Pride and Prejudice Notes

The setting is Britain around the early 1800’s in the small town of Longbourn. To start off Mrs. Bennet mother of five young and unmarried daughters hears news of a wealthy gentleman moving into the nearby estate. The man is Mr. Bingley who lives at Netherfield Park who has a few exchanges with the Bennet parents shortly after moving in. He first encounters the daughters at a local ball where he dances with Jane more than once, which is a big deal. Darcy gives some rude comments about Elizabeth so she begins to dislike him right away along with his sisters. Gossiping with the Lucas family the women decide Darcy is too hubris to bother with. Some details on how the Bennet property cannot be passed to the girls but to a male heir. Jane is soon invited to the Bingley house but gets ill riding on horseback in the rain.
Her flu makes stay for longer than she anticipated; Elizabeth walks there in the mud to stay with her sibling. Darcy continues to be rude and arrogant toward the Bennets for their lack of wealth. The other ladies in the family come to visit their sisters at the Bingley house. One ask if he'd be willing to host a ball and he wants to but after everyone is healthy. Elizabeth continues not to dance with Darcy whom she despises while Miss Bingley seeks his attention. The audience is informed that Mr. Collins the heir to the Bennet house will visit them. Collins goes on about Lady Catherine de Borough and her family which bores the hosts. Lydia starts to wander off to talk to the officers especially Wickham who she takes an interest in.
Lizzy explores into why Darcy and Wickham don't get along to discover the cruelty of how Darcy's father was leaving Wickham money to join the clergy but found a way to keep his entire dad's money for himself. At a ball the girls inquire for more information about Wickham but only get handed down info originating from Darcy. Collins attempts to propose to Lizzy but she turns him down nicely. Miss Bingley also sends a letter to Jane about Bingley marrying Miss Darcy while they're out of town; meanwhile Collins gets engaged to the Lucas girl instead.
The Gardiner's relatives of the Bennets invite Jane to travel with then to raise her hopes. Along the way Gardiner realizes Elizabeth and Wickham are interested in each other but knows Wickham is a broke ass. Charlotte Lucas and Collins get married in London and Wickham goes off to try to wed the wealthy heiress Miss King.
After London Elizabeth agrees to follow the Gardiners to the countryside by where they used to live. The group along with Lady de Brough and Sir William Lucas go to Rosings the giant and elegant mansion in Hunsford. Lady Catherine constantly insults the Bennet women for not having a proper teacher growing up and lacking in talents, money, and skill. After going to Rosings several times a cousin to Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliams becomes fixated with Lizzy. Darcy tries but fails epically to wed Elizabeth as she grows furious for him ruining and admitting to sabotaging Bingley and Jane's affairs.
More information about Bingley and Jane begins to sway Lizzy into less hate for Darcy as he explains the two are still in love; more facts surface from Darcy about Wickham who Lizzy regrets trusting and she comes closer to liking Darcy. Most of the family a few weeks after come home but the younger daughters Kitty and Lydia want to go to stay with the regiment in Brighton for the summer. By summer Lydia is off to find a soldier husband and Elizabeth is going with the Gardiners to tour Derbyshire and Pemberley.
While at Pemberley the home of Darcy the housekeeper tells them of how much of a good boy Darcy was growing up. Randomly Darcy arrives and sees the group he invites them to dinner which he, Bingley, and Miss Darcy will be at the consent. At the table Miss Bingley like always makes jabs at the Bennet family as a whole but Lizzy deflects these. Near the end there is a private conversation where Miss Bingley once again slanders Lizzy behind her back but Darcy just ignores it and comments in Elizabeth's beauty.
Dyer letters from Jane to Elizabeth warn of Wickham seducing Lydia out of wedlock so Darcy, Lizzy, and the Gardiners must hurry back to get them married. After the hysteria it becomes more likely the two will marry considering some letters and Mr. Bennet searching for them in London. Wickham and Lydia seal their love and get married potentially making the other women less desirable.
Darcy and Elizabeth are now both evenly attracted to each other and she would accept if he proposed once more. As the story nears the end the possible marriage seems unstoppable. However Lady Catherine objects greatly toward the notion her relative Darcy marrying so low. Jane also is concerned but Lizzy assures her she truly loves Darcy. By the end the two are joined and most of the bad blood spilt between the many families is forgotten and everyone including Lady Catherine is contempt.