to ask who are you in pride and Prejudice?

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As I am watching the 1995 version on Drama and thinking I would have been cast as Mary for my teenage priggishness, pedantry, lack of social skill and personal charm, I wonder how other fine Mumsnetters would cast themselves should any other production be made however unlikely that may be.

My apologies if this has been attempted before or is a dreary New Years idea for entertainment. Naturally my curiousity extends to the male members of the cast and the lower classes who are ever with us.

Whilst I would love to be Lizzie or even Mr Darcy, sadly I think I'm probably Mrs Bennet.
Whilst I'm not trying to marry anybody off, because we home educate I do spend a large amount of time and energy scanning the internet and our local area for potential educational opportunities and encouraging my offspring towards them.

In my younger days, probably Lydia, unfortunately!

These days, probably Charlotte Lucas.

I'm definitely Miss Elizabeth Bennett for my beauty, charm & wit. Also I can only play the pianoforte "quite well".

Jane Bennet probably.

Lady Catherine De Burgh. Obviously.

I was going to say Mary, or perhaps Kitty. Watching the fun from the sidelines, but basically sensible. That best describes Charlotte though. And I do indeed encourage my husband to pursue his various interests.

Probably Mr Bennett. I'm impatient, sarcastic and don't tolerate fools very well. I'm also self centred and pretty lazy.

I'm Marianne in Sense and Sensibility according to my dad... and I do look a bit like Kate Winslet in the film!

Lydia, when I was younger.

I'm probably Mary, but aspiring to be Charlotte

Charlotte

I feel like Hill (was that her name?) The overworked house keeper at everyone's beck and call 🤩

I am so pleased we are assembling a good cast already. I am just starting the Mr Collins episode and realising I have so much in common. Poor Mary she was so obviously the appropriate partner for him - they would never be bored together - but was squashed by Charlotte getting in there so quickly. So hasty, so vulgar.

Who would you be in our non-binary times? Dare anyone take on Mr Darcy's persona and just £100,00 per year?

I'd like to say Elizabeth, but I'm probably more like Mr Darcy in his unreconstructed phase.

My father and I have always been likened to Mr Bennett and Elizabeth by family and friends. And frankly my mother bears a distinct resemblance to Mrs Bennett.

I don’t have any sisters though, only three brothers. I’d have liked to have a Jane. 😁

I think I am Charlotte.

Jane I think. Sweet, kind, people pleaser, pretty and a good marriage. Happy with her lot. Doesn’t go looking for drama. Unlike some of my relatives….

Definitely Mary.

I would love to be Lizzie, of course, but I'm more likely to be Mary or Charlotte Lucas.

Another Mary here. In a world of my own, lots of opinions that I'll share at length given very little encouragement, and with the social skills of a brick. Oh, and I sing badly in the car in front of my teenagers' friends.

Miss Bingley of course.

Like so many others I wish I could say Lizzie (possibly the most loveable female character in literature), but probably her father - cynical, sarcastic, a bit jaded and remote, but good at heart.

Well, I thought that I was Elizabeth but really I was Lydia. Now I’m probably Mrs Bennett.

Want to be Lizzy but am probably Mrs Gardiner - calm and always wanting to do the right thing.

A lot of people saying they are Mary has reminded me that I want to watch The Other Bennet Sister when it's on TV (I've not read the book)