Longbourn
The Bennet family's village home, whose liveliness and sense return with Jane and Elizabeth's homecoming.
Story so far
Longbourn is the Bennet family home, a mile from Meryton. After a week at Netherfield Park, Jane Bennet and Elizabeth Bennet return there. Mrs. Bennet receives them without pleasure because their early departure frustrates her marital calculations, but Mr. Bennet is genuinely glad despite saying little.
Their absence has made the evening circle markedly duller: it lost much of its animation and almost all its sense without Jane and Elizabeth. At home, Mary is deep in thorough bass and moral extracts, while Kitty and Lydia bring newer intelligence about the regiment, its dinners, a flogged private, and rumours that Colonel Forster may marry.
Appearance
It is the Bennets' home in a village one mile from Meryton. Its exterior, rooms, grounds, furnishings, and exact situation are not yet described.
Role
It is the Bennet family's domestic base, restored to its full social energy when the two eldest sisters return.
Relationships
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
- The Bennet family's village home, where the assembly's consequences are eagerly rehearsed.
- The Bennet family's village home, whose liveliness and sense return with Jane and Elizabeth's homecoming.