About The Author Jane Austen's elegant and witty social & comedy. Belonging to the minor gentry, the Bennets live at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Mother of five daughters, Mrs. Bennet's chief interest in life is their marriage prospects. At neighbouring Netherfield, the arrival of a rich young bachelor, Charles Bingley, his two sisters and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, fires Mrs. Bennet's aspirations. The comedy which ensues, of ardent declarations and proposals, of rejections, infidelities, elopement and finally - if you will believe it - happy marriages, has made this Jane Austen's most popular novel.