Mr William Collins
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Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. He is a distant cousin of Mr Bennet, a clergyman and holder of a valuable living at the Hunsford parso
Mr Collins proposes to Elizabeth Bennet.
Mr Collins "protested that he never read novels" drawn by Hugh Thomson, 1894
Cassandra Austen Jane Austen hires
Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel written and became the second to see print when it was published in 1813. A novel
Mr William Collins
…Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. He is a distant cousin of Mr Bennet, a clergyman and holder of a valuable living at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosings Park, the estate…
Title page of the first edition, 1813
Mr Darcy says Elizabeth is "not handsome enough to tempt him" to dance. (Artist: C.E. Brock, 1895)
Elizabeth tells her father that Darcy united Lydia and Wickham – one of the two earliest illustrations of Pride and Prejudice. The fashions reflect the engraving date (1830s), not the period of the novel.
In a letter to Cassandra dated May 1813, Jane Austen describes a picture she saw at a gallery which was a good likeness of "Mrs Bingley" – Jane Bennet. Deirdre Le Faye in The World of Her Novels suggests that "Portrait of Mrs Q" is the picture Austen was referring to. (pp. 201–203)