Jane Austen PRIDE AND PREJUDICE analysis | Who tells Lady Catherine de Bourgh about the Meryton rumours that Mr Darcy is likely soon to be engaged to Miss Elizabeth Bennet? John Sutherland, in his book ‘Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?’, argues that the culprit is Charlotte Lucas (a.k.a. Mrs Collins), & that she passes “the news…on to her husband [Mr Collins] and his patroness [Lady Catherine de Bourgh] over dinner at Rosings”. Who else might be the gossiper besides Charlotte Lucas? Colonel Fitzwilliam? Georgiana Darcy? Caroline Bingley? Mr Wickham? Mr Collins? Lady Lucas? Sir William Lucas?

In the video:
First, I go chronologically through the text to show who I think is the culprit.
Then, I consider Mrs Collins’s role in events, & perform a character analysis of Charlotte Lucas. I defend Charlotte against Sutherland’s charges that she wants “to poison Elizabeth’s prospects” of marrying Mr Darcy.

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