Opinion | Mary Is the Bennet Sister We Need
Briefly

‘Lizzy, along with her four sisters beautiful Jane, bookish Mary, impressionable Kitty, and Lydia, a shameless flirt are all on the Georgian marriage market.’
‘There seems to be something about Mary Bennet that the modern reader can't leave alone.’
‘She is vain, but flails in her efforts at self-improvement. She is judgmental of those around her whom we suspect she secretly envies.’
‘Could it be that we're obsessed with her because she is all of us?’
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