Throwback Thursday: Mrs. Bennet Tells All

Mrs. Bennet Tells All, by Jack Caldwell

Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here.

One of the most enduring tropes in JAFF is the unfeeling, slightly cruel, and stupid Mrs. Bennet. Taking a bit from the novel and a lot from the P&P 1995 adaptation, there is a belief that Mrs. Bennet hates her second daughter and is ignorant about everything.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Remember, Mrs. Bennet disliked Mr. Darcy, a gentleman at least twice Mr. Bingley’s significance, because he snubbed he...