but pour lequel elle est prête à tous les sacrifices : s’élever dans la société.

A la fin d’Orgueil et Préjugés, Monsieur Darcy épouse son grand et unique amour, Miss Elizabeth Bennet, pou More...

Qui n'a pas adoré détester Caroline Bingley, que se soit en lisant Orgueil et Préjugés ou en visionnant l'une des adaptations existantes. Pourtant, j'ai toujours eu le sentiment que Jane Austen ne dédaignait aucun de ses personnages. Elle les critique certes, montrent leurs mauvais côtés mais ils sont souvent également le fruit de leur époque ou de leur éducation et leur créatrice me parait prompte à leur pardonner ou tout au moins, à avoir pitié d'eux. Et c'est plus exactement ce que je ressen More...

Caroline Bingley, “handsome, clever, and rich,” with no home of her own and an unpleasant disposition, seemed to desire nothing more than to be accepted into the upper echelons of society; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very much to distress and vex her. Because of her humiliating and unsuccessful pursuit of Mr. Darcy, and her refusal to apologize for her part in separating Jane and Bingley, Caroline loses her brother's good opinion and is banished from his home and care More...

Last year I read Jennifer Becton's debut novel, Charlotte Collins and I fell in-love. This was one of my favorite books last year. Then Becton released the short story, Maria Lucas and once again I enjoyed it thoroughly. So when Jennifer Becton announced she was writing a novel about Caroline Bingley I was thrilled. For those who are not familiar with Caroline Bingley, she is the sister of Mr. Bingley who spends most of Pride and Prejudice pining for Jane Bennett, Elizabeth Bennett's older siste More...

My English review

On surfe beaucoup en ce moment sur la vague Orgueil et Préjugés. En effet, on retrouve de nombreux livres narrant tel ou tel personnage, nous permettant d’en apprendre plus sur ce roman mythique ou en tout cas de l’approfondir. Je l’avoue avec une grande honte, non… je n’ai pas lu Orgueil et Préjugés ! Mais j’espère avoir l’occasion de le faire un jour, d’autant plus que je l’ai dans ma PAL en version originale (d’autant plus que le livre est très joli). Mais ! Oui parce que je More...

Maybe it’s the English teacher in me, but I love finding literary elements in literature. Caroline Bingley is flowing with imagery, similes, static and dynamic characters and much more. Without giving too much away, I loved how certain events and conversations at the beginning of the novel foreshadowed what was to come. I found this kept me in anticipation for these scenes to play out. For instance, Caroline’s paid companion, Mrs. Pickersgill, has all of the manners of a genteel lady, yet she is More...

I really enjoyed this book. The character stays true to original but still continues to learn and grow.

**Spoilers below**

The character we disliked in P&P is still pretty much the same. She does learn her lesson the hard way by having the very thing she did to hurt Jane and Elizabeth happen to her. She was asked to apologize to Elizabeth but thankfully she can’t bring herself to do it. I think if she had it would have changed the character into something she wasn’t. She and Elizabeth came to More...

Do we really know the real Caroline Bingley? Well this story gives us insight to Miss Bingley and the understanding of what makes her so hautie to the Bennets. Ms Becton truely does a great service to dipicting her character. What makes her tic and though we all love to hate Miss Bingley she is very much understood. A lot of books make her character out to be extremely evil and mad! This story I feel is more a true rendering of the Character Jane Austen created. She is not sugar coated nor is sh More...

I wanted to like Caroline Bingley, but although I enjoyed reading this book and think Becton does an admirable job writing in an Austen-like style, I still found it hard to sympathize with Caroline throughout most of the book. The beginning drug a little for me, and I actually put it aside for awhile after reading the first few chapters to read other books. I am glad I decided to finish it, as I enjoyed the character development of the main characters throughout the rest of the book. I would rec More...

Caroline Bingley is banished to the north country where her Mother resides upon refusing to apologize to Elizabeth Bennet. Once there her machinations to climb back into society's good graces begins. Except Mr. Rushton, a wholly unsuitable tradesman, might throw her plans awry.

The character Caroline Bingley was the one that I found most easy to hate in Pride and Prejudice. She was wholly despicable. So I was eager to see how she'd come off as a heroine in her own book.

She is still conniving an More...

AUTHOR: If you have read Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, this book begins where P&P ends. If you are not familiar with Jane Austen’s books I suggest you get busy reading. Not at all boring.

GENRE: Historical romance

SETTING: 19th century England

CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS: Caroline is the sister of Charles in Pride and Prejudice. All she wants is to marry into high society. She looks down her nose at practically everyone except for those that are considered the upper class. She is rude and More...

Loved this book. I really felt like I was reading a novel by Jane Austen. Jennifer Becton really knows how to write. I was a little nervous reading a book about Caroline Bingley, I truly hated her in Pride and Prejudice. But this book really gave me a good understanding of her. And I know Jane Austen has to approve. Also, loved loved loved Mr. Rushton. He is definitely on par with Mr. Darcy. And he doesn't have the pride thing getting in his way. Good book, I highly recommend it.

This is one of those times that I really think Goodreads should give us the ability to rate with 1/2 stars, I would have given this book 3 1/2 stars if I could.

"Caroline Bingley" is another very good "Pride and Prejudice" sequel by Jennifer Becton. In the spirit of Becton's other novels, "Charlotte Collins" and "Maria Lucas," the author chooses to focus not on the typical ELizabeth and Darcy stories, but on what happens to some of the other characters after the original story ends. Without givi More...

While I absolutely loved Charlotte Collins by Jennifer Becton, I enjoyed Caroline Bingley’s story. Jennifer stayed true to Caroline’s character from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. You still wanted to smack Caroline and tell her to grow up, but she has to find her own way, and Ms. Becton did a very nice job.

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Wow - I liked this much more than I was expecting! Is it Austen? No. Is it true to Austen? Well, sorta. Is it a fun read? Yes! Will it make you like Caroline a bit more? Definitely!

Well-written and decently plotted, I do recommend this to Austen fans - a non-Bennett/Darcy sequel is pretty rare, especially a pretty good one.

I was a little skeptical at first about diving into this book, but I have to admit I enjoyed it a great deal. Of course nothing compares to Austen, however this was nicely done. I have always imagined what might happen next to Caroline Bingley. In that imagining I have also pictured myself slapping her a few times and calling her a deceitful cow. This brought her from slappable to more of a hey-let's-get-tea-and-hang-out kinda gal. Liked.

I would say this was a little closer to 3 1/2 stars but pretty close to four. The continuing story of Caroline Bingley from Pride & Prejudice. It is actually pretty interesting reading her justifications for her behavior and actions. Add a little love/hate story and its a fun read.

Jennifer Becton continues in the style and mood of P & P to give us a glimpse into the workings of Caroline Bingley's mind, the woman we all love to hate. Miss Becton does so beautifully with discriptive language and dialogue that fit my expectations of the period.

I did not like Caroline Bingley anymore during the first few chapters of this book than I did at the end of P & P. But then slowly my opinion of her changed. I began to understand why she said and did certain things. And then More...

I am not sure if I should give three or four stars to this since within the First two chapters I knew who Caroline would end with but I went with 4 because of entertainment value. Caroline's character is very well portrayed but I am not sure some one can be that dense to her own feelings.

Another decent story by Becton. A bigger challenge this time -- take an unpleasant P&P character and make you interested enough to persevere and find out where this is going! Caroline has quite the journey to self-understanding and, in the end, to love.

Its so interesting to read a story from the perpective of a generally unlikeable character... I came to understand why Caroline acted the way she did but still hoped she might become a little more pleasant! Overall a fun story.

I loved the Mr & Mrs Darcy continuation series by Carrie Bebris and I hoped this would be similar. I was disappointed. This Caroline is not a likable character and this continuation story was, quite simply, boring.

I love this author.... particularly her ability to take secondary characters of Austen and give them life.... it gives depth to Austen's original story and expands the Austen world. Very good and stays within plausible character substance...