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Elizabeth Bennet is funny and lively, but has strong opinions. When she meets the arrogant Mr Darcy, she decides he is the last person in the world she could marry, while Darcy thinks she is not worth dancing with.

But Elizabeth and her four sisters need to marry well. If not Darcy, then will it be handsome Captain Wickham, cousin Mr Collins, or their rich neighbour, Mr Bingham?

Full of laughter and unforgettable characters, Pride and Prejudice is one of the best-loved novels in English literature.

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Jane Austen

Born in 1775, writer Jane Austen observes the society of her time with humour and sharp criticism, creating worlds so real we feel we could step into them.

Austen is most famous for six novels, which include Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice.

Jane Austen died aged 41 on 18th July, 1817 in the city of Winchester. She appears on the British £10.00 note, and is remembered in Poet’s Corner in London’s Westminster Abbey, taking her place with the greatest English writers.

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Welcome to Pride and Prejudice Information about the author, the story and the historical period.

The text with cultural details, brief summaries and glossary.

Brief descriptions of the main characters.

A wide variety of activities covering Cambridge Exam Certificates, State exams, 21st Century Skills and 2030 Agenda topics.

Pre-reading activities.

A final test to check what you remember.

A transcript of one of the most important scenes from the story to act out together in class.

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Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Retold by Elizabeth Ferretti

Illustrated by Mattia Pedrazzoli

Legenda

FIRST

Drama

INVALSI

Glossario

Esame di Stato

Agenda 2030

Costituzione e Cittadinanza

21st Century Skills

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four E. Gaskell, K. Chopin, K. Mansfield, V. Woolf, E.Wharton Portraits of Women Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Series Editors Paola Accattoli, Grazia Ancillani Art Director Daniele Garbuglia Graphic Design Emilia Coari Production Manager Francesco Capitano Photo Credits Shutterstock © 2021 ELi, Gruppo editoriale ELi

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ISBN

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Contents 6 Dossier 1 Jane Austen and Her Times –

Early Life

10 Characters 12 Pre-reading Activities 16 Chapter 1 Mr Bingley comes to Netherfield Park 22

Activities

26 Chapter 2 Jane Falls in Love 32

Activities

36 Chapter 3 Elizabeth Hears a Secret 42

Activities

46 Chapter 4 Mr Collins Finds a Wife 54

Activities

58 Dossier 2 Miss Austen Moves to Bath 62 Chapter 5 Elizabeth Visits Charlotte 70

Activities

74 Chapter 6 Elizabeth Receives Another Proposal 82

Activities

86 Chapter 7 An Embarrassing Meeting 94

Activities

98 Dossier 3 Through the Eyes of History 102 Chapter 8 A Family Scandal 110

Activities

114 Chapter 9 There is Better News 122

Activities

126 Chapter 10 Endings… and Beginnings 132

Activities

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Final Test

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Drama

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My Book

Dossier

Jane Austen and Her Times Early Life Quick facts Name: Jane Austen Born: in Steventon, England on 16th December, 1775 Died: Winchester, on 18th July, 1817 (aged 41) Education: French, music, writing, and other studies useful for young ladies Key works: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1817)

Jane Austen is famous for six novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1817, published after Jane died).

‘When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.’

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The beginning Jane was born on 16th December, 1775 in a small village about 60 miles to the west of London, called Steventon. She was the seventh of eight children. She had six older brothers, an older sister, called Cassandra (we’ll be meeting her later), and a younger brother.

‘I hope,’ her father said, when she was born, ‘that Jane will be a companion for her sister.’ He was right. Jane and Cassandra were very close and exchanged hundreds of letters during their lives.

Why Steventon?

Her father was the clergyman there – the head person at the church in the village.

Paper was handmade and expensive when Jane was alive.

This didn’t stop her writing hundreds of letters, and her books, of course. Ink was made with natural ingredients mixed with water. Jane wrote with a 'quill' made from a feather.

Jane Austen is known today as the first English woman to write great comic novels.

Jane Loves Laughter (…and Books) The Austen house at Steventon was a lively place. The children, including the girls, were encouraged to learn, be curious, and read anything they found in their father’s library. We know how much Jane read because her first works were inspired by some well-known books of the time. In fact, as a young girl, Jane recreated these popular works in a way

The family of Adrianus Bonebakker during a visit,

by Adriaan Bonebakker (1809).

The Austen home at Steventon, by Edward Austen-Leigh.

that was meant to make her readers laugh. She exaggerates, laughs at, and copies these writers. Her sister, Cassandra, did the drawings for these little books. In her early writing, Jane’s main characters are women. All are confident and make their own decisions, even if that sometimes goes against the social rules of the time. In these books, we get a sense of Jane, and how she saw herself.

A World of Money Jane lived in a world where travel was difficult and slow, and you were expected to spend time only with people of a similar wealth and social class to you. Her father and mother were not rich, but did have enough money to pay for a small number of servants. Jane was lucky. She had a large family. Some of her brothers did have money and good connections.

Jane wrote in Pride and Prejudice: ‘For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and to laugh at them in our turn?’

There were many rules for the people who worked in your house – your servants.

Servants had to enter a room silently, not talk in a loud voice, sing or shout.

They had to go up and down stairs quietly.

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The Austens were a family of writers.

Jane’s mother and two of her brothers wrote.

Together, the children created and performed plays at their home.

Education Girls were usually educated at home.

Jane and her sister Cassandra went to school for a short time, but they did most of their learning at home.

Jane and Cassandra were sent to school in Oxford in 1783, where Jane became very ill and nearly died, and then to Reading in 1785. Here, the sisters learned French, music, writing, and other studies useful for young ladies, such as dancing, religion, household management, languages and literature. Jane returned to Steventon in 1786, at the age of 11, and never left the family again, but that didn't mean she stopped studying. Her father, and a family friend, William Hastings, had a good library. Her brothers, James and Henry, also helped her with her studies.

‘My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation.’

Jane Austen, Persuasion 8

‘The Music Lesson’, by Louis Moritz, 1808.

Social connections Jane enjoyed dances and family visits.

Importantly for us, as we read her clever and funny pictures of life in nineteenth-century England, her family and friendships gave her lots of material for her novels. In fact, Jane Austen is admired today for her realism.

But it is important to remember that novels come from her writer’s imagination – characters and events are not exact copies, but made larger, and more foolish, for our entertainment.

Social connections were usually formed through meetings, usually beginning with morning ‘calls’ (with printed name cards sent from house to house), undertaken in the afternoon.

In her writing, Jane laughs at the foolish rules of her times, but with her usual honesty, she invites us to admit that we all laugh at each other.

Jane’s Inspiration Eliza Capot was Jane’s cousin. As a close friend of Jane’s, and a lady of the highest social circles, many people believe Eliza inspired Jane’s writing, both because she was confident and fashionable, and in the stories she told of her life.

Marriage In Jane Austen's time, women usually married between the ages of 23 and 27; after 27 women were 'too old' to marry.

If she had no wealth of her own, she could only live with her brother and his wife or work as a ladies’ companion, governess, or teacher on a minimal salary, living in poverty.

For Austen’s women, marriage

Thomas Langlois Lefroy, (1776-1869), aged about 20.

to a man with money was the only way for them to avoid poverty. But what happens if a woman and man fall in love without money? Tom Lefroy was a brilliant student of law who met Jane in 1790, but Jane’s family was not rich or important enough for his family. He was sent away and they never met again.

Dancing Dancing was an important part of life in the time of Jane Austen. In her novels, dances help us to get to know the characters, and laugh at some of them! They are also a way for us to understand who is more or less ‘important’ in society.

Rules of etiquette were strictly observed. A gentleman could not dance with a woman more than twice, unless he wanted to marry her. He had also to make sure that all ladies danced a few times. A lady had to accept all gentlemen who asked for a dance: if she refused one, she could not dance for the rest of the evening. Dances of this period were lively and full of energy. These included traditional English and Scottish ‘country dances’, and the fashionable French cotillion – where couples dance in fours.

Many people believe that Tom and Jane each provide some of the inspiration for both Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.

A gentleman could ask a lady to dance, but only if she had already been introduced to him.

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Characters Characters

JANE BENNET The oldest of the five Bennet sisters, Jane is beautiful and sweet, and never complains.

LYDIA BENNET Younger sister of Elizabeth and Jane.

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ELIZABETH BENNET The second of the five Bennet girls, Elizabeth is confident, intelligent and lively. Her family and friends call her Lizzy or Eliza.

MRS BENNET She’s very changeable.

She can dislike someone, and in the next minute, think they are wonderful.

MR BENNET Father of the five Bennet girls. Loving and kind, but sometimes weak.

What will his weakness lead to?

MR DARCY Rich, handsome, and extremely proud. He doesn’t like many people.

CHARLES BINGLEY A rich young man. He is easy to talk to, and is nearly always in a good mood.

LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH A rich lady, Darcy's aunt, who likes to tell everyone what to do.

MR COLLINS Cousin to Elizabeth who no one likes, but will he make someone happy?

MR WICKHAM A handsome army captain who everyone loves. But can he really be trusted?

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PRE-READING ACTIVITIES

Reading – Making Sense of Information 1

In this chapter, we meet the Bennet family – a husband and wife, their five daughters, and the girls’ aunt and uncle. Read the paragraph, then fill in the gaps in the family tree.

Mr Gardiner was a lawyer from the small town of Meryton. He had three children – two daughters and a son. The oldest daughter

Bennet, Phillips and Gardiner Family Tree Gardiner Mr _______________ married? (name unknown) Meryton (lawyer in _______________)

Mr Bennet married Miss _______________ (of (3)_______________)

Mr _______________ (a lawyer in Meryton) married Miss Gardiner (1)

(2)

Miss (Jane) Bennet (22 years old) _______________ (20 years old)

(6)

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Kitty (17 years old) _______________ (age unknown)

(7)

_______________ (16 years old)

(8)

married Mr Phillips, also a lawyer in Meryton. The youngest brother married, and went to live in London. The middle daughter, Jane, married Elizabeth Bennet’s father, and had five children. Their names, in order of birth are: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. The family lived in the village of Longbourn, about 1.7 km from Meryton.

Edward _________________ married (Aunt M. Gardiner) (trade; lived in (5)_________________) (4)

1 girl (8 years old)

1 boy (age unknown)

1 boy (age unknown)

1 girl (6 years old)

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Reading – Society and People 2

Pride and Prejudice describes life in England in about 1800.

Read the following sentences. Do you think they are true (T) or false (F)?

T F 1 People communicate with each other mostly through letters.

2 Everyone behaves in society in a very relaxed way.

3 If you have money, you are more important than other people.

4 Women from ‘good’ families are educated and are beginning to find jobs.

5 Travel is on foot, if you are poor, or by horse, if you have money.

6 Women had control of their money and could choose who to marry.

7 Dancing at parties, called balls, was one of the main forms of entertainment.

8 It didn’t matter if a young woman was not pretty, as long as she was intelligent.

Vocabulary – Adjectives 3

Look at the characters and short descriptions (pages 10-11), then choose the correct adjectives and phrases for each character. likeable bright unfriendly fun proud gentle beautiful patient quick rich (x2) sociable

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Elizabeth _____________

Jane _____________

Charles _____________

Darcy ____________

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Vocabulary Building 4

Before you listen to the first part of Pride and Prejudice, match the word with the definition.

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pride

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prejudice

3

single

4

fortune

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neighbourhood

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mind

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married

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rent

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impatiently

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servants pay money to the owner of a house to live in it the part of a person which makes you think and have feelings believing bad things about someone even if they are not true money, wealth when you feel you are better/more important than other people people paid to work in your home part of a town or country area not married not single crossly

Listening 2

5

Listen to the first part of Chapter 1. Then answer the following questions.

Who is coming to Netherfield Park? _____________________________________________________________________ 2 Write four facts that we learn about the new visitor. _____________________________________________________________________ 3 Why is Mrs Bennet interested in him? _____________________________________________________________________ 4 What does Mrs Bennet want Mr Bennet to do? _____________________________________________________________________ 1

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Chapter 1

Mr Bingley comes to Netherfield Park 2 Mrs Bennet tells her husband that Netherfield Park has been rented

by Charles Bingley, a rich, unmarried, young man.

Netherfield Park is a large country house near Longbourn, the village home of the Bennets, and the nearby town of Meryton.

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A single man of good fortune needs a wife. Everyone knows that. It does not matter what the feelings of this man himself are. When he arrives in a neighbourhood, the idea that he needs a wife is so clear in the minds of the surrounding families, that they are sure he will decide to marry one of their daughters before he has even met them.

‘My dear Mr Bennet,’ said Mrs Bennet to her husband one day, ‘have you heard Netherfield Park has been rented?’

Mr Bennet replied that he had not.

‘Do you not want to know who has rented it?’ cried his wife impatiently.

‘I do not mind hearing it,’ replied Mr Bennet.

This was good enough for Mrs Bennet.

‘Well, my dear, Netherfield Park has been rented by a young man of large fortune from the north of England.’

‘What is his name?’

‘Bingley.’

‘Is he married or single?’

‘Oh! Single, my dear. Of course! A single man of

Chapter 1 Mr Bingley comes to Netherfield Park

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large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!’

‘Why? How can his fortune affect them?’

‘My dear Mr Bennet,’ replied his wife, ‘how can you be so annoying! You must know I am thinking he will marry one of them.’

‘Is that his reason for coming to Netherfield?’

‘Of course not! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he arrives.’

‘I can see no reason to do that.’

‘But you are not thinking of your daughters.

Sir William and Lady Lucas are thinking of their daughters. They are determined to visit Mr Bingley soon, and they never visit anyone!’

‘Then I will write him a letter saying he can marry whoever girl he chooses, but I will tell him Lizzy is the best.’

‘You will not! Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome* as Jane, nor half so lively as Lydia.’

‘I can’t say much good about any of them,’ he replied, ‘they are all silly, like other girls; but Lizzy is quicker and brighter than her sisters.’

‘Mr Bennet, how can you speak of your daughters

Bingley does not have a family house or land, which means he is ‘new’ money.

He receives £4,000 per year from his family's money. That would be around £180,000 per year (€210,00) today.

Mrs Bennet thinks that Mr Bingley will marry one of her daughters.

Her husband enjoys upsetting Mrs Bennet.

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Mr Bennet knows from experience that these attacks of ‘nerves’ happen whenever Mrs Bennet is displeased.

Mr Bennet has been one of the first to visit Mr Bingley, but his wife knows nothing of it.

Women had little control over their own money at this time – their fathers, and afterwards their husbands, if they married, made their financial decisions.

in that way! You enjoy upsetting me. You do not care about my poor nerves*.’

‘You are wrong, my dear, your nerves are my old friends. I have heard you mention them for twenty years.’

‘Ah, you do not know what I suffer! It will be no use if twenty rich young men come, since you will not visit any of them.’

‘When there are twenty, I will visit them all.’

Mr Bennet pretended to be serious when he wasn’t, and joked when he was serious, and, although she had been married to him for twenty-three years, Mrs Bennet still did not understand him. She had few interests. The only business in her life was to get her daughters married, and to visit people for news.

The truth is that Mr Bennet was one of the first to visit Mr Bingley. He had always planned to, though he told his wife he wouldn’t. She knew nothing of it until the evening after.

‘I hope Mr Bingley will like that hat you are working on, Lizzy,’ Mr Bennet said to his second daughter.

‘We cannot know what Mr Bingley likes,’ said her mother unhappily, ‘since we are not to visit. Stop coughing, Kitty!’

‘I do not cough to amuse myself,’ replied Kitty miserably. ‘When is the next ball at Meryton, Lizzy?

We might meet Mr Bingley there.’ nerves anxiety

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Mr Bennet tells the family he has visited Mr Bingley.

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth is not handsome enough for Mr Darcy.

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On the day of the ball Mr Bingley is good-looking and likeable; Mr Darcy proud and disagreeable.

Mr Darcy is extremely rich. £10,000 is approximately £450,000 per year in today’s money (€525,00). Mr Darcy is a millionaire.

‘A fortnight.’

‘And we have no way to meet him before then. Oh! I am sick of Mr Bingley,’ cried his wife.

‘I am sorry to hear that,’ said her husband, ‘but why did you not tell me? If I had known you were sick of him I would not have visited him this morning.’

The astonishment of the young ladies was what their father wished; Mrs Bennet was the most astonished; though when the excitement was over, she said she had never doubted Mr Bennet.

‘How good it was of you, my dear Mr Bennet! But I knew I would persuade you in the end.’

‘Now, Kitty you may cough as much as you choose,’ said Mr Bennet. *** On the day of the Meryton ball Mr Bingley arrived with five other people. Mr Bingley was good-looking and likeable. His two sisters were attractive and fashionable, his brother-in-law was a gentleman, but his friend, Mr Darcy, had the attention of the room.

He was tall and handsome, and soon everyone knew he had a fortune of ten thousand a year.

However, while Mr Bingley danced and talked with everyone, Mr Darcy refused to meet anyone. Mr Darcy was rich, people decided, but that did not stop him being proud and disagreeable*. disagreeable not likeable

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‘Come, Darcy,’ Bingley said, ‘you must dance.’

‘It would be a punishment to dance with any of these women. You are dancing with the only handsome girl,’ said Mr Darcy, looking at Jane.

‘Oh! She is the most beautiful girl! But one of her sisters is sitting down behind you, who is very pretty.’

Darcy turned a cold eye to Elizabeth.

‘She is pretty, but not handsome enough for me.’

Elizabeth heard every word.

*** At home, Mrs Bennet told her husband about the ball.

‘Mr Bingley thought Jane was beautiful, and danced with her twice!’

But, Elizabeth thought, Mr Darcy was a very disagreeable man indeed.

On first impressions, Mr Darcy doesn’t like Elizabeth.

A man asking a woman to dance twice was a sign that he thought more highly of her than others in the room. Women sitting alone, like Elizabeth, were waiting to be asked to dance, which is why Bingley and Darcy discuss her.

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