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Mary Bennet is the Austen heroine for the 21st Century


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One way to answer that question is to go back to Austen’s novel. Sandwiched between the two attractive, sensible elder sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, and the immature, younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia, Mary is an outlier. She is neither beautiful, nor silly. So, where does that leave her, and what did Austen intend to do with this character?


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